Becraft, Robert wrote:

> "Zesty" <tac### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> I was on the povcomp website looking (okay, drooling) at the grand prize
>> and at the bottom of the description, it mentions that it can be used to
>> render scenes that would be "impossible with only 4 gig of memory
>> (paraphrased)."
>>
>> I admit to being very much a novice with Povray, but what scenes take
>> more than 4 gig of memory? Has anyone worked on such things, and are they
>> in the hall of fame? :)

Also, I recently found that doing fur (with the MayaFur include) -really-
eats RAM - I've got 512 (which is about average to low these days) and
doing even a small patch of fur, dense enough to look nice, is almost
impossible.

But additionally, I might just not know how to use MayaFur well enough yet.
But that's another one - fur implies tens or hundreds of thousands of
objects, and the more RAM you have, the better and more fur you can render.
I suspect!

-- 
Stefan Viljoen
Software Support Technician
Polar Design Solutions

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