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20 Nov 2024 08:35:12 EST (-0500)
  Re: maketree dummyscene  
From: Francois Dispot
Date: 22 Sep 2001 19:31:57
Message: <3BAD1F5A.921EECC7@club-internet.fr>
Norbert Kern wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a silly problem.
> This is a dummy background for my next (hopefully) IRTC entry.
> Problem is memory consumption. This little scene with 6 houses (from Gilles

> are placed and randomly rotated within a while loop) needs whooping 830 MB
> peak memory.
> One single tree consumes only about 21 MB.
> A 3.5 bug?
> Does anybody know more ?
> 
> Norbert

How many light_sources have you got?

In several scenes featuring tens of light sources, I found that
switching light buffers off dramatically decreased memory consumption.
Concerning rendering time, the impact was not that terrible, but I might
have been lucky.
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