High poly scenes

[pvanhaitsma]

I'm having trouble rendering big scenes with vray using max 4.2. The scene is currently a little over 2 million polys and will probably be higher once it is finished. Basically max just fast exists or I get a vray error. Please let me know if anyone is having similar problems and how they possibly could be fixed.

[csmiles]

I am having similar problems, it appears i can render with certain geometry hidden, then when I unhide all it crashes out without warning.I've tried collapsing geometry to single objects etc withoout any real success.It appears vray has a limit to the geometry it can handle.

Anyone else?????

[asango]

http://www.chaoticdimension.com/foru...gh+poly+scenes

http://www.chaoticdimension.com/foru...gh+poly+scenes

http://www.chaoticdimension.com/foru...gh+poly+scenes

http://www.chaoticdimension.com/foru...ht=instanciate

http://www.chaoticdimension.com/foru...ht=instanciate

http://www.chaoticdimension.com/foru...ht=instanciate

just a couple of threads about high poly issues and geometry creation methods like in instanciate.

it seems as though it is usually a case of RAM consumption. i havent personally had any problems with this b/c most of the stuff i do is single product studio renders, but hopefully there is some info there that will help.

[mike_kennedy]

Using Instancing and adding more RAM are the only two solutions I can think of when I ran into similar issues.

[yukon_cornelius_]

Umm a thing to try is ...
re set the X formes.....2x.....that will showw like all the mirrors...and what not....I think that waht it ..is ....VRAY DONT LIKE THE MIRROR....

[pvanhaitsma]

I cut down the bigger objects to under 10,000 polys and it seemed to help. However, when I added more geomtry later it did the same thing. So I tried rendering the scene a machine with a little more ram and it seemed to do the trick. (1st machine had 1gig and the second 1.5) I also used instancing on the second machine and for now its working. Thanks, for the help.