I’m currently working on a small personal project in which the scene file is 31.1mb and about half done. I have no problems rendering or navigating the scene but was wondering what the size limits were, if there was any. I have a relatively beefy computer which consists of:

Mac Pro
Dual quad core (8 core) xeon 2.8 GHZ
12 GB ram
500 GB hard drive
Nvidia Quadro
OS X leopard

Maya 8.5 unltd

At this point I haven’t added foliage yet which will balloon the file size when added.

I plan on rendering with Maya software but mostly stills or maybe a short animation. nothing elaborate.

Thanks
Vlad

I’ve seen scene files over several hundred megabytes (consisting of complex geometry), but would strongly encourage you to keep backups of your file, either thru incremental saves or manually storing a duplicate file elsewhere in case of file corruption.

n8skow [FA]

n8skow,

thanks for the info. I’ve been working the same way since the early 90’s. each day I work on the file I save it with the date in the filename so there’s always multiple copies ready in the event something crashes. Yah, learned that one the hard way.

I didn’t think I was anyway near close to max file size so thanks for the info. I was curious what the max was… looks like I have a ways to go.

Thanks again,
Vladio (Go Penguins!)

Well, I know there is a 2GB max file size limit on Windows (32bit) - no idea what OSX’s max file size is though…
It is worth noting that Maya will only see 4GB of that RAM though (still 32-bit on Mac)

n8skow [FA]