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fg map limitation?

fg map limitation?

2005-03-02       - By Alan Jones

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Have you watched xsi/ray3's memory usage to see what it hits? You
could just be running into windows 1gig/process limitation. Plus side
is it can be worked around, catch is linux is the workaround.

Cheers,

Alan.


On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 18:41:06 +0100, FLINX@(protected) <flinx@(protected)> wrote:
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>  Subject: fg map limitation?
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> hello ladies and gentlemen.
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> something that's been bothering me for a while is now coming back at me,
> maybe someone can help.
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> a longer scene – approx. 500 frames. all FG.
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> usually I calculate scenes like that twice.
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> first with bad antialiasing settings to generate the fg map, than full aa
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> works like a charme in shorter scenes.
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> now, if I'm doing longer scenes everytime I reach approx. 270mb of fg map
> size, the render crashes and I can't go on.
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> it won't render any further and it won't take the so far generated map for
> further rendering.
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> only solution up to now was splitting the scenes up in smaller parts,
> rendering with overlaps and doing a fade between them.
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> this I could live with, having to do one or two scenes like that.
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> but now I have a lot of longer scenes coming on and I wonder if there's
> another workaround this, cause setting up all this scenes, different names
> etc. would be pain in the you know where.
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> thx,
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