I'm sorry, but it is okay. You need trees out of meshes. Then you can reduce
memory load. Trees made out of spheres or cones need exact multiples of
memory.
I'm not sure with splines for Splinetree, but most of the memory need comes
from the leafes,which are mostly made out of spheres...

Christoph Hormann made a special version of MakeTree which generates memory



Norbert




Tek wrote:
>This maybe a dumb question...
>
>I'm trying to create a forest for my IRTC entry. I initially put in
>placeholders (8000 cones and spheres) which worked fine, but now I've tried
>to replace them with proper trees and I keep running out of memory. Even if
>I reduce it to only 80 trees it still runs out (despite me having 512MB RAM
>and a 2Gig virtual memory file).
>
>I've tried using Splinetree and MakeTree and I get the same problem with
>both. I thought that with pov if you had multiple copies of the same object
>they didn't take up loads of memory, or is that only meshes?
>
>Does anyone know how I can make a forest of 8000 trees without pov trying to
>use 8000 times the memory it needs for one tree?
>
>Any help would be much appreciated
>--
>Tek
>http://www.evilsuperbrain.com
>

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