- Mon Jan 26, 2009 12:20 pm
#290257
Hi, I'm currently working on a jewellery store and the number of watches, etc. is really driving up the RAM usage!
Normally when I do interiors I render multiple views of the scene by setting a handful of frames and moving the camera per frame and then rendering it as a mini 'animation' (without motion blur!). The only problem with this method is that when you hit Render Current Pass in XSI, it exports the specified frames as mxs files (which is what I want) but it then starts up mxcl and starts to render the first frame.
This works fine for normal scenes but with this one, the RAM usage is so high that I immediately go to swapfile and the computer grinds to a halt.
Is there anyway to get XSI to export the mxs files but then NOT start rendering them immediately. I want to close down XSI after it has exported them (to free up 1.5GB of RAM!) and then use a batch file to render the exported mxs files, one by one. I've turned off all the channels in the MaxwellRenderOptions within XSI but it still opens up mxcl and starts Voxelizing.
P.S. I've ordered more RAM but wanted to know if there was a simple fix in the shot term!
Normally when I do interiors I render multiple views of the scene by setting a handful of frames and moving the camera per frame and then rendering it as a mini 'animation' (without motion blur!). The only problem with this method is that when you hit Render Current Pass in XSI, it exports the specified frames as mxs files (which is what I want) but it then starts up mxcl and starts to render the first frame.
This works fine for normal scenes but with this one, the RAM usage is so high that I immediately go to swapfile and the computer grinds to a halt.
Is there anyway to get XSI to export the mxs files but then NOT start rendering them immediately. I want to close down XSI after it has exported them (to free up 1.5GB of RAM!) and then use a batch file to render the exported mxs files, one by one. I've turned off all the channels in the MaxwellRenderOptions within XSI but it still opens up mxcl and starts Voxelizing.
P.S. I've ordered more RAM but wanted to know if there was a simple fix in the shot term!