Integrating 3D models with photography
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I think I killed Maya. Rendering problem.
Maya cannot render out this scene. In the first example (1), I start to redner the scene and it takes almost 15 minutes for it to start rendering. Sometimes it just crashes but when it does render...I only get what you see and than Maya stops.
So I thought about rendering it in regions as in example (2) but it still dies on where you see it in the image.
I know there is alot of geometry which the bulk of it consists of the pipes I have modeled (3). This is what I believe is killing my renders.
I than got rid of the pipes and it still takes awhile to render but it does render the scene. Still sometimes creashes doing this so I have tricked it my doing a batch render of one frame. This seems to work.
This is extremely frustrating. How can I render my complete scene? Why is maya dieing? I have deleted all history on objects and Optimized the scene for rendering and deleted all unused shader nodes. Where am I going wrong?
About the pipes...It's all polys except for the round curving tubes which are Nurbs. Could this be the problem? Should I convert these to polys or does it not matter? I am running a PC with 2.4 mhz with 1 gig of memory and about 13 gigs of free hard disk space. Thank you for any help.
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render -s 0 -e 0 -im <image> <filename>
or just hit
render
and it will list all the options.
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It came back and said Syntax error? I than tried to go through DOS but have no idea how to do this. Any suggestions?
Interesting Idea Pure Morning. I am trying that test out now with render layers making a layer for the pipes and the rest of the scene. How should I set this up meaning...What shoudl I leave on and off for the 2 layers, i.e. Beauty, Color, Spec? I also do not know about light linking. How does this work and what should I check in my shadows? I am new at this. thank you.
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FYI, mayabatch handles memory differently that the render window within Maya. By differently I mean better. think of it this way, Maya is sucking up RAM to display and manage your file so it has less to work with for rendering.
I would try setting up your render globals they way you want them, quit out of Maya, right click on your file and select "render".
Setting up render layers is a great idea for flexibility, but it likely won't help your RAM problem.
You could also buy more RAM, but Maya doesn't seem to recognize anything more than 2 GB.
Good luck.
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21-05-2004
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Yes it will because you will be rendering less at once and thus the memory footprint will be less.Setting up render layers is a great idea for flexibility, but it likely won't help your RAM problem.
As far as what to leave on I would do a beauty and shadow for each layer and then spec if you need to tweak it. That's probably all you will need. There is a free tute here at SM about render layers
Light linking is where you tell maya to only use certain lights to light certain objects. The default is to try and light everything but light linking will make mean that only certain lights will be used to light certain pieces of geometry.
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Dann...I forgot about rendering out of Maya with selecting the scene and using render command. I forgot about this since I changed the opening default of all my 3D scenes to DeepExploration. I'll have to give that one a try again.
Good news is that I rendered out just the pipes in sections with primatives as stand ins for my geometry for shadows and it worked. I composited the whole thing in aftereffects. Here is the final image. Suggestions and comments are welcomed. Thank you again. Cheers!
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