Hello,

I'm very interested in doing gigantic renders with Vue also.  I'm happy to try your scene but I only have the PLE version so you'd have to send it to me.  I was hoping to verify that I can do a gigantic render before I buy it :)...  I have Windows7ultimate w/12G RAM.

It seems to me that the most logical way to accomplish this is to render in tiles - that way, you conceivably could render an arbitrarily large image on any system.  AFAIK, the region/blowup function could be used for that purpose, however, it appears there are several problems that prevent this approach.

Not at all sure but... what I (think) I have observed is 1. Vue appears to allocate memory resources based on the total image size - not on the region size.  2. The region/blowup dialog does not seem to work above a particular number, i.e, if you spec 16000, 16000 then set a region to 8000, 8000 - the numbers don't stick.  The viewport shows some arbitrary area after I enter the values (10655, 8000).  Since there is no viewport snap (AFAIK), there is no way to precisely define subregions to divide up a large render.

It would be very cool to be able to render huge, if Eon is paying attention, this is a feature request.  Support tile rendering and accurately report resource usage prior to starting a render.