Tiling on farm

[nfowler]

Looking through the forums and noticed Maya's options for tiling are only for local rendering
*) Turn on the V-Ray VFB;
*) Set your image format in render settings to "vrimg";
*) After that, set the "Memory frame buffer" option in the Common tab of the render settings to "None".

Has their been any development on this front so we could make use of it on our Farm.
Noticed a different post with a user submitting with the -reg flag and inputting the resolution args from there. Is that it?

Let me know as we're looking into it for out next show.
Thanks

[yolov]

The -reg flag is used to set a region for rendering through maya batch.
The frame buffer = none is an option to reduce memory usage when doing a GUI render and write directly to disk - memory is reduced because we don't show the image pixels in the frame buffer and instead V-Ray directly writes the image to disk (useful when rendering on really large resolutions).

What exactly are you trying to achieve? What Maya tiling options are you referring to?

[nfowler]

We're rendering poster size images at about 10k. Our first renders were problematic due to memory issues, especially at the compiling geometry stage.
So we're looking for an alternative setup, that could work in our pipeline.

There's a couple options we saw in the docs for 3ds Max but don't see in Maya.
https://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/...y+Large+Images
Specifically, the 'Get resolution from Maya' & 'Generate preview'. Are these hidden in Maya somewhere as a cmd?

[Morbid Angel]

10k should not be an issue in general. Is your scene heavy? how much ram does it require?

Regardless of tile or region, each machine still requires the same amount of ram so I doubt it will help to split each chunk into a different region.