big size render

[gilicom]

I'm trying to render a pic 12000*9600 pixels and i get an
"unknown renderer error(initializing renderer)" when i send it through backburner
what do i have to do in order to render it at that size?
btw
this is an old project in we swiched back to vray 1.09.03.n on max 5.1
thx
Gili

[CCS]

First, what in the world are you going to do with an image that size??

Are you using stripes in backburner? That should solve it.

[gilicom]

Hi
my customers want to print it on 100*150 cm on a printer that does print 200 dpi.
I can't use stripes because this project is on max 5.1

[CCS]

Only other thing that comes to mind is doing it manually. Try render regions and select a few (4? 9?) overlapping areas. Just make sure to render to TGA or something with alpha, and stitch them back up in PS.

FWIW, I used to do plots that size to 200 or 300dpi until I ran an experiment one day and plotted it 100dpi. The difference was barely noticable. Now I never do anything higher than 100dpi if the sheet is bigger than 12"x18" or so.

[thomes]

there´s a freeware plugin called bigrender from Tomas Cayuela Caudevilla that´s splitting the image in definable buckets, renders these and put´s it together...it´s working with vray

thomes

http://web.salleurl.edu/~tomasc/

[gilicom]

What is the maximum size that max render?
I remember some posts about much larger renders...

[thomes]

32768 pixel if you have enough memory...but use bigrender...you can render up to 99999 pixel and poster the world...

thomes

[gilicom]

Hi thomes
thanks for the script
Its rendering now (5 of 25)
Hope it will turn out good , I'll keep you posted
Do you know which order does it render or is it a puzzle work in ps?

[thomes]

hi gilicom

i hope you did a test render... i imagine that there is a checkbutton to save every bucket...or the whole frame put together...

good luck hope you took the right one

thomes

[gilicom]

yes i did a test render ,it does save them as bmp sequence

still renderenig....

[mike.edel]

ouch, why do you use bmp?
will be around 300mb in size
i'd stick to png/tif for something that large (esp. the lossless compression of png is quite effective on cg images)

[thomes]

hi gilicom

hope you precalculated the lightsolution first.
maybe you get problems with the edges of the buckets...every bucket calculates its own solution...
it´s like with backburner, if you stripe a picture without precalculated illuminationmap...every pc calculates its own gi-solution and you get a possible hard edge because of no continuity of the lightsamples...

tell me...

thomes

[RErender]

If you use the vray image type you can render just about any size output

check here: http://www.chaoticdimension.com/foru...ray+image+size

[gilicom]

well
Big render script didn't finish the job
about vray image type, can't find it under max 5.1 and vray 1.09.03n
Does it exist on that version?

[mike.edel]

about vray image type, can't find it under max 5.1 and vray 1.09.03n
Does it exist on that version?

don't think so, only the newer builds have it