Textures are killing my render!

[ryan-saper]

I am trying to render a model in Maya 2010 with a high poly count and significantly large UV maps. There are about 12 different objects which require large UV maps (about 6000x6000), and some of the materials are SSS shaders for skin and I can't render without mental ray and/or maya crashing. What are some good tips for hi def renders? I've heard of some people turning their textures into data files that are referenced by maya rather than being stored in a cache so that it does not slow down. I do not know how to do this, or if it's even possible. Any help would be great.

p.s. The render also involves hair from shave&haircut and slows things more. 

[joojaa]

Yes bot or map.

In any case why do you think you need the 6000x6000 textures? Thing is too high textures cause atleast as much or slightly more display problems as too small textures, but they are just slower. So use the texture map opttimnizer cg shader and see how deep texels you actually get in your renders. Theres no point in youisng more depth than how much is visible.

[sisha]

in my system i am getting blue screen error. can give me suggestion to solve it.

[deke-kincaid]

Are you running 64 bit Maya?  That might help plus more ram.  Also consider rendering in the commandline without loading up the gui.