Settings For Rendering A Huge Image

[lakhotia_vinay]

I want to render large output resoulution images at 300 dpi:
7016x4961 (A2)

or go even larger at 9933x7016 pixels (A1)
and 14043x9933 (A0)

I am making big images for posters and have a series of images that I want to execute.

I am using Paint Effects for much of the imagery, is there a limit to how large I can go with PE? There must be a flag somewhere that I have not yet come across.

I have a dual 3.0GHz system with 2 GB of RAM so I don't think the problem is hardware related.

Any suggestions?

[sanny]

Hi,

When i read your message i couln't resist the tentation. I opened maya, created a sphere and open the renderGlobals setting. I just set the resolution to something like 14'000x10'000 and i hit render.

Well, my systen just shut down maya !

Have fun with your crazy-resolution ideas..
.. i'll keep working with no more than 1024x768 pixels.

TheWebAgent

[drblacksnake]

thats a pity because this means You cannot have images for large prints.

[doms]

There is an old script that will render parts of a camera film gate (then photoshop it back together), will let you know if and when i find it. Or try just adjusting the film gate manually, good luck!

[joojaa]

you dont happen to mean this page:

http://www.highend3d.com/boards/index.php?...ic=149586&st=30

I mean i used to use the batch whan i freelanced. Offcourse would be better on aa if i woulcd calculate the overlap. Ill include the windows batch file that can help you on this for a convinence here. Be sure to chek the note after!

CODE
@echo off

:: example by Janne Ojala 2003
:: make variables for for this batch only

setlocal

:: calculate the tile size and set the variables named ones

set /a x=%1/%3
set /a y=%2/%4
set xsize=%1
set ysize=%2
set xstep=%3
set ystep=%4
set name=%5

::shift 5 times to make room for additional switces at the end

shift
shift
shift
shift
shift

:: Do insane nestled loop
:: some of the foor are ther just to evaluate a set /a
:: command, wich otherwise wont evaluate inside for!
:: broken down the for loop to be nicer for edits

for /L %%i in (%x%,%x%,%xsize%) do ^
for /F %%a IN ('set /a %%i-1') do ^
for /F %%j IN ('set /a %%i-%x%') do ^
for /L %%k in (%y%,%y%,%ysize%) do ^
for /F %%l IN ('set /a %%k-%y%') do ^
for /F %%b IN ('set /a %%k-1') do ^
for /F %%n IN ('set /a ^(%%k/%y%^)+^(%%i/%x% -1^)*%xstep%')do ^
render -x %xsize% -y %ysize% -xl %%j -xr %%a -yl %%l -yr %%b -im %name%%%n ^
%1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

endlocal

IPORTANT NOTE: its abit sensitive so if you copypaste it make sure the ^ marksa re followed by line change IMMIDEATLEY and thet theres no space after them. The forum has atendency to add them.

its a bit of a spagetti soulution i made, you may need to update the actual flags to work on newer mayas. as this batch is form 2003.

[doms]

Thanks for that, i'm pretty crap at using flags but i assume i write a pre render mel script, i'll give it a try and read the manual.

[treeshark]

I've had problems with this as well, I'm rendering 8000 pixels high for huge billboards the worst is the width is 32000! My solution has been to make the frame 8000 high and 1000 wide and then animate the Film offset of the camera over 32 frames. you have up join the files up in a Photoshop file (or with my monster 2 files) but they fit together with no problem.