Strange error

# 1 30-03-2003 , 10:41 PM

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only when trying to render my scene with mental ray (maya renders same scene okay) do i get a complete shutdown of maya followed by a series of errors locking up my computer for ages, one of the errors is 'windows is low on virtual memory changing size etc'
heres a pic of one of the others which all look the same-------

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# 2 30-03-2003 , 10:59 PM

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have you tried re-installing Mental Ray?

-Emo

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# 3 30-03-2003 , 11:32 PM

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yeah, 'fraid so user added image

mental works fine with other projects, it's just the one file 'a dodge viper' i made

and also for some reason with this file i get :

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Warning: Render view: Selected region is too small //
(in the script editor)

i'm not too sure why, ive tried zooming in and out

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# 4 30-03-2003 , 11:54 PM

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it says selected region, that means it has nothing to do with your zooming in/out.... its' when you render the scene and the region you are selecting is too small... that is.. IF you are even selecting a region... are you?

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# 5 31-03-2003 , 12:16 AM

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no i've never had to do it before?

I just line up my shot in the persp camera, goto render view and render persp

i thought i only had to select a region for IPR renders?

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# 6 31-03-2003 , 12:44 AM

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no, i didnt say you have to select a region to render something...

by the error, I assume it's expecting you to select a region... (dont know why)... did you look into your MR render globals to see how its' set up? Make sure its' "deriving from maya" about resolution and all that

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# 7 31-03-2003 , 08:21 PM

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thx Emo, i've just figured out why i think, i must of accidently drag clicked across the render view window and it must of saved it in the prefs.

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# 8 02-04-2003 , 12:25 PM

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I experienced the same problem (the first problem), but solved when I keep Sampling Quality/Min and Max Samples above 0. Or you can just choose production quality to avoid the problem.

Hope it will help you.

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