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I am trying to render from Maya 2010 a 700 frame animation at a small size of 384 by 288 pixels with only 256 pixel samples. I can not seem to get the animation to render out fully without crashing no matter what I try.

I have tried on a single card machine (As I thought it was the multiple cards causing the problem.)
I have tired on a machine with 32 gigs of ram and used a variety of cards. (All of which have much more memory than what the scene requires. Its only a 8 megabyte scene.)

I could restart the animation at the frame it left off.... BUT it is a dynamics simulation that runs ever so differently each time it builds its dynamic cache. ( I can see if I can bake out the dynamics so I have "hard" keyframes...) But I have seen quite a few posts about having to render out animations multiple times and am just wondering if it is known what causes these crashes so I can minimize the likely hood of their occurrence. Or if 2.3 has a remedy.

Thanks

Peter

Attached Animation... not sure if these show up they are flash and quicktime h2

Hi,

I'll move this topic to the maya forum as it's likely a maya exporter issue.
Can you identify what's using up the memory ? is the maya process growing ?

Radiance

Thanks Radiance
I'm not sure I have been watching the Windows task manager Performance and Memory used is not changing that much.

Are there any logs that I can look at that would give you more information.

Peter

Try to export one great obj from Maya, mabye 100MB or so.
To export use the Maya obj export, not the script.
Make this 5 or 10 times.
Only export, not render.
Look at the ram.
When all is ok, use the script and export with that 5-10 times, without to render.
After that, look at the ram again.

If the Maya obj export has a leak, you will see it with the first try.
Have the script a leak, you will see it with the second one.

face

thanks will give that a try