Rendering huge image - error - render swap file

[joaomontenegro]

hmmm - I am trying to render a very large image - 7720x4486 pixels. however, it always errors out. It must have something to do with the size of the image because it renders a normal size no problem. It's also strange that it does not seem to be writing to the render log.

Anyway the error I get from the command line is:

Warning: unable to write the render swap file c:pathnametemp
MS.794, no error
Error: an error has occurred. Rendering aborted.

gotta love that, no error, error.

I can only think that it has something to do with the swap file. but im not sure what that is.

Any ideas?

[deke-kincaid]

Sounds like your running out of hard drive space on your c: drive where maya writes temp files as it renders.

If thats not it try rendering you image in sections. Look in the command line render reference in the docs.