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future14

06-16-2005, 04:18 PM

Hi guys, is there any suggestion or guide on how to set the -swap_dir and -swap_limit to improve the memory usage when rendering with MentalRay? I'm actually render some fine displacement with only 1GB of physical memory on my machine.... and i think the -swap_dir and -swap_limit provide better solution to swap the cache to disk.... i'm using Maya 6.5... i hope the functions r not only limited to mentalray standalone.....:(

thnx

future14

06-17-2005, 05:21 AM

i've tried to add mentalray custom text, but couldn't work, maybe it shouldn't work there way though.... is there any suggestion?

floze

06-17-2005, 05:52 AM

Global customtext only gets written out to a true .mi export I guess. However you probably could forward it to the actual mi stream maya is spitting out when hitting render by using the API. Francesca Luce has had great success with that. Maybe drop her a pm, and if she has the time and leisure for it she might have a look at the problem.

If you find a solution, dont hesitate to post it in here. I'll be more than grateful. :)

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