is there a limit to faces/ xref models

[tom182]

having just received my XFrog CD collection of houseplans (Max format) I xrefed them (about 12 models) into my scene and hit render, but I get a string of errors and the render crashes. So I though it was an xref +vray prob. Then I tried it with 1/4 of the plants and it rendered ok, but the problem is that I need to have loads of plants in this scene, any ideas,

Tom

[bojo5150]

I'm having similiar problems myself. I don't have an answer yet.

[tom182]

hmm, I had to rush my initial post as I spend 3 hrs yesterday evening all in vain and had to go straight at it today, What I did today was as follows: I merged 3 xfrog max files into my scene, made about 3 instances of each, did a test render and it rendered fine, didnt want to push the boat out too far so I resorted to using images on planes (for the plants that are far from the camera), so its a mixture of both 3d meshes and Planes for my plants, rendering is currently 2 hrs and counting with no errors messages. My gut feeling is that it doesnt like too many faces in the scene, anyways good luck with yours
Tom

[rhino]

The new builds don't seem to like heavy geometry, I'm rendering some Tree Storm trees (1 million poly's) I can render one at a time any more will cause a string of errors blank buckets even though the scene is within the memory limit.
On a side note nested Xref's seem to cause numerous problems, best to stick to one level if you need to use them.