I as well have been having serious issues when going to render out my scenes. I have a P3 with a gig of ram and not to shabby a comp, but they can allways be bigger and better, but not to shabby and I can crash it like a champ. Mine seems to be mesh in terrain to complex. Here is a scene that was rendered out at 1, but that was before I started messing with the terrain. My objective was to while did love what I had, I had wanted the stones to be rounded and not steps, sounds easy right? naw. and after I got it it didn't want to render.
OK low rez version looks like this:
But I was actually after someting a bit different. Then I got what I wanted but it would calculate the dots, then start to render out and crash
bam....So I tried a my main render button and it did the dot calc then BAM.....Screen shot below:
I took the textures out then back in, out, back in, and I finally did a very small render at 320X280 and I0.35 render setting and was able to get a small render out and here is the screen:
I could not no matter how I treid to get a render out with that file.
I have a gig of ram and it looks like it will take 2 gigs of ram to render, not good, I hate it when stuffcrashes and I want that terrain hahahahaha. I have noticed that the render engine seems to be the chink in the armor as they say. I would like to be able to set what 2 render and what the camera does not see shouldn't be rendered, but could not find a gui for that.
It is taking way to much ram to render not just the picture, but what is behind it, I have sat here and watched it, WOW what allot of resources it takes. Funny thing, when I open TG2, my ram goes all the way up to 100% and I am very curious as to why? and that is even before I load a file of any kind into it, it is kinda like Windows Vista that way, needs a gig O ram to run maybe. There should be some kind of setting for that somewhere though, but I couldn't find any.
Other then that and a few problems I am having I do not think is bug related, This program is awesome awesome awesome /smiles broadly. I can only assume that Terragen is working on that issue as it does seem to not be a good thing and a borderline bug at best in my humble artist opinion. it should page those files better I would think, on the other side, I may just need a hell of allot more ram, no one has ever had a program like this so it is hard to judge what is or what should be when driving on the bleeding edge as we all know......and are all driving it at the same time.
DeathTwister aka Maylock