Forum: Poser Technical


Subject: Problems with firefly engine.

bogwoppet opened this issue on Mar 05, 2006 ยท 14 posts


bogwoppet posted Sun, 05 March 2006 at 10:55 AM

Hi,
I've been having problems with the firefly engine ever since it was introduced and wondered if anyone else was having the same difficulties.
Machine spec:
P4 3Ghz, 120 gig HD (40 gig free)Windows XP Pro with latest service patch. NVidia GeForce FX5900, Abit AI7 motherboard and Poser 6 with latest sevice patch.


Scene content:
V3 character with jumpsuit and saphirefox hair and Stonemason's bridge from Daz 3d. 4 lights but only 1 casting shadow (non raytrace)


Problem:
I've never been able to do much with the firefly engine because it gives an 'out of memory' error most of the time. Today I got the message and reduced the image size down to 3072 X 3072 @300dpi and a bucket size of just 8. No texture filtering, no depth of field and no raytrace. everything else was set to default and after half an hours rendering, I got the maeeage again. My machine is quite fast and the scene is not complicated so any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
Any help would be appreciated but I have already tried most things like lowering the texture size, bucket size, image size and turning off everything that was not needed.
thank you for your time.
Tony