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Maya
Huge rendering problems with virtual memory
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Will J 215 posts17 Mar 2008Ok I'm in serious grave deep doo-doo dis time.
I simply cannot render my apache. It renders afew tiles and then stops. I get the error message: memory exception thrown. Meaning that I don't have enough virtual memory assigned to maya I'm guessing. Does anyone have ANY idea how to rectify this? I really need help this time because this could sink the whole project (and seeing as it's a good portion of my second year grade, it's pretty important!) Lowering the render settings doesnt help. So far nothing I have tried works. I'm up the creek here.
Help?
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17 Mar 2008wow that sucks. i hope you can resolve that soon. i've never gotten that specific error message so I wouldn't know, BUT if it was me, I'd start going by going back a few steps. by this I mean, make a duplicate copy of the file and tweak the file then render each time to see if it works (like delete history and render, assign a basic default shader and render, etc, etc).
I've also noticed that exporting the model (try mb, ma, and obj) sometimes fixes errors -- one of my models just started crashing out of nowhere at random (sometimes selecting it would cause it to crash or sometimes just rotating the view would, etc) and I exported it out and brought it into a new file and that fixed the problem.
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Will J 215 posts17 Mar 2008Thanks I'll try that, common sense isn't it really haha. It sure worked BEFORE I textured everything. But I will need a textured model either way. I had lots of problems with meshes losing their shading networks after I bodged smooth proxy removals, exporting and importing them as a .obj saed my a$$ on several occasions. Thanks for those ideas man, much appreciated
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17 Mar 2008One thing you can try also, is messing with your bsp settings, tweaking that can often help with memory errors. And once your scenes start getting bigger and bigger, and they do..
you're going to need to save yourself headaches by tweaking the hell out of your render settings to give and take where you can. But the first thing I do before rendering a scene is get the optimal bsp settings, and then maybe even break it up into passes so that it's easier on the machine.
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17 Mar 2008hey zach (or anyone really) do you know of any good tutorials (or book, etc) on mental ray for maya? i know some of the basic things to tweak for my renders but things like bsp settings are beyond me. any good resource would be awesome!
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Will J 215 posts17 Mar 2008I just ordered . It looks pretty good, I'm sure it'll help me. As for the rendering problems, if I reboot my PC and don't do andupdates on my PSD networks I can render. Though I havent seen how high I can push the settings yet, we'll see.
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Will J 215 posts18 Mar 2008FIXED! I converted all the PSDs to file nodes and now everything works fine. I just put up some renders in the factory!
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18 Mar 2008one thing i was gonna suggest was rendering out all the different passes, diffuse, shadows, specular, etc. but it seems you have figured it out so nevermind
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18 Mar 2008sweet! i'll take a look at that book as well....
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