POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Memory usage : Re: Memory usage Server Time
19 Apr 2024 06:46:21 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Memory usage  
From: Mike Horvath
Date: 2 Feb 2018 20:38:07
Message: <5a75127f$1@news.povray.org>
On 2/2/2018 4:10 PM, Roland Melkert wrote:
> Mike Horvath <mik### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> Here is the top of my POV-Ray file.
>> // Generated by L3P v1.4 BETA 20131202 (Win32)  (C) 1998-2013 Lars C.
> 
> This is the one I rendered yesterday (@1920x1080 in about 12 mins using only
> 32MB)
> http://www.melkert.net/action/download/datsville528MasterPov.7z
> 6MB 7zip containing 84MB pov file
> 
> Haven't used L3P in a very long time, but I think L3P generated meshes for every
> single .dat, in LDCad I generate meshes per high level part (basically just
> dumping the OpenGL data).
> 
> This export was done with the upcomming LDCad 1.6b, but you can also use 1.6a to
> make your own export. You only might need to fix some missing object references
> resulting from empty models used (I fixed that in 1.6b)
> 
> 

Wow, that is so much better! I don't even have to inline the model or 
replace parts with boxes.

The render time is roughly the same. But the parse time is just a few 
seconds versus 10-15 minutes. And it barely uses any memory!

Thanks so much!


Mike


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