Hi,
I want to ask for some workflow, if you want to render
50, 140 or 240 mil. polygons bgeo file?
With 50mil poly Mantra use 11GB of memory, with 140 mantra killl my workstation( 24GB).
With instance everything is great 9 trees * 50 000 instance
4500mil polygons - PBR 9min per frame, this is amazing.
But with one big bgeo file…
Igor
Render 50-240 mil polygons bgeo file???
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Hi Ceegee,
I feel your pain. Rendering such a large Object (both in space, and complexity) can be a nightmare.
Make sure there are no attributes on there you don't want. Just P, possibly N, and v. Consider breaking the Grid into several different grids so that Mantra only has to load one at a time.
Most importantly though, I'd recommend using Displacement maps. Most approaches I've seen in the past (including my own) Generate a low res grid, then apply the high detail at render time.
Good luck, and curious to hear how you solve it!
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I feel your pain. Rendering such a large Object (both in space, and complexity) can be a nightmare.
Make sure there are no attributes on there you don't want. Just P, possibly N, and v. Consider breaking the Grid into several different grids so that Mantra only has to load one at a time.
Most importantly though, I'd recommend using Displacement maps. Most approaches I've seen in the past (including my own) Generate a low res grid, then apply the high detail at render time.
Good luck, and curious to hear how you solve it!
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Huh, with out seeing that picture, I would say why are you splashes in the same geo as the surface.
With seeing the picture, I now say, why don't I render them together?!
I agree that this is a memory management scenario. I've never had much luck brute forcing these scenarios in the past. Remember you're not making 2 different renders, just multiple pieces of geo in the same render to load one at a time. Splitting things up is lame, but I am always keen to learn of new techniques I have missed!
Looks good, hope to see it rendered one day!
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With seeing the picture, I now say, why don't I render them together?!
I agree that this is a memory management scenario. I've never had much luck brute forcing these scenarios in the past. Remember you're not making 2 different renders, just multiple pieces of geo in the same render to load one at a time. Splitting things up is lame, but I am always keen to learn of new techniques I have missed!
Looks good, hope to see it rendered one day!
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Very nice looking picture there!
Our back-of-the-envelope estimates suggest your memory usages are to be expected. Which makes us sad, as we'd like to be able to render that sort of thing!
Could you please very kindly submit the high res file for our analysis? Hopefully we can use it to guide our optimization efforts. Or just brute-force it on a machine with lots of RAM.
If you could send it to: ftp.sidefx.com and let us know the file name, it would be quite appreciated. If it is the reproducible output from a sim, we can re-sim at as well if that cuts bandwidth.
Our back-of-the-envelope estimates suggest your memory usages are to be expected. Which makes us sad, as we'd like to be able to render that sort of thing!
Could you please very kindly submit the high res file for our analysis? Hopefully we can use it to guide our optimization efforts. Or just brute-force it on a machine with lots of RAM.
If you could send it to: ftp.sidefx.com and let us know the file name, it would be quite appreciated. If it is the reproducible output from a sim, we can re-sim at as well if that cuts bandwidth.
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Hi Jacob,
I am already optimizing as much as i can, but sometime you need to render big amount of polygons, for example Vray render 35mil poly vrmesh with 2GB of ram. So i hope we can do same thing with Houdini.
Hi jlait,
thanks a lot i really appreciate it.
And this is first render, everything is low res.
http://www.igorfx.com/houdini/igor_water_RND_v001.mov [igorfx.com]
I am already optimizing as much as i can, but sometime you need to render big amount of polygons, for example Vray render 35mil poly vrmesh with 2GB of ram. So i hope we can do same thing with Houdini.
Hi jlait,
thanks a lot i really appreciate it.
And this is first render, everything is low res.
http://www.igorfx.com/houdini/igor_water_RND_v001.mov [igorfx.com]
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I can second this memory problem with mantra (which is a big problem, were constantly fighting this issue).
Were doing heavy fluid sims right now for a feature production and when having highres fluid meshes of 100+ mil polys there is no way to render on a 24GB farm node, even 48GB blades is having trouble sometimes when having a single big bgeo. We have tested same geo in Renderman and it just eats millions of polys for breakfast while mantra eats the ram instead hehe.
Were doing heavy fluid sims right now for a feature production and when having highres fluid meshes of 100+ mil polys there is no way to render on a 24GB farm node, even 48GB blades is having trouble sometimes when having a single big bgeo. We have tested same geo in Renderman and it just eats millions of polys for breakfast while mantra eats the ram instead hehe.
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Hi jlait,
I don't have access to FTP, so I have upload files to my website i hope this is ok.
Mantra use 11-12GB
http://www.igorfx.com/houdini/ocean_50mil.rar [igorfx.com]
Mantra use 24GB+
http://www.igorfx.com/houdini/ocean_140mil.rar [igorfx.com]
Thanks a lot, i realy want to render this with houdini.
Igor
I don't have access to FTP, so I have upload files to my website i hope this is ok.
Mantra use 11-12GB
http://www.igorfx.com/houdini/ocean_50mil.rar [igorfx.com]
Mantra use 24GB+
http://www.igorfx.com/houdini/ocean_140mil.rar [igorfx.com]
Thanks a lot, i realy want to render this with houdini.
