Is there a way to raise the maximum map size past 2048?

[HowardDay]

I have a scene with some 16K textures in it and I'd really like to be able to half-size them in some renders as VRay still refuses to keep textures loaded in GPU memory as it renders an animation, and the transfer process is taking multiple minutes every frame. As it stands, I can't input any number higher than 2048 into the max texture size field, which is much too small for my needs. Ideally, the textures would stay on the card, but that's never worked as far as I know. (Yes, all textures are in VRayBitmaps, all textures are in .tx format)
Help?

[HowardDay]

Roughly speaking I'm losing 28s every frame to texture loads - at 480 frames, that's costing me an extra 3.6hours of rendering time, for literally nothing.

If I set this scene to use on-demand mip-mapping, it re-loads the same textures, at multiple mip-levels over and over *per-frame* slowing the *total* render down by 2-3 times. If I set it to "resize" I get much blurrier textures, with the same basic issue - reloading every frame.
There's got to be a way to do this once.

[Muhammed_Hamed]

I can't input any number higher than 2048 into the max texture size field, which is much too small for my needs

Are you using the resize option for this? or where are you controlling a Max texture size?

Ideally, the textures would stay on the card, but that's never worked as far as I know

This is near the top of the current priority list, the plan is to keep resources between rendering the frames. This is related to our implementation of Out of Core textures, it is WIP for a few months now. Multiple developers are on this

Best,
Muhammed

[HowardDay]

Yes, I'm using the resize option for this - it allows a maximum of 2048.

[Muhammed_Hamed]

Yes, I'm using the resize option for this - it allows a maximum of 2048.

Thanks!
I will see what could be done about it

[HowardDay]

Thanks! - I will say that for me at least, this is a wor-around to the keep-textures-and-assets-on-the-cards issue. If you could do that with models as well, well, I'd be through the roof happy. You'd cut down well over a minute per frame of additional render time!

[Muhammed_Hamed]

Agreed, the frames would take one or 2 minutes to render but loading the scene into VRAM takes much longer. We have invested heavily in OOC, it is nearly done and should help us achieve this task here

[Nikita2016]

Yes, I'm using the resize option for this - it allows a maximum of 2048.

2048 - limit UI
Use for example:

renderers.production.opencl_textureSize = 4096

https://cloud.mail.ru/public/9rbs/akJJWquHP

[HowardDay]

Oh, interesting! Thank you for that, that definitely helps!

[Nikita2016]

Oh, interesting! Thank you for that, that definitely helps!

If you need, I can write a small script to change the texture resolution.
Sorry for my English (I'm from Russia)