lots of lights and lots of memory problem

[Hos]

In the scene I am trying to render I have a lot of lights. About 4000 vray rectangle lights.
Although I am only using them for the specular and only a few hundred of them are visible at the same time, these lights take in about 12 gigs of extra ram.
When I am using pointlights they don't take in any ram at all.
It seems that vray reserves a few mb of ram per light no matter what kind of settings you are using.
Does somebody know a way to make vray use less memory for these vray lights?

tnx
Arjan

[vlado]

Are you using any textures for the lights? Is their "use tex" option enabled?

Best regards,
Vlado

[Hos]

Thanks for the quick reply.
No I don't have the "use tex" option enabled.
If you make a new scene and create 1000 vray lights and render it, you can see it will take a big amount of memory regardless of any settings in those lights.
I am using a nightly build by the way (version 22347)

[vlado]

I know it's a simple scene, but can you get me an example? Just in case I'm missing something.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Hos]

Yes sure, I attached a sample scene with 2500 lights.
On my computer it will take 14 gigabyte to render the scene.

[t.petrov]

Hi,

I was able to reproduce the problem and I'm looking at it.
I'll let you know when it is fixed.

/Teodor

[t.petrov]

This issue should be fixed in the next night build.
Please test it and report if there are more problems related to it.

/Teodor