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Chaos Corona for 3ds Max => [Max] General Discussion => Topic started by: peterguthrie on 2013-12-13, 17:58:48

Title: memorytastic scenes
Post by: peterguthrie on 2013-12-13, 17:58:48

was going to try rendering this in corona, but having problems with corona going a bit crazy in memory usage despite my earlier tests (will try to find the thread in a sec)

I even got a rather amusing error message: "WTF bad allocation" or something like that ;)

any tips or anything I could try?

Title: Re: memorytastic scenes
Post by: Ondra on 2013-12-13, 18:21:48

What Corona version and scatter did you use?  I dont see anything in the scene that could cause the problems other than scatter not doing instancing properly

Title: Re: memorytastic scenes
Post by: peterguthrie on 2013-12-15, 17:24:41

Sorry I haven't replied, will do on Monday or Tuesday. Currently laid low with norovirus :( using all available energy to type th

Title: Re: memorytastic scenes
Post by: skinny_santa on 2013-12-15, 17:56:05

so you are really that guy :|

Title: Re: memorytastic scenes
Post by: art-MIXER on 2013-12-15, 22:01:41

Surprised because tried very hard to render the scene using high polygonal models nested in Forest Paсk and it was all excellent. The working draft is not spent more than 10GB, the total number of geometry when it was approximately 7-8 billion polygons

Title: Re: memorytastic scenes
Post by: peterguthrie on 2014-01-08, 17:53:46

been digging around a bit more, this is with the jan 4th build

I used a white override material

at low forest pro density it rendered fine, using about 12gb ram, same for the other tests, but when I get to a certain density the memory usages goes crazy, over 32gb which is what i have in my system.

should i try a different build? what is the _2013 assert forestpack build all about?

cheers

Title: Re: memorytastic scenes
Post by: peterguthrie on 2014-01-08, 18:23:24

(trying the Jan 8th build now... think it might be fixed!!!)

Title: Re: memorytastic scenes
Post by: Ondra on 2014-01-08, 18:26:05

yes, there was a bug in previous builds, it should be fixed in the latest dated one. The "forestpack" is just a test build for forestpack guys, ignore it

Title: Re: memorytastic scenes
Post by: peterguthrie on 2014-01-08, 19:08:12

Quote from: Keymaster on 2014-01-08, 18:26:05

yes, there was a bug in previous builds, it should be fixed in the latest dated one. The "forestpack" is just a test build for forestpack guys, ignore it

awesome work!

confirmed by my tests, the jan 8th build now renders all the geometry and still using 12gb ram.

Title: Re: memorytastic scenes
Post by: Ludvik Koutny on 2014-01-08, 19:19:48

Performance of that high end dual Xeon does not cease to amaze me :O

Title: Re: memorytastic scenes
Post by: peterguthrie on 2014-01-08, 19:28:21

everyone should have one ;)

Title: Re: memorytastic scenes
Post by: Paul Jones on 2014-01-09, 10:55:45

Very kind of you to donate the machine to me Peter ;-) I'm waiting to see Loocas' results with his dual xeon.

Title: Re: memorytastic scenes
Post by: kahein on 2014-01-09, 11:27:30

wow really impressed by the speed of your config
and corona usse it really welll