Q: vray crashes 2000+pixels

Deftig · 3 Jan 2017, 14:46

Let's start with wishing you all the best for 2017!

I have a problem: I have created an interior scene in sketchup to be rendered in vray.
While creating the scene i made, every few steps, a test render ranging from 600pixels to 1200.
Nothing to complain about, everything was as good as I can get it (still learning).
Then added lights and rendered it at 2k pixels and still no problem, but now I wanted to finish it so I can send it to a friend (for whom i'm doing this) and sketchup keeps crashing, ranging from just the bugsplat to an error message saying it can't write an error because temp. folder is full.

I read up on the internet: this is not an uncommon problem, but the solutions offered do nothing. (like this )
Also tried with proxy'ing almost everything in the scene, but to no avail.

If anyone is willing to help, i would appreciate it!

my setup:
skp 2013 (I had weird troubles with 2014+ and vray, hardware complications i guess)
i7 intel 6600
32Gb Ram
Windows 10.
scene: 189mb (a bit big, but not uncommon with 3dwarehouse models)
raw picture of the scene

andybot · 3 Jan 2017, 16:59

you might want to go to SU2015 or later to access more memory (64-bit versions). Sounds like you're running out of memory with good old 32-bit SU2013.

Deftig · 4 Jan 2017, 08:05

I tried going to sketchup 2015 one and half years ago (just before the release of windows 10). Just bought my new pc, but when i installed the vray demo to test if it was worth buying (in the sence: does everything work) I found a weird unexplained bug. My sketchup started to run incredibly slow after installing it (needed to wait seconds for the camera to rotate a few degrees and such). I actually asked the chaos group for help (it was after the install of vray that it happened so i hoped they knew a way to fix it). After they looked at it they were as baffled as me. So that's why I still use the 2013 with vray, as I'm sure it works.

Is there no other way to make the 2013 do as I want? Or do I need to try again with a higher version of sk?

andybot · 4 Jan 2017, 12:57

@deftig said:

Is there no other way to make the 2013 do as I want? Or do I need to try again with a higher version of sk?

with a scene of nearly 200MB, I don't see any easy way around the memory issue. Can you try installing 2016 Make version and only vray 2.0 for SU and see how it goes. I would completely uninstall vray before starting on the new install.