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AJLynn · January 29th, 2006

You've got Vray handling 200 million polys? I'm impressed. But maybe there's a better way to handle your trees - 400k is a heck of a lot, unless they're your subject matter and you're doing close-ups of them.

The most complex model I've worked on recently has all of downtown Boston, and that's 429k faces.

I know mr has an Instance function but I don't know how/if that works well with Max. And mr's GI calc time is pretty much geometry independent, so if you can get it to load you should be able to render it.

January 29th, 2006	#4 (permalink)
AJLynn Moderator Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Beantown Age: 30 Posts: 4,550 Name: Andrew Lynn	Re: How does mental ray handle heavy geometry scenes ? You've got Vray handling 200 million polys? I'm impressed. But maybe there's a better way to handle your trees - 400k is a heck of a lot, unless they're your subject matter and you're doing close-ups of them. The most complex model I've worked on recently has all of downtown Boston, and that's 429k faces. I know mr has an Instance function but I don't know how/if that works well with Max. And mr's GI calc time is pretty much geometry independent, so if you can get it to load you should be able to render it.