My objective is to render a a 24x36 inch image at 200 dpi. This results in a 4800x7200 pixel image, which is a high enough resolution for a large-scale printer.

I am using Poser 6 with the latest service packs on Windows XP. I'm rendering the image on my laptop and there are no other programs running. I only opened the one scene file, so there are no extra "things" floating around in Poser's memory.

First, I can't use the Poser 4 renderer: Poser gives me an error that this renderer doesn't support rendered images larger than 4096x4096.

When I use the Firefly renderer, the rendering runs for about an hour, then stops at the "Rendering" step with this message:
"There was error rendering the image. To reduce the memory used by Poser, try the following: uncheck texture filtering or reduce the bucket size."
(Sorry, I forgot to take a screen shot of the exact wording.)

As you can see from the screen shot of my render settings, I'm already rendering with "texture filtering" off.. as well as "raytracing" off, a bucket size of 64, and a Max texture size of 2000 (instead of the recommended 3564).

Does anyone have any good ideas? Or should I lower the dpi and the size of the image? A 24x36 inch image at 100 dpi will be 2400x3600 pixels, which is half the size. But will the image look pixelated when printed?

Thanks
--John

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