CGTalk - Mental Ray @ Maya 5

gurkenkopf

06-15-2003, 01:47 AM

Hello
I have some problems with Mental Ray for Maya 5.0 -
It does not work correctly:

1. always when i render a picture with a bigger size then 320 x 160 in combination with FinalGatheing or GlobalIllumination Maya/MR freezes... *

2. always when i render a picture with any size but more then about 2000 polys in combination with FG or GI Maya/MR freezes... *

* = Maya freezes always during the Virtual Frame Buffer calculations and never while calculation photons or other stuff like that.

My Computer:
AMD XP 2400+
1024 MB of RAM
GeForce 4 Ti 4200 (128 MB RAM)
in use with win 2k prof.

Well, i'm not sure if it's realy freezing... but i can not move the Mouse and when i am hearing music while it's frozen i hear a sequence about a half of a secound repeating. And it never stops.

Is this normal? sould i just wait a bit until MR finishes rendering?

THANK YOU

Heber

06-15-2003, 03:12 AM

i always hated the maya renderer it pretty much locks up the whole program and doesnt give you much to do , as for mr freezing try the "diagnostics" and "optimize scene" which might fix some errors, mr in maya tends to be pretty picky , jus to test if its working render out a light scene with a couple spheres and low amount of photons in the FG settings , that shouldnt take long on your machine , that way in a few secs youll know if mr is messed, you could always try re-installing maya , but yeah thats all i can think of sorry :shrug:

brunner

06-15-2003, 03:13 PM

For a start you should tell mr yo give you the progress status.
Choose from render globals ->translation, progress

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