need help to render scene with 200 lights

September 9th, 2002

Is there any way to render a interior scene in Viz with 200 photometrics lights without crashing the computer.
I need to use that many lights because we are doing a lighting study of the dome in a palace.
Please advise.
Thanks

plastic · September 9th, 2002

define crash...
probably you have not enough ram. you can increase the radiosity meshing size to reduce memory consumption.

September 11th, 2002

There is no problem doing the radiosity calculation, but when I render the actual scene, it stops after rendering partially.
Any advice?

abicalho · September 12th, 2002

Choose Re-Use Direct Illumination in the Radiosity dialogue.

That option will render the direct illumination from the Radiosity mesh and won't re-process shadows and lights. This will make the renderer more memory efficient, but you may lose precision on your shadows.

Alexander | discreet Quality Engineer

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plastic Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: vienna, EU Posts: 314 Name: Marc Lorenz	define crash... probably you have not enough ram. you can increase the radiosity meshing size to reduce memory consumption. __________________ Marc Lorenz http://plugins.angstraum.at My 3d gallery at Flickr

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abicalho Veteran Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: San Francisco Age: 35 Posts: 643 Name: Alex Bicalho	Choose Re-Use Direct Illumination in the Radiosity dialogue. That option will render the direct illumination from the Radiosity mesh and won't re-process shadows and lights. This will make the renderer more memory efficient, but you may lose precision on your shadows. Alexander \| discreet Quality Engineer __________________ Alex Bicalho http://www.origamy.com.br/blog

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