shante opened this issue on Feb 18, 2012 ยท 26 posts
millighost posted Sat, 18 February 2012 at 4:49 PM
Quote - ... What will happen if i learn to work with fabric room or depth of field or reflections or HDRI lighting or even setting up certain files designed for it to use displacement maps? I willn ever be able to do any larger renders that way if it is crashing now for simpler or for what I consider simpler renders.
In my experience the things you render have more impact on the memory usage than the render settings themselves. HDRI lighting and textures in general do not add very much to the memory consumption. For example a V4 can add more than 100MB to the memory used during render, dynamic hair even more (a few 100K hairs can easily use over 1GB). I do not know about displacement maps, but in general you use the scene to fill up your memory and then use the render settings to make everything slow :-)