big size render

[gilicom]

I'm trying to render a test scene using that vray raw image type
Can somone please post a simple walkthrough how to use it?
My max keep crushing when i try a 10000*8000 render

[GALACTUS]

You might get away with rendering as large as you can and then rescaling the image in photoshop using a program called Genuine Fractals. link to software manufacturer below

http://www.lizardtech.com/products/gf/

Regards

Colin

[mike.edel]

I'm trying to render a test scene using that vray raw image type
Can somone please post a simple walkthrough how to use it?
My max keep crushing when i try a 10000*8000 render

first:
you'll have to set the max framebuffer (image size) to something very small - say 100x80 pixels
this is the major reason for the crashes - seems max always allocates the memory for this buffer, even if the max vfb is off and you write to disk directly (dont know the bit depth it allocates but assuming that the rendering is taking place in 32bit you get 300mb for the buffer alone)

then you enable the vray vfb and set the output res to the value you want

render to memory: off (save mem)

render to vray image file: on

generate preview: depends on the question if you want to get a preview

later you can open the vray raw file in the vray buffer (best would be to restart max first) and save to a more common format

ps: most of this is documented in the updated help files in your download account

ps2: since the memory of your machine fragments, it would be advisable to reboot first and try to eliminate background tasks

hope this helps,

Mike

[gilicom]

Hi mike
thx for the reply
I mannaged to render the pic into vray raw image file
How can i open it in the vray buffer?
i don't see any load option on it.

[thomes]

hi gilicom

you can load it over 3dmax -file-view image file and save it what you want

thomes

btw...did you break rendering with bigrender?

[trixian]

Makes me wonder though......would it not be more practical with a vrimg loader written for photoshop?

[mike.edel]

Makes me wonder though......would it not be more practical with a vrimg loader written for photoshop?

sure, care to write one?

[gilicom]

ouch, why do you use bmp?

big render script can only save as bmp.
about vray raw file format - I managed to render it but when i try to open it using view image in max i get an Image I/o error ... memory error and can't load it
Does anyone know about some kind of script or plugin for ps to load this file format?[/quote]