What happens regarding MR if you split up the render into subregions in
the format settings? Does it still require MR to calculate the entire
frame, or just the subregion area?
> Also, those framebuffers correspond to mental ray's map files, in case anyone's interested.
>
> So there is a chance to grab a copy, before mental ray deletes them, rename it "<something>.map" and convert it using imf_copy. There is no guarantee though that all the tiles will be there. More like a last resort.
>
> - Â
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Halfdan Ingvarsson
> Sent: 17-Aug-06 15:10
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: RE: rendering large formats problem?
>
> It's down to the fact that it cannot map the framebuffer into memory. It's the same as the good old contiguous memory error prior to the introduction of on-disk framebuffers, although the error is more confusing (ie. it's already created the framebuffer on disk, it just can't fit it into memory). A hard crash was always much more... err... descriptive.
>
> Mental images' design goal of the on-disk framebuffers was to support *many* framebuffers, not *large* ones. Stitching is still the way to go for huge final resolutions. They're aware of this problem and are looking into it.
>
> - Â
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Anthony Rossano
> Sent: 17-Aug-06 15:03
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: rendering large formats problem?
>
> And, given the error message, make sure you have a lot of free disk
> space on C:\.
> It's trying to allcoate space for a frame buffer and failing.
> Or at least that's what the message says.
> ATR
>
>
> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:42:15 -0400, Chris Johnson wrote:
> > I'm trying to render a poster size image from a commerical for a
> > print add. I got most of the passes rendered at 12000x8400. However I
> > have a few passes that won't go. This is the error message I
> > repeatedly get. I've tried the XSI Split render plug in and it
> > crashes when it goes too render each time. The one pass I did get it
> > to work on crashed when it tried to go the the FXtree to comp the
> > tiles. Also tried rendering subregions and stitching it
> > myself....still won't go. Tried on our farm and locally. Any
> > suggestions. Probaly not enough information to fully explain the
> > problem but this is the error I repeatedly get.
> >
> >
> > 'WARNING : 3083 - No rendering viewer used. Image resolution exceeds
> > display limit.
> > 'INFO : RC 0.2 error 081001: failed to create frame buffer 0:
> > C:\DOCUME~1\chrisj\LOCALS~1\Temp\XSI_Temp_1336/fb000.4.1336 (Not
> > enough storage is available to process this command.)
> >
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