FX Tree clips while rendering?

[nohairmonk]

I know the image clips load themselves in memory while rendering. But what about FX Tree clips? Do they load in memory during the rendering of the scene?
If yes: can I render a scene which has an FX Tree?

[atyss]

Hi GrandStrategue,

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I know the image clips load themselves in memory while rendering
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This is true but you can change this if you want. Set the clips to Read From Disk or Broadcast and the textures won't be fully loaded in memory while rendering.

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But what about FX Tree clips? Do they load in memory during the rendering of the scene?
If yes: can I render a scene which has an FX Tree?
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I think you are confusing some concepts here. When you render a FX Tree, you are only outputting pixels that were layered on top of each other, combined with 2D operators. There is no 3D rendering involving geometry crunching, raytracing or anything like that.

The 3D rendering, wich consists of interpreting the 3D scene to create images, has nothing to do with the FX Tree, as long as what you have in the FX Tree is not used as textures or shaders in the 3D scene.

If I missed your point let me know.

Salutations - Cheers
Bernard Lebel

[nohairmonk]

Hi Atyss, sorry for the very long delay.
Actually that's not what I was asking.
I was asking about rendering a 3d scenes to classic, non-FX tree images.
When you render such pictures, all clips from the scene load into memory. I was asking if the FX-tree clips load in memory as well.

[atyss]

Good question, I don't know.

But once again, clips are not required to be loaded in memory during the good old classic 3D rendering.

Cheers
Bernard

[nohairmonk]

Do you set all your clips on "read from disk"?

[atyss]

Only when I have lots of textures, or big ones.

Cheers
Bernard