Hi,

I'd be very interested what the mazimum resolution anyone has rendered, using Vue. I find above around 2500 x resolution, I get a memory warning. I can render above this but only when I do select rendering in narrow vertical strips, which means I have to then piece together the final image in Photoshop (very inconvenient).

I have tried the external render but again above around 2500 x it fails to render.

I'm sure I saw a Vue gallery on here, which showed large framed prints, but can't remember the name.

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Dom

I've done a 4000x3000-ish render, but like you I had to do it in strips and join it back together at the end(but then I've been doing that for 4 years so it doesn't worry me having to do it that way). The biggest single render images I've done were about 3000x2700 but they were really simple images (1 terrain, 1 ecosystem sort of things). I tried a 6000x2700 of the same sort of image, but that suffered the Vue version of explosive decompression every time.

Dom try another really large one but with the output set to .bmp as far as I can tell the .bmp looks the same as any other output format, but it doesn't cause memory problems. I got that tip from eon when I wrote to them about rendering large. the other thing they suggested was disable decimated mesh previews and background draw thread to keep memory usage reasonable. Let me know if that changes things for you. It did for me! Love esther

Hi Dom,
Yes, Esther shared the BMP tip with us awhile back, and I've found it useful. I typically like to render at 3200 pixels wide by whatever the height would be for that width. I've not had any problems, but I only render those on HyperVue. I've got 4 Core Duo's at my home which all are used for the render.

I don't know about your renders, but I typically like to use GA with Spectral or Standard atmospheres. AO, GI and Radiosity chew up much more rendertime..perhaps cycles as well. Of course your renders are so stunning I doubt you'd want to change any of your settings.

Also, I got a tip from Jim Coe (I believe) about PhotoZoom Pro 2 which is incredible at ENLARGING existing images. If you don't own this software, you will want it. Please check out the trial as it's unbelievable what it can do.

HTH,
Chipp

Wasn't my recommendation, Chipp, lol - but i'd like to try it!
I have recommended the cool "Neat Image" intelligent digital noise removal tool and you might be remembering that.

I have started rendering my existing gallery to 6000 x resolution, in order to get a good quality print of between 20 - 30 inches.  The rendering to screen in small stages seems the best way for now. Photozoom looks good and I will do some tests with it.

Cheers

Dom

I use Fred Miranda's SI Pro 2 for enlarging.
Does a great job for me and a lot cheaper than the usual reccommended suspects.

Also using his Intellisharpen II, for post sharpening.

Fred Miranda Software

Cheers