Forum: Carrara


Subject: What's the largest file you've worked with?

robertzavala opened this issue on Aug 10, 2001 ยท 6 posts


robertzavala posted Fri, 10 August 2001 at 7:42 PM

Just posted my last RDS graphic (switching over to Carrara) in the galleries section. It's a large poster sized info-graphic of a 4 block area in San Antonio done over a 3 week period with 6 other artists. At 84 megs, the central image was the largest single Ray Dream file I've ever worked on, with hundreds of texture maps and tons of modeled buildings, cars etc. At 200 DPI my 733 mhz G4 Mac with a gig of ram rendered the scene in just under 3 hours. The file also bogged down the redraw and I had to switch to wireframe to get the job done. So it got me wondering about other people's experiences with really big files and if Carrara is handling them any better than RDS.