lior opened this issue on Dec 27, 2010 · 30 posts
ShawnDriscoll posted Wed, 29 December 2010 at 1:19 AM
But during the actual render (I'm guessing GR lighting is being used), does the render bucket (do you see the render as it's being done by the way? or is this being rendered straight to disk or something?) move along nicely and then pause for a bit while some Dynamic population is being generated? Then the bucket continues on until it runs over another eco-system that needs populating?
Lots of questions here, I know. But is your terrain a fractal one and is its material using a fractal pattern? Might as well turn off the fractals for both if the terrain is covered by plants anyway. That will save on RAM a bit and speed up the render as well.
How many lights are in the scene? More than three? How many sub rays? Can your system render the Sample Vue scenes included without RAM errors?
Render to screen instead of disk so that you can see where the crash is happening. Also watch your resource value go down as it renders. You do not want to go below 7% while rendering. You need room to save the render afterwards.