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    • thomthomT Offline
      thomthom
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      Even when using VRImage?

      hmm... I've been able to render much larger than that.

      Are you by any chance often using displacement?

      What are your V-Ray setup (settings)?
      What are you model stats?

      Can you post a few examples of your scenes that run out of memory when rendered very large?

      Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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      • thomthomT Offline
        thomthom
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        Also, remember that when increasing the output you often can decrease other settings.

        For instance, if you got your scene looking good at 800x600 with IR -4, -1, then when you increase output to 1600x1200 you can adjust your IR to -5, -2 since the IR is resolution dependant.

        Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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        • thomthomT Offline
          thomthom
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          @holmes1977 said:

          Model Stats
          Edges 2864
          Faces 923
          Components 136
          Groups 186
          Materials 87

          That can't be the full stats... in the Model Info -> Statistic window, make sure you tick "Show nested components"

          By the way, which version of VfSU do you use?

          Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
          List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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          • holmes1977H Offline
            holmes1977
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            Also there is no displacement. Im only using bump on the stacked brick.

            Exaggeration makes a dull story better.

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            • holmes1977H Offline
              holmes1977
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              Hi Thom

              Model Stats
              Edges 2864
              Faces 923
              Components 136
              Groups 186
              Materials 87

              Files size is 22.5mb
              The largest material is the concrete driveway at 2550x3500 pixels at 2.89mb. Which is abit big but it is a large area.

              http://i607.photobucket.com/albums/tt154/holmes1977_album/Final_01_03copy.jpg

              Here is the image at 1024x768

              The IR setting for this are -4, -1. When I rendered at 3000x2250 and left the IR settings the same. So tonight I'll changeit to -6, -3.

              Thnaks again Thom your a star. I'll render this tonight and let you know how I get on.

              Exaggeration makes a dull story better.

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              • holmes1977H Offline
                holmes1977
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                Whoops having a dumb moment

                Model Stats
                Edges 818932
                Faces 226155
                Components 500
                Groups 2151
                Materials 87

                That looks abit more like it. Tonight or this afternoon Ill render it again and see if chnging the IR settings helps. Otherwise I'll post all my settings.

                Im using the latest Vray.
                The last render I did had the RAM usage up at 3.24 gb, I was holding my breath waiting for it to crash but it didnt.

                Cheers mate

                Exaggeration makes a dull story better.

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                • thomthomT Offline
                  thomthom
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                  You have mentioned "The latest Vray" as your VfSU version, can you be specific? There's been several times where people have thought to have the latest, while they actually did not. And I also don't know if that means the beta or not.

                  Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                  • thomthomT Offline
                    thomthom
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                    Ah yea - the version number is now located under Preferences -> Extensions -> V-Ray for Sketchup

                    There is an memory leak in this version however. So as you render after render you might find that memory is not released. Version .83 should be released right about now - but I'm not sure if it fixes the memory leak. But it does fix an array of other problems.

                    Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                    • holmes1977H Offline
                      holmes1977
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                      Sorry Thom for being vague
                      The Vray version is 1.48.66

                      It dosnt say what version Vray is in the options anymore
                      So had to hunt for the installer.

                      Ive finished work and am about to test changing the IR settings.

                      Exaggeration makes a dull story better.

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                      • holmes1977H Offline
                        holmes1977
                        last edited by

                        You were total right about the IR settings

                        Im now rendering double the size of the last render at 4096x3072
                        and it is using a whole 1gb less memory.

                        I didnt realize that it would make that much difference.

                        Have you had any experience in printing large images. If you have, what
                        output size do you think I would need if I wanted to print to 1.2m x 2m?

                        Thanks again for your help Thom

                        Exaggeration makes a dull story better.

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                        • R Offline
                          rv1974
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                          It's sad but VRAYforSU is the oxymoron. Use original max version.

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                          • thomthomT Offline
                            thomthom
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                            It really depends on from where it will be seen. Such large images usually are seen from further away so one usually doesn't need the same resolution as A3/A4.

                            1.2m = ~47.24"
                            2.0m = ~78,74"

                            Say you print this in 100dpi - slightly larger than screen resolution:
                            47.24 * 100 = 4724
                            78,74 * 100 = 7874

                            But that might be very high resolution is you are at a distance.

                            1.2m x 2.0m has an aspect ratio of ~1,667
                            4096 x 3072 has an aspect ratio of ~1,333 - so that means some cropping must be done unless you change that.
                            Also, 1.2m x 2.0m is portrait, and 4096 x 3072 is landscape - so I'm not sure what orientation you are going for. ?

                            I'll assume the output to be 2.0m x 1.2m - landscape.

                            So if we use the full length of your render and print that to 2.0m, the resulting DPI is:
                            4096 / 78.74 = ~52.02dpi

                            Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                            List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                              thomthom
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                              @rv1974 said:

                              It's sad but VRAYforSU is the oxymoron. Use original max version.

                              Getting a Max license - not a cheap solution...

                              And as for the semantics: can't say I see how one can define "V-Ray for Sketchup" as an oxymoron.

                              Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                              List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                rv1974
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                                @thomthom said:

                                @rv1974 said:

                                It's sad but VRAYforSU is the oxymoron. Use original max version.

                                Getting a Max license - not a cheap solution...

                                And as for the semantics: can't say I see how one can define "V-Ray for Sketchup" as an oxymoron.

                                There are some good examples of oxymoron in english wiki that depict my statement qiute well: Serious Joke, Sweet sorrow, Happy depression... 😆

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                                • thomthomT Offline
                                  thomthom
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                                  "Metaphoric oxymoron" ? 😉

                                  Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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