GeneralNutt opened this issue on Aug 15, 2012 ยท 5 posts
GeneralNutt posted Wed, 15 August 2012 at 8:44 PM
IN poser pro 2012 sr3 Dimension3d render firefly script, I see a precalulation scale box. What is this for?
bagginsbill posted Wed, 15 August 2012 at 9:20 PM
The IDL precalc gets bigger based on image size. As a result, your memory consumption can be rather huge if you are doing something in the multi-megapixel range. Some people were running out of memory very often.
To help with that, you can use that to change the IDL precalc as if you were doing a smaller image. For example, if have a 2K by 2K image but you set the precalc scale to .5, the precalc will act like it's a 1K by 1K image, and save you 3/4 of the RAM it normally uses.
The downside is detail/resolution may be lost (not that important for IDL) and artifacts will be bigger.
Everything in CG is some kind of nasty trade-off.
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CaptainMARC posted Fri, 17 August 2012 at 1:17 PM
Crikey! That's brilliant!
Is this kind of stuff documented anywhere? I haven't seen it in the manual.
(Though I confess I haven't looked at the SR3 manual yet...)
bagginsbill posted Fri, 17 August 2012 at 1:33 PM
Sorry I can't say - I don't read the Poser manuals. (except to point out that other people should read them, and then I show them the part they should have read)
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uli_k posted Fri, 17 August 2012 at 1:46 PM
PoserPython Methods Manual pages 311 and 322, GIPassScale() and SetGIPassScale(). It's not currently exposed in the GUI, but Dimension3D is taking advantage of it.