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Large scn only renders on laptop

Large scn only renders on laptop

2004-02-09 - By James_A_Coletta@(protected)

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24,000 x 7500 is the size I'm rendering it at. The actual printout size
will be 18'4" x 5'9" 150 ppi that's 30,300 x 10,500 px... but no chance
I'll render that resolution so I'll res it up in photoshop (max image
size in photoshop is 30,000 px wide) so I'll get close. I am render some
pieces at the final res to composite so most of the critical images will
be sharp.

It's going up as wall paper in a conference Rm so people will be right on
top of it.

Jim

"kim aldis" <kim@(protected)>
Sent by: owner-xsi@(protected)
02/09/2004 12:07 PM
Please respond to XSI

To: <XSI@(protected)>
cc:
Subject: RE: Large scn only renders on laptop

um .... 24,000 pixels is 24000x1800x4 bytes (guessing height) = 1.6Gb, all
in memory at the same time. Add in some Xsi, some data, some services and
Windows the Well Know Memory Hog and you start to get some idea. From how
far is this mural going to be viewed closest?

From: owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf Of
Harry Bardak
Sent: 09 February 2004 16:15
To: XSI@(protected)
Subject: Re: Large scn only renders on laptop

Try to convert all your texture in .map
-- -- Original Message -- --
From: James_A_Coletta@(protected)
To: XSI@(protected)
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 1:31 PM
Subject: Large scn only renders on laptop

I have this large scn to render at 24,000 px wide for wall mural went to
render on my HP dual Pentium 4... 2 gigs ram workstation. without
anything else running I dropped the scn on the XSI_3.5 Batch Rendering
icon it starts goes in to mem grabs ~30 % then quits. For 2 days I
tried all different mem, aliasing, paging file settings, even tried
reducing allot of the geometry no luck, also had a friend try with the
same results, on 3.5 and 3.5.1

But then I tried it on my Dell M-50 Pentium 4 M 1gig ram and it rendered
without going into any mem swapping. It just cranked away slow but sure.

Any idea why the power machines failed and my laptop succeeded?

 24,000 x 7500 is the size I'm rendering it
at. The actual printout size will be 18'4" x 5'9" 150 ppi  that
's 30,300 x 10,500 px...  but no chance I'll render that resolution so I'll
 res it up in photoshop (max image size in photoshop is 30,000 px wide) so
I'll get close. I am render some pieces at the final res to composite so most
of the critical images will be sharp. 
 
 It's going up as wall paper in a conference
Rm so people will be right on top of it.
 
 Jim
 
 
 
 
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 um .... 24,000 pixels is
24000x1800x4 bytes (guessing height) = 1.6Gb, all in memory at the same time.
Add in some Xsi, some data, some services and Windows the Well Know Memory Hog
and you start to get some idea. From how far is this mural going to be viewed
closest?
 
 
<hr>From: owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto
:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf Of Harry Bardak 
Sent: 09 February 2004 16:15 
To: XSI@(protected) 
Subject: Re: Large scn only renders on laptop 

 Try to convert all your texture in .map
 -- -- Original Message -- -- 
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:James_A_Coletta@(protected)>James_A_Coletta@(protected)</a>

 To: <a href=mailto:XSI
@(protected)>XSI@(protected)
.COM</a> 
 Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004
1:31 PM
 Subject: Large scn only renders
on laptop
 
 
I have this large scn to render at 24,000 px wide for wall mural went to render
on my HP dual Pentium 4...  2 gigs ram workstation.  without anything
else running I dropped the scn on the XSI_3.5 Batch Rendering icon it starts
goes in to mem grabs ~30 % then quits.    For 2 days I tried all
different mem, aliasing, paging file settings, even tried reducing allot of the
geometry no luck, also had a friend try with the same results,  on 3.5 and
3.5.1 
 
 
But then I tried it on my Dell M-50  Pentium 4 M  1gig ram and it
rendered without going into any mem swapping.  It just cranked away slow
but sure. 
 
Any idea why the power machines failed and my laptop succeeded?