POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : POV has Limits? : Re: POV has Limits? Server Time
21 Jun 2024 01:58:59 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV has Limits?  
From: Leroy
Date: 25 Sep 2014 12:39:25
Message: <5424453d@news.povray.org>
jhu wrote:
> Leroy <lrw### [at] joplincom> wrote:
>> I was playing around with building a space station the other day.
>> It had around 300,000 blocks. It render fine and fairly fast. So I
>> thought it be nice to replace hose blocks with buildings and city
>> streets. I used Chris Colefax City builder, made a city and replace
>> every block with it. Of course it crashed. I really didn't pay attention
>> to the number of objects in the city.
>> It turned out to over 5 thousand so I know I POV 3.7 has a limit of a
>> billion objects!
> 
> Or did you hit your computer's memory limit?
> 
> Happens to me sometimes when I forget to close a loop and it runs until memory
> runs out.
> 
> 
Yep, that's what happened! I just reran it to check.
So POV has no limits! ;)
But, I do! :)


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