Raw file crash

[jophus14]

I have an exterior scene of a hotel with several 3D vehicles and 3D people in it. I can render the hotel alone at 2400 X 1800 with a time of only 40 minutes, but as soon as I put the people and vehicles in the scene Max crashes do to memory. I switched to saving as a raw image which seems to help with the memory issue, but then it says that it'll take something like 50 hours to calculate the LightCache alone. I would hate to have to render regions of each person and vehicle and then compile then in photoshop. Any ideas what to do? Thanks

[percydaman]

try changing from static geometry to dynamic in system rollout. Tried sending to backburner?

[jophus14]

I just tried playing around with my scene again and it keeps crashing. I had previously changed from static to dynamic thinking that it would help but it was a no go. All I have besides the main structure is 2 dosch vehicles and 6 Axyz people in the scene. All are 3D and not RPC, so what is the problem? The vehicles are pretty big files, but I think the people are quite small. The model renders fine without the vehicles or the people. When I try to render out at 1700 X 1100 as a RAW image the Light Cache calculation time go through the roof, plus I can tell that MAX is about to crash do to lack of memory (even though I have 2G).

[percydaman]

what ver. of 3dsmax/vray?

[jophus14]

Max 8, Vray 1.5

[victor.nsy]

maybe export your mesh? Never done it myself but have heard of it ...
vraymesh ... any expert? Compositing is a great way to go ... don't hate
methods that works.

best regards,
Victor NSY

[voltron7]

I've had dosch vehicles cause crashes. I recall it was a problem wth materials. good luck

[percydaman]

yup, gotta keep an eye out for raytrace mats on those dosch cars.