- Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:06 pm
#317859
Hello, me again!!
I'm trying to render a stack of 15 speakers for a client. One speaker (80,000 triangles) renders fine and they are all identical, so I thought I'd use Softimage instances (although I have had problems with instances in Maxwell before). I'm rendering at a pretty high res (2048 x 3072) and the error comes in a variety of ways;
- sometimes when I hit render in Softimage the mxs export runs and then Maxwell comes up with an 'encountered an error and needs to close' window immediately
- sometimes if, after this error, you try again the rendering starts and then I get an 'encountered an error and needs to close' windows at a certain sample level; maybe 6, 7 or even 10 - I'm trying to get to 12.
- if I use duplicates instead of instances in Softimage, the mxs exporter fails at about 25% and never even launches Maxwell
There's plenty of RAM; I've got 6GB and Maxwell only seems to be using 500MB (when using instances) in task manager. I'm using Softimage 2010 SP1 (64bit) and Maxwell 2.0.1.0 64bit under Windows XP 64bit SP2.
Any ideas?
I'm trying to render a stack of 15 speakers for a client. One speaker (80,000 triangles) renders fine and they are all identical, so I thought I'd use Softimage instances (although I have had problems with instances in Maxwell before). I'm rendering at a pretty high res (2048 x 3072) and the error comes in a variety of ways;
- sometimes when I hit render in Softimage the mxs export runs and then Maxwell comes up with an 'encountered an error and needs to close' window immediately
- sometimes if, after this error, you try again the rendering starts and then I get an 'encountered an error and needs to close' windows at a certain sample level; maybe 6, 7 or even 10 - I'm trying to get to 12.
- if I use duplicates instead of instances in Softimage, the mxs exporter fails at about 25% and never even launches Maxwell
There's plenty of RAM; I've got 6GB and Maxwell only seems to be using 500MB (when using instances) in task manager. I'm using Softimage 2010 SP1 (64bit) and Maxwell 2.0.1.0 64bit under Windows XP 64bit SP2.
Any ideas?