how to manage video memory...

[pixelinfected]

the weak point of gpu render is vmem.
if scene is too big i cannot add new mem to computer, or i reduce the scene or i change vcard...

ok, how can manage the size of my scene?
how can calculate how many memory use my mesh? voxelizzation process and more?
i think that for textures is simple, i check them with uncompressed format or in photoshop and i can understand how many memory use, but about other parts of scene?
i have some way to manage this check?

[bepeg4d]

go to preferences/cuda device and you can find detailed information about the geometry and the textures in your scene
ciao beppe

[pixelinfected]

thanks a lot

[face_off]

The Poser plugin comes with a script to compress one, some or all texturemaps, and a number of macros for removing bump maps, or converting them to texturemaps.

Paul

[ROUBAL]

The Poser plugin comes with a script to compress one

Compression of textures is useless and leads only to loss of quality as Octane uses uncompressed images.

[badmilk69]

[face_off]

Compression of textures is useless and leads only to loss of quality as Octane uses uncompressed images.

My apologies - I meant texture compression as in reduces the texturemap size (ie. from 2000x2000 to 1500x1500) to save VRAM.

Paul