[morbid angel]

Im about to do a 10k render of a print ad for the car magazine over the weekend, and would like to know how reliable maxwell will be when rendering at such large res. I am going to use -hd option, but more concernted about render time and stability because I only have one shot at this, deadline is on monday

[Maxer]

I woulden't use the render manager to do this, just use a stand alone.

[morbid angel]

yeah thats what i thought....cooperative render is too untrusty at this point. Im more worried about crashing in mid render...since that happens quite often.

[rivoli]

can't tell you anything bout rendertime, i've never rendered anything that big. as long as stability goes i must say i didn't have but a couple of crashes with this last build, and always while doing something else while rendering.
does -mxi:w work with -hd? it would be nice to have the chance to resume the rendering in case something goes wrong.

[Maxer]

I've never done one as big as the one your doing but stability wise Maxwell seems to be ok when running on a single machine.

[morbid angel]

rivoli whats -mxi:w does?

maxer, I have rendered a 150 frame animation of a complex building structure over 4 nodes and had all 4 crash at one time or another.

[rivoli]

rivoli whats -mxi:w does?

it writes a continuable mxi file, it gives you the option to stop and resume a render as many times as you want.
-:mxi:w writes the file, and -mxi:c resumes it.

[morbid angel]

good to know, so if my render craps out i can resume at any time...
how would you specify this on the example?

[rivoli]

just add the command line when you start the rendering the first time:

mxcl -mxs:C:/.../1.mxs -d -mxi:w -t:... -r:... -l... ... -o:C:/.../1.tga

(if you don't specify any output path for the mxi it'll be written where your mxs is)

if anything goes wrong and you have to resume the render just add the mxi resume line:

mxcl -mxs:C:/.../1.mxs -d -mxi:c -mxi:w -t:... -r:... -l... ... -o:C:/.../1.tga

edit:
as i said in my first post i'm not sure it works along with -hd, it should, but i never tried.

[morbid angel]

i c, big thanks

[rivoli]

you're welome. btw, if you need any other info there should be something about it in the manual and in the maxwell_mxcl pdf that you can find in maxwell's installation folder.

[morbid angel]

yeah, and I have adopted most of the mxcl commands, i gues i got this one overlooked.

[mverta]

I wouldn't use an alpha/beta in production.

_Mike

[morbid angel]

i doubdt that would work because whem maxwell crashes it doesnt just close it gives the error window and hangs. So the user cas to close the window inorder to terminate maxwell and it's command prompt, and since the batch would be run in the same command prompt i dont think it would go to next event.

[morbid angel]

maxwell05, I see what you'r getting at. However will this work for 10k render since I most likely need -hd option to render this and as mentioned before will not work with mxi:w