[Fernando Tella]

Sorry Tim.

I'm sure you can make the triangles count go higher.



Memory usage for mxcl was near 3.5GB; 3dsmax around 2.5GB.

[NicoR44]

lol

[devista]

la leche

[tom]

There's no triangles like there's no spoon now

[Tim Ellis]

Wow.



Congratulations.

Have you tried a limit yet? Can your machine cope with 20million?

Tim.

[Fernando Tella]

Thanks Tim.

I have not tryed yet.

I'm quite intrigued though why max crashes (out of memory) with some finished scenes with ~1.5mill triangles (more textures and more objects) but without using all the memory. Maybe something to do with virtual memory.

[Leonardo]

I don't see any triangles.... only marbles

[Fernando Tella]

Here they are, well, in fact we can't see the triangles but the polygons.

[ivox3]

Hey Fernando ....

Just a few questions ....

Which OS? .....and was that 3.5GB's all physical ram?

I can't seem to get mxcl to use over 2gb's with x64 ? ....always stops at 2GB physical and then begins using virtual/paging memory ..... ?

[Fernando Tella]

Are you playing with your new monster limits?

I'm using XP64 too. The windows task manager showed ~3.5GB though I increased virtual memory up to 8184MB (it is 2048MB by default).

I'll try to repeat the test increasing the polys a bit, let's see what happens.

[ivox3]

I am.

I'm finding that Studio is horribly slow(latent) with x64 .....?

Are you noticing anything similar?

It takes me about 3-5minutes in-between mouse-clicks....

thx for the info ....

[Fernando Tella]

I have to make a correction. Memory usage probably was around 3.2GB cause I have made a new test (and succesful ) with 15600012 polys and it went up to 3.3GB.
I've tryed with 16080012 polys and it crashes, but just a while after starting voxelization and with much lower memory usage.

I'll provide some screenshots in a while.

Slow Studio? Without heavy geometry loaded? Nop. Works fine here.

[ivox3]

hmmmmm ... interesting. Keep us posted ..... I know you will.

[Fernando Tella]

New record!!

The scene is basically the same but with one half floor added:

50 x 50 x 6.5 = 16250 marbles x 960 triangles per marble = 15600000 triangles + 12 box triangles = 15600012 triangles

Peak memory consumption:

http://www.ftella.com/links/16millpolysmemory.jpg

Mxcl with scene data tab:

http://www.ftella.com/links/16millpolysrender.jpg

Wires:

http://www.ftella.com/links/16millpolyswires.jpg

I tryed with 5 more rows on top floor and it crashed. It seems that mxcl looks for the needed free memory space when voxelitation starts; if there's not enough --> crash.

The render was launched from mxcl loading the exported mxs file.

Cheers!

[ivox3]

Well done Fernando ....!

A little under 3 hours, 15mil tri's, ...dielectric material ....pretty good I'd say.



Now I'm 8 million or so triangles behind .....