MNArtist opened this issue on Jan 08, 2013 · 14 posts
MNArtist posted Tue, 08 January 2013 at 10:54 AM
I've done a lot of images using DOF, but I'm running into a problem where Vue 10.5 is crashing when it starts to do the first of two DOF passes. Using FastHybrid 2.5.
The only thing I can think of that's different from other scenes I've done with DOF is that I'm using a metacloud, shrunk down and posiitoned in the scene as fog. I'm also using some pretty heavy atmospherics - dense haze, volumetric light, high glow on the haze, etc. - to create some strong godrays in the scene. The scene itself is pretty lightweight - just 21 million polys. I'm not getting any memory warnings prior to the crash. Just crashes.
Just wondering if anyone else has run into this problem.
Thanks
cyberknight1133 posted Tue, 08 January 2013 at 11:54 AM
It might be a video card issue. You might want to try rendering externally.
MNArtist posted Tue, 08 January 2013 at 11:58 AM
Interesting idea. I'll try that.
Thanks for the reply
cyberknight1133 posted Tue, 08 January 2013 at 12:15 PM
No problem. Let me know if that works. I'm curious myself.
MNArtist posted Tue, 08 January 2013 at 9:41 PM
Finally had a chance to try, and it still crashed, even with the external render.
:(
ShawnDriscoll posted Wed, 09 January 2013 at 3:15 AM
I'll play in Vue 9.5 Infinite, since that is what I use. I'm curious if it will crash. Has not yet with anything I dish it.
MNArtist posted Wed, 09 January 2013 at 9:39 AM
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2402097
heres the image. Ended up faking dof in ps
cyberknight1133 posted Wed, 09 January 2013 at 10:02 AM
Did you render externally without loading the image first? It uses up substantially less resources that way.
Nice image, BTW!
MNArtist posted Wed, 09 January 2013 at 10:26 AM
I actually rendered this one to screen.
ShawnDriscoll posted Wed, 09 January 2013 at 7:46 PM
I couldn't get Vue 9.5 Infinite to crash. The drive was grinding away though during the first three rendered buckets to the screen. Then it ran smoother as it rendered the rest of the image. I used 3 passes for FastHybrid 2.5.
MNArtist posted Wed, 09 January 2013 at 7:58 PM
Interesting. Were you using GR? How much haze? Volumetric lighting? (Just trying to limit the possible problems i'm having)
ShawnDriscoll posted Wed, 09 January 2013 at 8:41 PM
I was using the default atmosphere and lighting.
blaineak posted Thu, 10 January 2013 at 1:31 AM
That would all add up to quite a load on the processors it seems to me. Clouds, transparency and reflection or refraction eat up resources. Add that to voumetric lighting, global radiosity and things like soft shadows or blurred transparency and your really laying it on.
What kind of machine are you rendering on?
Cool image :)
MNArtist posted Thu, 10 January 2013 at 8:16 AM
Intel I7, 3.4ghz, 16 gb RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX550TI