Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: HELP, problem rendering!!

meltz opened this issue on Mar 07, 2007 · 4 posts


meltz posted Wed, 07 March 2007 at 4:30 PM

ok i was rendering a pic and this poped up.

"You can reduce rendering memory usage by lowering the max texture size, turning off texture filtering, and using smaller bucket sizes"

can anyone help, maybe by telling me what to set everything to in rendering options?

I dont want to loose any quality of render but i really need to fix this soon.

thanks


svdl posted Wed, 07 March 2007 at 4:43 PM

Using smaller bucket sizes does not affect the quality of the render. The two other options do.
If turning down the bucket size does not help, you might want to render in several passes. Which means rendering the background first (set the foreground objects to invisible), then change all the background material to "shadow catch only" - there's a useful wacro in Poser 6/7 that'll do that for you. Render the foreground figures and composit this render with the background render in a 2D program (Photoshop, PSP, the Gimp).

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meltz posted Wed, 07 March 2007 at 4:49 PM

smaller bucket sizes, what number should i set it at?


Acadia posted Wed, 07 March 2007 at 4:52 PM

How much memory does your computer have?

I used to get that a whole lot on my older computer with 384MB SD Ram. What I had to do is go into my graphic program and resize all of my texures to 1024 on the longest side, and I used "Bicubic Resampling" so I didn't lose image quality.  I did save the originals to another directory before overwriting them with the new reduced ones though.

When I rendered I also had to change the bucket size to 16 or sometimes even 8.

Also, if that didn't work, then I would have to make parts of the image invisible and render in pieces to assemble in my graphic program.

If you have clothing that covers body parts you can make those body parts invisible below the clothing which will sometimes help with rendering.  Even if the parts aren't seen below the clothing, Poser calculates for those parts which is why making them invisible will sometimes help.

Those are just some of my suggestions.  Perhaps others have some other ones.

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