In bryce you can do a render "to screen" of an image up to 4000x4000 (even though your screen may only be 1024x768 for example) pixels, but any larger and you need to render "to disk".

Vue's renderer just seems to eat a lot of ram to render "to screen" (or it did in that example), but if you had enough ram, I imagine you could probably render to similar sizes (i.e. about 4000x4000) in Vue to the screen as you could in bryce - it just seems to take a lot more ram to do it (different renderer and all). My 2Gb of ram wasn't enough, so Vue warns you that you should consider doing it with a render "to disk" as that uses a lot less ram and thats when it spat up a dialog box saying that certain render effects can't be done in a render to disk - motion blur I think was one of them.... I'll see if I can find my screen grabs of the dialog boxes when I get home, or whether I threw them out. Its not a fatal issue, and like with a lot of bryce limitations, I'm sure there's probably someone around thats found some form of workaround.

Message edited on: 02/15/2006 21:37

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