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Subject: Precalculation Scale

GeneralNutt opened this issue on Aug 15, 2012 ยท 5 posts
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GeneralNutt ( ) posted Wed, 15 August 2012 at 8:44 PM ยท edited Thu, 28 November 2024 at 5:04 AM

IN poser pro 2012 sr3 Dimension3d render firefly script, I see a precalulation scale box. What is this for?


bagginsbill ( ) posted Wed, 15 August 2012 at 9:20 PM

The IDL precalc gets bigger based on image size. As a result, your memory consumption can be rather huge if you are doing something in the multi-megapixel range. Some people were running out of memory very often.

To help with that, you can use that to change the IDL precalc as if you were doing a smaller image. For example, if have a 2K by 2K image but you set the precalc scale to .5, the precalc will act like it's a 1K by 1K image, and save you 3/4 of the RAM it normally uses.

The downside is detail/resolution may be lost (not that important for IDL) and artifacts will be bigger.

Everything in CG is some kind of nasty trade-off.

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CaptainMARC ( ) posted Fri, 17 August 2012 at 1:17 PM

Crikey! That's brilliant!

Is this kind of stuff documented anywhere? I haven't seen it in the manual.

(Though I confess I haven't looked at the SR3 manual yet...)

bagginsbill ( ) posted Fri, 17 August 2012 at 1:33 PM

Sorry I can't say - I don't read the Poser manuals. (except to point out that other people should read them, and then I show them the part they should have read)

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uli_k ( ) posted Fri, 17 August 2012 at 1:46 PM

PoserPython Methods Manual pages 311 and 322, GIPassScale() and SetGIPassScale(). It's not currently exposed in the GUI, but Dimension3D is taking advantage of it.

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