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mindsample
07-28-2008, 11:25 AM
Hi,

I have had this problem numerous times on different machines and mudbox licenses, I export a displacement map and the process seems to not produce any erros, "map extraction finishes without errors" ... but the file that is written out is 1kb in size, so obviously something went wrong.

Has anybody had similar problems? I think it has something to do with being near the memory limit, i.e. I tried to export a 5k map and ran out of RAM, then went down to 4k where it actually seemed to finish the extraction but then the file was only 1kb.

If I go down to 2k I get a proper file but obviously the resolution is not enough. I got 16gigs of ram and even though mudbox is 32bit appliactoin it should have all the ram it can address available.
Simon
08-15-2008, 02:00 PM
Hi,

I have had this problem numerous times on different machines and mudbox licenses, I export a displacement map and the process seems to not produce any erros, "map extraction finishes without errors" ... but the file that is written out is 1kb in size, so obviously something went wrong.

Has anybody had similar problems? I think it has something to do with being near the memory limit, i.e. I tried to export a 5k map and ran out of RAM, then went down to 4k where it actually seemed to finish the extraction but then the file was only 1kb.

If I go down to 2k I get a proper file but obviously the resolution is not enough. I got 16gigs of ram and even though mudbox is 32bit appliactoin it should have all the ram it can address available.

Its probably the memory limit on the software. I will try when I get home and let you know if it works.

how much VM memory is it using in the task manager?
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