vray fur

[devin]

I've been working on a rendering that has a small quantity of vray fur in it in the form of reeds. I have to render the image out at a resolution about 5400 pixels wide, my workstation has 8 gigs of ram. If I keep the fur in my machine will crash around the 3rd prepass but the machine isn't running out of ram. How do I get around this because it doesn’t seem to be a memory problem.

[dbibb]

Under the V-Ray System tab, what are your Dynamic memory limit settings?

[devin]

800MB & default geometry set to auto

[dbibb]

If you have 8 gigs of ram, try setting it at 7000 MB

[MoonDoggie]

I was on the perception that it was a PER CORE threshold, so 800mb per core would be 6400mb? am I wrong?

[devin]

I thought dynamic memory was used for loading proxy objects in a scene, what does it do exactley?

[vlado]

I was on the perception that it was a PER CORE threshold, so 800mb per core would be 6400mb? am I wrong?

This was true for some very old V-Ray versions (before 1.47, I think). But now the dynamic memory pool is shared between all rendering threads.

Dynamic memory is used for several of the V-Ray render time geometry primitives, like 3d displacement, VRayFur and VRayProxy.

Best regards,
Vlado

[MoonDoggie]

thanks for clearing this up Vlado, now I'm boosting mine to 6gb!

[3LP]

wow, i had that in mind too... for the old versions...

thx vlado, now I will boost mine too. I can't figured out why my rendering took so long with displacement (loading, unloading), now I know