batch render does render with more threads

Introduction to Maya - Rendering in Arnold

This course will look at the fundamentals of rendering in Arnold. We'll go through the different light types available, cameras, shaders, Arnold's render settings and finally how to split an image into render passes (AOV's), before we then reassemble it i

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# 1 13-01-2013 , 08:54 AM

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Hello everyone, im using a hex core proccessor and im trying to get all 12cores to render but batch render keeps on crashing. I have try setting the Auto threads to 4 with 64 tile size and memory limite set to auto and it crashes, i tried same setting with threads set to 6 and it still crashed, 8 threads the same results, 10 threads and operating system crashes. How is this happening, does anyone understand this i've just had it with this program user added image

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# 2 13-01-2013 , 09:26 AM

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# 3 13-01-2013 , 09:28 AM

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I dont think so, i've upgraded to 18gb and maya takes 12.6 during batch render

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# 4 13-01-2013 , 12:38 PM

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I dont know if it will help but you could run the "run render diagnostics" also if you have access to another system see if the scene runs on that..............dave

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# 5 13-01-2013 , 01:22 PM

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I run the diagnostic and its tell me that dat some file have a resolution that is ineffient so i should use imf_copy to convert it to a mappable file to improve performance. My question is how do i convert to a mappable file and where does the file get saved to

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# 6 13-01-2013 , 02:25 PM

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if using maya 2013
cd C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2013\mentalray\bin

imf_copy.exe source dest

if using an older version then it will be in C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya20xx\bin\

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