I want one of those new SG workstations that can have 1.024 gig of SDram and @30
Gig HD (over 2 HDs) and with Quad pentium II 450 Mhz motherboards! *GASP!* i would


Ken wrote:

> Dave wrote:
> >
> > Thomas Charron wrote in message <36E0503B.D737C640@nermail.ups.com>...
> > >  I can feel for you..  I have a whoe christmas tree scene that I simply
> > CAN'T render with the tree object in place, due to a lack
> > >of memory..  I actually set up a 750 meg swap partition, and still didn't
> > have enough..  <sigh>
> >
> > Hmmm... a Christmas tree scene minus the tree...  you could render it and
> > give it a title like "The Grinch Stole my Christmas Tree" or something.
> >
> > I've been working on a scene that includes 20 different plant objects I
> > modeled in Plant Sculptor, but they're used over and over so that there's a
> > total of 1003 of them.  The include file that #declare's them alone is
> > something like 90,000 lines...(mostly unions of triangle mesh's).... Then it
> > uses a tree making include file I downloaded from... from... hmmm... I think
> > it was a woman named Sonya or something...I'll have to look at that.. anyway
> > it makes over one hundred calls to that...
> >
> > I left it parsing overnight and it still never finished... I don't know what
> > I was thinking... I've only got 16 megs of ram...  I have gig's of free HD
> > space for swapping, but it still took forever... I ended up cancelling it
> > and am trying to see if my brother's computer can handle it.
> >
> > I'm taking donations for the "Buy Dave A New Pentium III with a 21gig HD and
> > 128+ megs of Ram Fund" if anyone's interested... <G>
> >
> > Ciao!
> > Dave.
>
> I have 128 megs of ram and have no problems over runnuning that.
> Think much, much, more for the scene you describe. 128 megs^10.
>
> --
> Ken Tyler
>
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