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Pierre Burrin

started a topic over 5 years ago

First I have to admit that I'm a novice with Cinema 4D, so excuse me in advance if you find my questions are from a total noob. :-)

I have downloaded hi res pictures and I use them as tiles textures for DEM Earth. Each picture is approximatively 500 MB. I have noticed that the maximum number of pictures I can apply to a scene are between seven or height, before Cinema 4D or my Graphic Card driver crashes.

My Nvidia graphic card has 3Gb of memory, so I think the crashes are related to that limit. Am I right ?

Is there a solution to bypass that limit ?

I guess buying a Graphic Card with more memory is one of them, but which Graphic Card would you recommend for working with Hi Res textures in Cinema4D on a PC ?

And without changing the Graphic Card, is there a plugin available for Cinema 4D that permit to bypass that limit ? Or using an external renderer like V-Ray ?

Or maybe using a Render farm ?

Thanks in advance for your advice.

Pierre

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Paul said over 5 years ago

there are physical limitations to what cinema4d can manage as image textures. The graphics card is the limiting factor.

C4D is limited to 256 materials. but I don't think there is any real limit at render time. what you can do is simply reduce the resolution of the preview.

This is not a DEM Earth issue, it is a C4D texture management issue.

Paul

said over 5 years ago

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there are physical limitations to what cinema4d can manage as image textures. The graphics card is the limiting factor.

C4D is limited to 256 materials. but I don't think there is any real limit at render time. what you can do is simply reduce the resolution of the preview.

This is not a DEM Earth issue, it is a C4D texture management issue.

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Roger Erby

said over 5 years ago

Pierre,
Im curious, how did you correlate (register) your 500mb image to the Geometry Dem Earth provided of that region...

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Pierre Burrin

said over 5 years ago

Hi Roger,

I'm using 'Ultimate Maps Downloader' to download Imagery and generate a corresponding ESRI World File. Then you simply open the World file in Cinema 4D and DEM Earth make the magic happens. :-)

Pierre

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