Particle flow with instanced xref -> vray poops pants -> my computer dies

[duke2]

I have particle flow spawning xrefd bushes onto the soil inside planter boxes. It's told to do density by material, where I have a gradient setup so it only spawns on the tops of the planters and not all over the sides. When I hit render, it says Updating PFlow Event01 or something, and freezes. I've tried leaving it for 10 minutes but no go.

[vlado]

Does it render with the scanline renderer?

Best regards,
Vlado

[duke2]

It was me trying to generate too much foliage I think. I tried it again at half the particles and left it and it eventually unscrunched itself. I forgot that I was trying to replicate a half million poly large clump of detailed plant ...around 8000 times.

[re:FORM]

keep an eye on your memory usage when the pflow is preparing the mesh... I've had my machine grind to a halt as my memory useage headed above and beyond 14gb!

Low-poly plants are your friends!