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go to render stats, and switch off
cast shadows
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receive shadows
Now you can start setting up your lighting.
Also make one ambient light and connect it only to the dome using the light linking tool.
And switch off any light linking from the directional lights to the dome.
So why is this, well now you have one light controlling the dome and the rest your scene.
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Thanks
Another problem though:
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mental ray: out of memory mental ray: out of memory mental ray: out of memory mental ray: out of memory mental ray: out of memory mental ray: out of memory MEM 0.6 fatal 031008: can't allocate 89611100 bytes. MEM 0.6 fatal 031008: can't allocate 89611100 bytes.
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should I change it through the render settings or through the mental ray globals?
BTW, can 'physical memory' help me in this case?
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Sorry about the bum arm Benny. And as far as I know they are the essentially the same thing, if you open both windows and tweak a setting in either one it will update the other. On your sky dome you could try using a surface shader and slap your texture in the out color slot, be warned it will contribute to lighting (if and when you turn on FG) unless you uncheck "Final Gather Cast" under your sky dome's Shape tab in the MR section, might as well uncheck "Final Gather Recieve" also.Originally posted by BennyK
should I change it through the render settings or through the mental ray globals?
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About where to change it - I figured it out but I just got my internet up and running again so I couldn't edit it.
about the BSP itself - I tried to increase it but got the same error. then increased it some more and it told me it's too high, automatically decreased it and I got the same error...
I'm doing some more experiments now and I'll post some progress soon.
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Maybe I can save some more work for my computer this way?
- What do these do?
mental ray:
*visible in transparency
*transmit transparency
*transmit refraction
render stats:
*smooth shading
- Does turning off stuff like 'motion blur' and 'double sided' help although I don't use it (Motion blur is off and I don't see the back side of anything)? I guess it can't hurt anyway...
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The rectangle in the middle was re-rendered in 10 minutes with a different color gain for the sky pic.
I need to fix the background before I send my PC on another full size render.
C&C please,
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It's also tileable now :attn:
I'll start that final now...
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...I guess it's the result of the bump map combined with the ambient light.
You can see how it's a little blurry around the edges of the bricks at the bottom, and further ahead it's blurry just about everywhere.
No luck with the render. I tried and tried to get it to render but got the same out of memory error.
Most annoying thing is that every time I get it I have to restart Maya since the harmless 'out of memory' somehow manages to cause a fatal error :headbang: :headbang: :headbang:
Why does it take more memory then the HDRI?!
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Progress! almost
I managed to run a render!!! It ran for three hours and then started complaining about being out of memory and crashed again :headbang:
Do I have absolutely no chance to render this?! I still can't understand why it worked with the HDRI but won't work with a sky dome...
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Originally posted by LauriePriest
... just use high incandesent shapes for reflections into your objects.
what are these high incandescence shapes?
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