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Slate Material Editor - Bitmap Sequence keeps crashing when loading .png or .jpg (10k)

PalmerStudios — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 16:40:40 GMT

Hello I'm stumped can someone please help me understand what's happening? I am trying to load a sequence of images 10,000 to be exact into a bitmap on the slate material editor. Every time I try to load it regardless of whether I use .png or .jpg it crashes. I have also tried to load .mov but its no longer supported? Some more background the bitmap image dimensions is 4096x4096. Is there a limitation on the dimensions or size? Also I am using 64gb ram and a threadripper with a rtx 3 series card.

Re: Slate Material Editor - Bitmap Sequence keeps crashing when loading .png or .jpg (10k)

10DSpace — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 17:33:12 GMT

@PalmerStudios

"I am trying to load a sequence of images 10,000 to be exact into a bitmap on the slate material editor. Every time I try to load it regardless of whether I use .png or .jpg it crashes."

Your screenshot shows the .ifl loaded into the bitmap slot and the machine hasn't crashed at this point. So does the crash happen a few moments later or do you mean it crashes only when you try to render?

"Is there a limitation on the dimensions or size?"

No limitation on size that I am aware of and certainly not 4096 x 4096; your machine seems beefy enough to handle that.

Some things to try (if you haven't already) to troubleshoot your problem:

1. Try switching to compact material editor and then loading the image sequence. if that avoids crash, then problem is somehow connected with Slate material editor.

2. Try switching the renderer to Arnold and for test purpose loading the sequence into a Physical Material instead of a vray material. This could determine whether this is Vray specific.

Regarding image file format, image sequences are the preferred way to load animations into bitmap slots with max, so .png or .jpg sequences should be fine.

Re: Slate Material Editor - Bitmap Sequence keeps crashing when loading .png or .jpg (10k)

raiden_xavier — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 10:55:02 GMT

Hi @PalmerStudios,

Thanks for sharing your issue with us.

In addition to the suggestions from @10DSpace I would consider the location of the images. Are they on a network or cloud location like OneDrive or Dropbox? They can cause access issues with 3ds Max.

Many thanks.

Regards,