Irender nxt

csilewski · 20 Apr 2009, 21:56

I recently downloaded the irender nxt program and have been playing around with it. I am currently trying to render a couple of images from a large file with alot of topo and the program keeps stalling out on me. Any suggestions on what i can do? I have already deleated as much as i can out of the views and the file to make it as small as possible.

Thanks

solo · 20 Apr 2009, 21:58

Use the batch render option.

csilewski · 20 Apr 2009, 23:18

worked.. thanks.!!!

csilewski · 21 Apr 2009, 15:40

I am still having problems with the Irender. For some reason it stops making the batch file about half ways through it. Any suggestions on what i may be doing wrong?

Al Hart · 21 Apr 2009, 17:22

@csilewski said:

I am still having problems with the Irender. For some reason it stops making the batch file about half ways through it. Any suggestions on what i may be doing wrong?

I see you have sent us a file. We will take a look.

csilewski · 21 Apr 2009, 19:30

Thanks,

I wonder if its cause of the number of trees in the model?

Al Hart · 21 Apr 2009, 19:55

@csilewski said:

Thanks,

I wonder if its cause of the number of trees in the model?

Your model is over 50MB. So it is nearing the limit of what we can handle. (Or, at least larger than anything we have handled so far).

It is currently downloading, so I haven't looked at it yet.

We should be able to handle large models. But sometimes something shows up which we haven't handled before. Usually we can make changes to accommodate it.

Have you tried RpTreeMaker trees - they take up much less room in the model, and render much better with IRender nXt then high-poly trees.

csilewski · 21 Apr 2009, 20:03

I tried tree maker and i love it..! Works great. Every tree in the model was made using that program. I do have on tree maker question. as you will see i made a tree that was was a pear blossom, so i used a png. file that was just the white bud. When it rendered out the buds showed up almost black. is it possble there was somthing wrong with the png file used to make the buds?

Gaieus · 21 Apr 2009, 20:10

Should have a look at that png file but it can be because pgn transparency only works above a certain number of bit colour (can't remember) and otherwise the transparent channel simply renders black. But I am not very good at these things so you'd better check elsewhere, too. Or share the png image here so we can see.

Al Hart · 21 Apr 2009, 21:39

As was implied in Gai's response - you have to be sure that you used a PNG file with a transparent background.

csilewski · 21 Apr 2009, 21:41

Here is the png. i used.

Al Hart · 21 Apr 2009, 22:07

@csilewski said:

Here is the png. i used.

It is definitely transparent and works in treemaker properly.

We are probably not passing it to the renderer properly.

(I placed the image as leaves on this tree. It looks fine inside of treemaker)

csilewski · 21 Apr 2009, 22:18

ya i don't know what to think of it.. i rendered the trees in a sperate file that contained just the trees and they look great but when there rendered in the my big file they turn black.

csilewski · 22 Apr 2009, 15:04

So i figured out why the trees where rendering black,

I made the trees with Tree Maker on one computer and then transfered them over to another computer to render out with Irender. when i did that apparently the leaf information did not transfer resulting in no images to make the leafs.

Gaieus · 22 Apr 2009, 15:07

That would still be weird. Components are supposed to be transferable between computers and SU versions.

csilewski · 22 Apr 2009, 15:13

The components where transfered but it seamed like the rendering information that went along with the trees got lost in the transfer.

Al Hart · 22 Apr 2009, 18:45

The RpTreeMaker definition contains the path name of the leaf, but not the leaf itself.

We need to store the leaf on the the definition or on the component to make them more portable. We will have to add that to RpTreeMaker.

Gaieus · 23 Apr 2009, 07:40

That's OK but once a SU component is made,it does contain the image (well, the whole, rendered image I mean), doesn't it?

I see we are talking about two different thing however - I thought the component showed up black, sorry.

csilewski · 23 Apr 2009, 14:57

They rendered black, on a different computer. But after i downloaded rp Tree Maker to that computer and then replaced all the original leaves with custome ones they rendered out great. So lesson learned i guess.

Al Hart · 23 Apr 2009, 18:40

I'm glad you found a way to make the trees work. However, it is our feeling that our users shouldn't have to do that much work. But it will be a little while before I get around to saving the leaf images on the component itself.

I am still getting ready to take a look at your large model. (There were some other things I had to clear up first)