arrow1 opened this issue on Mar 12, 2008 ยท 71 posts
svdl posted Thu, 20 March 2008 at 11:17 PM
I'd love to learn a little about the changes to Firefly. Right now, my Q6600 is chugging away at a render using over 4,000,000 KB of RAM in the external renderer (almost, almost OOM), using only a quarter of the available CPU powerl
The amount of memory used is staggering for the simplicity of the scene. One terrain object, one sky dome, five human figures (only three of them high resolution), two trees, some rocks and a campfire. I suspect it's the strand based hair that is eating this much RAM, but still, that amount is fairly ridiculous.
Will Firefly be fully 64 bit? Will it be smarter / faster / more stable? Will I finally be able to render an outdoor scene with a moderate abundance of vegetation without crashing the render engine?
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