Hi all,
How does the external renderer work? I want to render my scene bu Vue tells me it's not possible cause of too much memory. And i don't want to minimize the size of my picture.

What have i to do??

Use the old "render to disk" option. But you won't be able to generate multipass components.

The external renderer will use far less memory than Vue does.

It will use 100% of CPU though.

And Vue may be shut down, or used for other purposes while the external renderer is running in the background.

It will also store future renders in a queue, and render them in a row unattended.

It will generate an alpha mask, a z mask, as well as the image.

What is external rendering?  Is this in Vue6 or is it the Batch render?

Because I have only 1GB RAM, should I use the external renderer instead? I also have never rendered to disk, would it also be better to try this option?

The internal renderer can be two things:

• The batch, that lets you render several images in a row, in the meantime, you can still work on another scene or same scene in the viewports. 
• Or the hypervue network rendering for ProStudio, Infinite and xStream.

Rendering to disk uses the internal renderer, the old Vue 5 way.

These options don't need as many resources as rendering to screen, because it deosn't have to display the render in progress and keep the textures loaded in the ram. This is particularily useful when rendering hi res images and/or very large renders.

The downside is, you don't see what is rendering, so if it doesn't look like you thought it would, you will only know when it's finished.

Thanks for the clarification bruno21.

Well, to be really clear, I meant the external renderer is the batch & hypervue, and not the internal renderer, but you figured it out, of course!

bruno021 - Thanks. I think I'm going to have to start rendering to disk as I want to produce larger images with higher resolution. With only 1GB of memory this may be the only way to really do it.

A typical render from Vue will cost me at least 1.4 Gbs of memory.

A typical external render is between 600 and 800 megs.  It appears to be more conservative.

I have problems with it: when i choose external render for my actual scene, it wrotes it begins the render, but adds 2 seconds after "render finished render time 00.00.00"!

And no image of course. Even if i specificated a file to save.

What is the trick?

Have i missed something?

Are you sure you actually asked to render an image that is not zero size? Did you choose a size for the render?
Sorry if this sounds stupid.

Here's how I use the external render.

1.  Make sure you have selected exactly how you want your scene to render (size and all the other setting).  

2.  On the render setting screen select External Render, select edit.  Select either Local Standalone render or network.  This will select the Render to Disk option.  Make sure the file name and path is what you want.  Click OK to close the render setting dialog.

3.  Save your Vue file and close it.

4.  Open a new blank scene.

5.  Click Render, Batch Rendering.  Sometimes the render will already have the file name there if you were rendering it and aborted.  Click Clean Finished to remove any files and then click the Add button to locate the Vue file to be rendered.  

6.  Wait for the render to finish.  You should see a DOS looking window with the status of the render showing what percentage is done.  You can minimize or close them.  For best results and time savings, don't use the computer for other stuff. 

You don't need to save and exit, you can just render away the scene you still have on screen.
Other than that, do as Peggy said! It's an order!

If you only have 1 GB of memory and want to render a really large picture, you do need to save and exit.  That gives your computer some extra room to think.  I have noticed that my main computer renders much quicker (about 25% speed increase) for network renders if I save/exit.   

Interesting, Peggy.
Mea culpa, then!