Brit
01-28-2009, 01:17 PM
I have been using Zap's split render tool http://mentalraytips.blogspot.com/2007/06/doing-big-renders-in-max-9.html. . It worked well for the first MR render.
However, the second large render (of a similar file - split into 9 sections) produced an image with the colours, texture and tones quite different that the smaller renderings. I tried it twice on this last file, and both times I had different results...both very poor results as compared to the smaller (2000x1500) rendering.
(It also would not stitch together with Photoshop “photomerge”, so it took nearly an hour to splice together and hide the seams.)
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
I did the following as suggested - with a FG map at 2000X1500 locked and saved:
1. Temporarily reduce the resolution of your render to something that renders without memory issues.
2. Turn on FG and tell it to write to file.
3. Set your min/max sampling temporarily to 1/64 and 1/64 for a really fast render (FG quality will not be affected by this!) 4. Render.
5. Set back original sampling (and resolution).
6. Set the FG map to "Read Only"
7. Run the script to do your "split render".
However, the second large render (of a similar file - split into 9 sections) produced an image with the colours, texture and tones quite different that the smaller renderings. I tried it twice on this last file, and both times I had different results...both very poor results as compared to the smaller (2000x1500) rendering.
(It also would not stitch together with Photoshop “photomerge”, so it took nearly an hour to splice together and hide the seams.)
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
I did the following as suggested - with a FG map at 2000X1500 locked and saved:
1. Temporarily reduce the resolution of your render to something that renders without memory issues.
2. Turn on FG and tell it to write to file.
3. Set your min/max sampling temporarily to 1/64 and 1/64 for a really fast render (FG quality will not be affected by this!) 4. Render.
5. Set back original sampling (and resolution).
6. Set the FG map to "Read Only"
7. Run the script to do your "split render".