little worries

[gode_abuzz]

Hello everyone,

I've been using Vantage for a few months now and it really is fantastic software!
I have a few questions now:

• When I want to open the depth of field settings, I can't get the drop-down menu, but just a small square that appears next to it (photo Dephoffield.JPG)
• When I render, I often have memory problems even though my computer is quite powerful I think (photos Setting card.JPG and Setting computer.JPG)

Thanks for your help!

Vincent

[Alexander.Atanasov]

Hi gode_abuzz,

The "small square" square problem is a bug that is logged in our system and will be fixed in future releases. As a current workaround you can disable "Popup dialogs for advanced camera parameters" in Edit>Preferences>UI - this will make the advanced settings for eg. Depth of Field, Resolution, Exposure, etc to show inside the camera tab and not float next tot the button.
The memory problems are probably because you are rendering at a very high resolution and/or you are working on a heavy scene with lots of geometry/textures. You can monitor the amount of VRAM that is currently being used for the scene in the lower-right corner of the statusbar(https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1dU7R...MeMbP1LSiij1gG). Additionally when doing a HQ render in the window there is a "Approx. GPU memory needed" label which informs you how much memory the current settings(mainly render resolution, denoiser and light cache contribute to its change) additionally need and will be colored in green/yellow/red depending on available resources.(https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1oLqg...Ltj_-OMXNJGO9O)

Best regards,
Alexander

[npg]

When you're near the limit of your video memory, try closing any apps that you don't need that might be using GPU memory such as web browsers. You can check which processes use this memory in Task Manager, in the Details tab after enabling the "Dedicated GPU memory" column. Note that there are a few system processes such as dwm.exe that you can't stop.

[gode_abuzz]

Hi,

big thanks for your help

Vincent