Bucket size

Sorry for being such a pain this week


Just lost a 3 hour render after light cache do to the handler error (btw according to the listener it was on SR script).

most renders survived when I turn the vrayframebuffer off. but I have one really huge detailed render I need to do really fast before my presentation and that's not enough.

I read something about the bucket size as well. does this has something to do with rendering memory? how (and to what amount) does choosing different bucket size affect in render size, time, quality and stability?

what should I choose and why?

Thanks in advance,

Avi.

I am aware that this might not be an SR issue but I have great respect for you and since any action I take will take SR into consideration I ask about it here as well
(I also ask and look at the cgarchitect forum, but maybe you have some insights regarding SR)


subburb wrote:

try to lower the quality, or manually modify the LC preset and give a bigger LC sample size to avoid ram consuming (ofr ex 0.01 became 0.02). Same thing for irrmap, you can modify -4-1 to -4-2 to have less IM samples, and by the way less ram used.

try to play with the ram options in Vrya, too...

I though you made SR to avoid all that I'll make it a last resort

subburb wrote:

a last thing : make your render 1/2 size, and double it in photoshop + sharpen filter, usually works well

for most renders I lowered my res and used a great software I have for cleaning noise and renders. this big one is a deep-perespective section thorugh the bulding which I want to show at 1:250 scale (1 meter wide) so I need all the detail crisp clear.

Right now I did the /3G switch lowered the bucket size turned all viewports to wireframe and am monitoring my ram (which accually isn't going above 1G even.. lets hope it stays there..)

if all fails I will have to start thinking of lowering the rest, I guess..

thanks for all!

Avi.