Ultra Scenery is crashing my renders

reflectivewanderer

I have a RTX 2070 and 32gb of RAM. I'm new to daz and picked up https://www.daz3d.com/ultrascenery--realistic-landscape-system The scene I created has thousands of instances of trees and rocks. They are all in groups that I don't want to get rid of because it doesn't suit my scene, and it doesnt look like i can individually target single items outside the camera frame. Any advice on what to do ?

Richard Haseltine

What is Instance Optimisation set to in the Editor tab of Render Settings - it should be Memory for this (though the default Auto will probably do that) and definitely not speed.

reflectivewanderer

Richard Haseltine said:

What is Instance Optimisation set to in the Editor tab of Render Settings - it should be Memory for this (though the default Auto will probably do that) and definitely not speed.

I will check that setting when I get home from work.

Daventaki

Also make sure you are not using iray preview.

Paintbox

Daventaki said:

Also make sure you are not using iray preview.

Yeah really important as well, as well as the memory setting

reflectivewanderer

Paintbox said:

Daventaki said:

Also make sure you are not using iray preview.

Yeah really important as well, as well as the memory setting

I think the file may be corrupted actually. It kept saying that it failed to save my scene and I had to make a new save twice

reflectivewanderer

Daventaki said:

Also make sure you are not using iray preview.

Do you mean the preview of the render as it is rendering? Or the viewport preview?

Daventaki

reflectivewanderer said:

Daventaki said:

Also make sure you are not using iray preview.

Do you mean the preview of the render as it is rendering? Or the viewport preview

viewport preview

reflectivewanderer

Daventaki said:

reflectivewanderer said:

Daventaki said:

Also make sure you are not using iray preview.

Do you mean the preview of the render as it is rendering? Or the viewport preview

viewport preview

Well I got it to render by dropping the resolution, but then I added a new figure and now when I hit render I just get a black render instantly. I reloaded a previous save of the scene and it renders a black frame. Any idea how to fix this new issue?

Daventaki

When mine renders to black it is because it ran out of vram (I have render to CPU off).  There are a couple of ways to help reduce instances in US, there is a camera view in US that you can check and it will only place instances in the field of view from the camera, hiding various groups of instances like rocks or leaves.

Cameras:  https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5810826/#Comment_5810826
Tips:  https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5740741/#Comment_5740741
         https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5758476/#Comment_5758476

 

Theres a link in my signature to a list of some US tips, tricks etc.  Lots of useful information.  (I have gotten behind on updating it though)

reflectivewanderer

Daventaki said:

When mine renders to black it is because it ran out of vram (I have render to CPU off).  There are a couple of ways to help reduce instances in US, there is a camera view in US that you can check and it will only place instances in the field of view from the camera, hiding various groups of instances like rocks or leaves.

Cameras:  https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5810826/#Comment_5810826
Tips:  https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5740741/#Comment_5740741
         https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5758476/#Comment_5758476

 

Theres a link in my signature to a list of some US tips, tricks etc.  Lots of useful information.  (I have gotten behind on updating it though)

Thank you so much for the links. I didn't go into them in detail since I have little time but the camera preset content I think will be super helpful