Bitmap Pager - still a 'no-no'?

[tricky]

I have some models that I have put into my seen with lots of 8x8k texturemaps asigned to them. My RAM use while rendering has jumped through the roof, and until I do some testing, I can only assume it is these high-res textures that are causing the problem.

I know that Bitmap Pager is supposed to help out here, but as I understand it, VRay doesn't like it, or at least using the bitmap pager affects rendering performance.

Rather than manually opening all the associated texturemaps, downsizing and re-linking top the low-res maps, is there a more automated way to help here?

[theedge]

You don't have to do it manually. I use pixamoon's Bitmap resizing script and it works very well : http://www.pixamoon.com/shop/4587562...ng-.../9333016
For a free alternative, try this one : https://renderpeople.com/plugin/ from renderpeople.

[tricky]

You don't have to do it manually. I use pixamoon's Bitmap resizing script and it works very well : http://www.pixamoon.com/shop/4587562...ng-.../9333016
For a free alternative, try this one : https://renderpeople.com/plugin/ from renderpeople.

Yes - I've just purchased pixamoon's script - very clever!

[^Lele^]

with the nightly from a couple of days ago, on an old evermotion scene, i saw the log stating BP was active, and -hear hear- being deactivated for the time it took to render.
Should you need textures to fit a ram budget, convert them to tiled EXRs, load them with a VRayHDRI loader, and set your texture cache size accordingly.

[Dave_Wortley]

Get this:
http://www.pixamoon.com/shop/4587562...ng-.../9333016

Convert everything to tiled tx format or tiled exr format and you'll never run out of ram again.

[^Lele^]

rmc in the max vieport -> convert bitmaps to vray hdri -> check convert to tiled exrs

[Dave_Wortley]

rmc in the max vieport -> convert bitmaps to vray hdri -> check convert to tiled exrs

TXs are better for 90% of times. Most textures are 8bit after all.

[^Lele^]

indeed, and yet the double size for data is vastly dwarfed in importance by correct mip loading.
It'll not be the 16bpc running you outta ram.

[tricky]

Thanks y'all.