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-Altopais
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Altopais

3 years ago
I'm having big problems rendering a car in mental ray.
Mental Ray keeps crashing every time i try to render.
Some times it's out of memory and some time it just crashes.
I'm rendering at 512x389 resolution, 700k polys in the scene.
Samples are at 1/4 and 4, final gather is on lowest settings. Conserve memory is turned on.I used simple car paint mat, metal mat and two glass materials for the scene.
I've played with numerous settings and nothing worked, well actually i manage to render one time out of 50 or more.

My machine:
Intel core duo 1.6ghz
4gb / 800mhz ram
900gb disks
Gforce 8600gt

I have enough of ram so i really don't understand that "out of memory" crash...

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+isaac
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isaac

3 years ago
Try using render elements.
For the car I have on my website, I rendered diffuse, lighting, and the zdepth images in different passes.

-Altopais
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Altopais

3 years ago
Tnx for the advice.
Looks like something was messed up with my max scene file i tried different passes and it worked on small resolutions, but when i tried something bigger, like 1k, mental ray crashed again grin.gif
Eventually i exported my scene objects and imported them in a new scene and everything worked fine.
wheee grin.gif grin.gif finally.
I lost almost entire day working to fix that crash...
The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-Albert Einstein

+isaac
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isaac

3 years ago
Hope it goes well!

-Altopais
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Altopais

3 years ago
Tnx. looks like everything is fine now, ill post a render soon grin.gif
The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
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+Steve Martin
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Steve Martin

3 years ago
I'll put it as solved, even though it was probably one of those weird bugs.
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