Add to Current vs. Incremental Add

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I’m new to loading stored information. I have a huge interior scene which I want to rerender faster from other angles. I take it that I could use one of the following options. I was looking at ‘Add to Current’ as an option. Would this be the best method from your experiences? But I don’t understand the difference. Does ‘Incremental Add’ use more memory overhead in fly-throughs vs. ‘Add to Current’?

On a slightly separate question, it pulls stored IR info from memory - is there a way to enable adding additional IR info to saved VRmaps and load them from this saved location vs memory overhead? I need to quickly close out of Max but I still want to retain this useful information. If I choose ‘Add to Current’ then ‘From File’ gets deselected. Also, would it automatically know to save/add to a previously written IRmap?

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I would use Incremental add to current map … then you are building layers and more info in the map and it will render very fast.

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Thanks for the quick reply.

So, should I use ‘add to current map’ with ‘on render end, dont delete, autosave, and switch to saved map all checked?’ Does this also mean that in-between I cannot close out of Max without fear of losing this data ‘stored’ in memory?

I ask this question because I offered to take a look at a scene for someone mid-way through a series of different renders. I just dont want to lose that valuable information if I have to restart everything.

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save the origanal map then set it to incremental add and it will just add more bits to it on an auto save function.

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It will also automatically know to load from it to?

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you have to tell it where to load from .. or switch to saved map

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Thanks again! :smile:

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Avoid using the “Add to current map” mode; use the “Incremental add” mode instead - this will save memory and will make subsequent renderings faster.

Best regards,
Vlado

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So when you are going to do stills from frame 0-10 you have to set it like this..

IRMAP

radio button → incremental add to current map
on render end
tick don’t delete
save → point out a map
switch to saved map

LC

flu through
on render end
tick don’t delete
save → point out a map
switch to saved map

right ???
Thx in advance

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Ok.. I was that person in between .. hehe.. :lol: :lol:

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Okay daforce said not to tick switch to saved map.. so.. I did..

but the strange thing is that when I hit the render button… he calculates the LC for the last frame first… and then he starts at the claculation of the IRmap of the first frame … ???

Nicolaas

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you must still have it on Flythrough mode ..

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it stayed on flythrough…
cross fingers..

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well calc it in flythrough mode save that down and render from it ..