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Vue F.A.Q (Last Updated: 2024 Nov 26 6:57 am)
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.
The internal renderer can be two things:
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.
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?
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.
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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.
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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??
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