Igor
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Hi Andrew
Still same problem kd-tree 0.5, 0.25, 0.1, 0.01 same problem
When i press render mplay using 5GB then on creating geometry mantra use another 5GB and render start.
If i use small patch of ocean 1mil ( bgeo seq) and then in houdini make 50 geo nodes and use this seq as delayed load, but move geo nodes to make one big surface mantra use 0.5GB of ram
- whale_rnd.jpg
With point instancing everything great 5 trees 90 000 per tree * 50 000
4500mil,i know instance use less memory.
Still same problem kd-tree 0.5, 0.25, 0.1, 0.01 same problem
When i press render mplay using 5GB then on creating geometry mantra use another 5GB and render start.
If i use small patch of ocean 1mil ( bgeo seq) and then in houdini make 50 geo nodes and use this seq as delayed load, but move geo nodes to make one big surface mantra use 0.5GB of ram
- whale_rnd.jpg
With point instancing everything great 5 trees 90 000 per tree * 50 000
4500mil,i know instance use less memory.
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I got your files, thank you.
They really highlight the inefficiencies of our polygon soup format. This is something Andrew knows about and was pushing to get fixed with a poly-patch style primitive, but it did not make it for Houdini 12.
For example, by tristripping the 145,590,048 poly file I end up with 10,208 tristrips - a rather significant reduction! Vertex count also drops from 436 million to 145 million.
ginfo -M -T values (which match what mantra takes) report
11.19GB - poly
1.36GB - tristrip
Unfortunately, the tristrip sop took > 160 GB of RAM, so it isn't something to try at home.
They really highlight the inefficiencies of our polygon soup format. This is something Andrew knows about and was pushing to get fixed with a poly-patch style primitive, but it did not make it for Houdini 12.
For example, by tristripping the 145,590,048 poly file I end up with 10,208 tristrips - a rather significant reduction! Vertex count also drops from 436 million to 145 million.
ginfo -M -T values (which match what mantra takes) report
11.19GB - poly
1.36GB - tristrip
Unfortunately, the tristrip sop took > 160 GB of RAM, so it isn't something to try at home.
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One thing we do/did, in H8 days and before, is use the camera settings to render in blocks, cutting the image up into smaller pieces. I don't know if that technique will work with one massive piece of geometry but it works great when you split stuff into lots of models.
You would think internally mantra was doing the same optimisation but that never seemed to be the case. It was the only way we could render massive files inside the now really old limit of 1Gb (huh remember those good old days fondly)
You would think internally mantra was doing the same optimisation but that never seemed to be the case. It was the only way we could render massive files inside the now really old limit of 1Gb (huh remember those good old days fondly)
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I think this will be a more common issue for many, since its now possible to simulate and mesh very hires fluidsims.
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Thanks sl0throp.
Hi Simon, yes i try that also but i think that problem is that mantra load full geo in ram, and then use that for render.
As Korhon, this can be major problem for rendering big and detail splashes.
imagine that you need to render 78-80mil poly river
This is one simple example with 20mil and all layers.
My old naiad sim and h12 PBR render.
http://www.igorfx.com/houdini/flood_PBR.mov [igorfx.com]
Igor
Hi Simon, yes i try that also but i think that problem is that mantra load full geo in ram, and then use that for render.
As Korhon, this can be major problem for rendering big and detail splashes.
imagine that you need to render 78-80mil poly river
This is one simple example with 20mil and all layers.
My old naiad sim and h12 PBR render.
http://www.igorfx.com/houdini/flood_PBR.mov [igorfx.com]
Igor
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Hi CeeGee,
I hope this isn't too off topic. Can you talk about the shading techniques you're using?
Are you using uniform volumes to get the light attenuation in your refractions? The whale render is working really nicely for that.
Also are you using vorticity or velocity to drive the shading on the particles or the core mesh?
Keep up the great work!
I hope this isn't too off topic. Can you talk about the shading techniques you're using?
Are you using uniform volumes to get the light attenuation in your refractions? The whale render is working really nicely for that.
Also are you using vorticity or velocity to drive the shading on the particles or the core mesh?
Keep up the great work!
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Another offtopic! 8)
Have to done any comparisons between naiad and h12 flip Igor? I find the new flipsolver to be very fast, but i dont got any naiad experience to compare with.
Ive made a flip foam tool that works like naiads splash paricles. Im guessing naiad can create foam particles much faster than houdini pops, since they dont thread.
Have to done any comparisons between naiad and h12 flip Igor? I find the new flipsolver to be very fast, but i dont got any naiad experience to compare with.
Ive made a flip foam tool that works like naiads splash paricles. Im guessing naiad can create foam particles much faster than houdini pops, since they dont thread.
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Hi burgess3d,
There is nothing special in my render, everything is standard mantra surface, with one sunlight and envlight.
Velocity and vorticity in this example is just particle render with color from this attributes and use later in comp.
And for splash in naiad i generate normal from fluid and transfer to splash particles and on geo node i use render as point and use normal for render.
Igor
There is nothing special in my render, everything is standard mantra surface, with one sunlight and envlight.
Velocity and vorticity in this example is just particle render with color from this attributes and use later in comp.
And for splash in naiad i generate normal from fluid and transfer to splash particles and on geo node i use render as point and use normal for render.
Igor
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