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I've finished my latest image, see link. Rendered it at 1280x600 for the gallery, no problem, came out wonderful. Now I'm ready to render for print and set the size at triple, 3840x1800. Half way through the rendering I'm noticing that items are missing, my terrain is gone. All the trees, rocks, plants and water are there, but the terrain isn't. Set the size to double, 2560x1200 and the terrain is back. Set it at 2.5 times the size, 3200x1500 and the terrain is gone. The terrain has terrainscape material, with displacement.

Anyone know what causes this? Too little memory for rendering?

Quote - I've finished my latest image, see link. Rendered it at 1280x600 for the gallery, no problem, came out wonderful. Now I'm ready to render for print and set the size at triple, 3840x1800. Half way through the rendering I'm noticing that items are missing, my terrain is gone. All the trees, rocks, plants and water are there, but the terrain isn't. Set the size to double, 2560x1200 and the terrain is back. Set it at 2.5 times the size, 3200x1500 and the terrain is gone. The terrain has terrainscape material, with displacement.

Anyone know what causes this? Too little memory for rendering?

My guess would be that the displacement is the culprit. Try to uncheck tyhe displacement and see if the terrain reappears. You could also try to bake the displacement. If the terrain is procedural, convert it to standard and then try with and without disp.

Ciao

TD

Thanks for the reply. I've tried rendering without displacement and that is no problem. I'm not sure if I can bake the displacement in Vue Complete all have to check it out. Since you located the displacement as the problem I looked at the terrain. In my render only part of the terrains is shown. I cut away everything that you can't see in the camera and then clipped it. Now I've got only the part left that I see. The small size render looks the same as the previous one. So, I'm not rendering large size and it works fine..... except for it taking ages to finish :-) But at least I can render the image now, so thanks again!

Quote - Too little memory for rendering?

How much RAM is it using while rendering, and how much RAM is in your machine?

     I've found while network-rendering that Vue uses considerably less memory than does Poser, for similar levels of scene complexity.  For the last several days, I've been rendering panorama shots to be used to texture environment backdrop walls and/or a skydome for Poser.  Each pano is done in quarters, four renders to cover 360 degrees.  Each render is 4096x4096, at "superior" quality setting.  I was going to do each pano as a single render and then cut it into quarters in a photo program, but Vue didn't seem to want to finish.  It wasn't running out of memory, not even using 1/6 of the memory, but it did seem to be stuck.  When I changed to rendering four pieces at 4096x4096 each, it succeeded at rendering.

There's 8Gb in the machine and after monitoring it, I see it's almost using all of it for this scene.

I found something else out today, until now I did render by given advise for photographs and renders. I do own a large format printer and the advise given is that for those you don't have to use 300dpi, 150dpi is more then enough. I've tried that and it works well. My large poster still looks very good when rendering at lower settings.

That gives me some more room to breathe :-)