Iray memory analysis tool?

ericolsen

I believe I saw a new tool recently that gives you a breakdown of memory usage for textures etc in a scene. Can anybody remind me of its name, and has it been useful to anyone? I'm getting scattered random sporadic surfaces that render all black, and I'm assuming those are related to memory blowouts, though I'm not seeing such messages in the log file. Reducing textures to 25% of original doesn't seem to be helping much though. I do have Scene Optimizer, but that tool always makes me a bit nervous that I might be using it wrong and original texture files might be getting overwritten. Really I'd just like a breakdown of what is actually causing these random iray failures.

Matt_Castle

I do know of SimTenero's Iray Memory Assistant, but that's not particularly new (and is probably for an old enough version of Iray that I'm not sure how accurate it is any more).

ericolsen

Matt_Castle said:

I do know of SimTenero's Iray Memory Assistant, but that's not particularly new (and is probably for an old enough version of Iray that I'm not sure how accurate it is any more).

Ah, thanks, I'll check that one out regardless! 

 

Charlie Judge

Are you thinking of this: https://www.daz3d.com/scene-analyzer-organizer-simplifier

barbult

Matt_Castle said:

I do know of SimTenero's Iray Memory Assistant, but that's not particularly new (and is probably for an old enough version of Iray that I'm not sure how accurate it is any more).

It was never accurate. There is a commercial thread about is somewhere. Anybody considering wasting money on it should hunt down and thoroughly read that thread instead.

ericolsen

Charlie Judge said:

Are you thinking of this: https://www.daz3d.com/scene-analyzer-organizer-simplifier

I don't remember seeing that one, thanks. Have you used it?