Proxy crash

[Exon]

I have a single frame I'm trying to render for print.. The client purchased a fairly hi-res model off of turbosquid that was already set up for Vray.. I loaded it, attached all the parts to one mesh, then exported as a vray proxy mesh.. I deleted the original model, loaded the proxy mesh, re-applied the multi-material, and duplicated it about 30 times..

However, for some reason the scene won't render and max crashes..




-Matthew

[Morbid Angel]

try duplicating this model as a reference/instance as opposed to copy.
Also if you want the model to be a copy (which it doesnt matter really) you can switch to dynamic memory, that should also help.

[Exon]

try duplicating this model as a reference/instance as opposed to copy.

Ack! You know, in fact I did instance all the copies instead of just copying them. I knew this would be super memory intensive, so I was hoping that would help (only load the model once)..

Also if you want the model to be a copy (which it doesnt matter really) you can switch to dynamic memory, that should also help.

Where is the dynamic memory switch?

Thanks!

So much to learn..

-Matthew

[DaForce]

system rollout on the Render panel

just up the limit till it renders.

[Exon]

I raised the limit to 2000Mb, but it still crashes.. The Vraylog.txt has this at the end:


error: UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: Irradiance map thread
Last marker is at P:\dev\LocalVSS\vray\vrender\src\vray.cpp, line 1318: VRay::getMaxBgColor()

error: UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: Irradiance map thread
Last marker is at P:\dev\LocalVSS\vray\vrender\src\vray.cpp, line 1318: VRay::getMaxBgColor()

error: UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: Memory allocation failure; 178115956 bytes requested; 694973949 bytes already in heap.
Last marker is at P:\dev\LocalVSS\vray\vrender\src\vray.cpp, line 1318: VRay::getMaxBgColor()

[2006/Mar/30|19:09:39] error: UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: Memory allocation failure; 178115956 bytes requested; 694974213 bytes already in heap.
Last marker is at P:\dev\LocalVSS\vray\vrender\src\vray.cpp, line 1318: VRay::getMaxBgColor()




-Matthew

[Morbid Angel]

also 3gb switch is something to look at if you are still having issues.
Read in vray general forum about it.

[DaForce]

yeah your still running out of memory.. mmm aybe you need to decrease the dynamic memory.. try something really low like 200mb

but yeah 3gb switch may help.