Re: Rendering large Images...

["Morten Bartholdy" <xsi(at)colorshopvfx.dk>]

Take a look at this thread:

http://www.xsibase.com/forum/index.php?board=29;action=display;threadid=24304;start=2

I havent tried it but it might just help.

- Morten



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Helzle" <xsi(at)screendream.de>
To: "XSI - Mailinglist" <xsi(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 11:02 AM
Subject: Rendering large Images...


> Hi,
>
> I'm currently trying to render large images for print. Up to ~6000x6000 I 
> had no problems, but now I would like to render an image at 12,000x8000 
> pixels and get into a funny situation:
> The rendering works without any problem over several hours, but after 
> that, when tryting to save the image, MR says that the frame buffer is 
> invalid. Nothing is saved. :-(
> I tried to save to tiff 16bit.
> Now my question is:
> - Is there there a better image format for such large images (16bit or 
> higher)? I once heard that there are formats that can be written in a 
> "streaming" fashion without first being written to RAM into a framebuffer? 
> (I have 2 Gig and the machine peaks at 1.32 Gig for rendering (including 
> system).
>
> Or do I have to render it in tiles? I only have XSI Foundation so I can't 
> use batch etc.
>
> Anyone has experience in this area? What are max resolutions that work 
> with 2Gig of Ram for medium complex scenes?
>
> I try to find the biggest resolution I can render with the 
> least-overhead-file-format.
> The scene is the image on my homepage: http://screendream.de
>
> Best regards and thanks for any pointers!
>
> Thomas Helzle
>
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