RENDERING!!! :(

Hi Steve,

I'm glad you are keeping up with this, because this is an important issue! Sort of makes getting the Professional version overkill. In it's current state (for anyone on the fence), I would not recommend the Pro version until they get this resolved.

I've had some success recently- at least with some of the well known filters (chain mail, tiles, scale armor). As suggested by support- I ran it through photoshop and have successfully rendered a 4k image, 8k image, 10k image, and currently rendering a 12k image (started this morning).

Here's some tech details:
Platform: Win 8 Pro
Software: Adobe Photoshop CS6 64bit (latest version)
Plugin: Filter 4 (latest version)

a) After creating a new Document in Adobe (sized in pixels), I add a new layer and save the project.

b) I select the Filter Forge 4 filter/plugin through the adobe menu (this launches Filter Forge 4)

c) I verify the Render settings in filter forge are set to single cpu, and set the memory to 80% available.

d) I select whatever filter I want to try out, make sure "seamless texture" is selected, and click "apply".

e) As it renders out (which takes most of the day 10+ hours for the 10K), Adobe Photoshop becomes unresponsive. The only indicator is that popup window in Photoshop that shows rendering progress.

I haven't had one error since I started doing this. Keeping my fingers crossed the 12k renders out okay.

I know not everyone has Photoshop, but just thought I'd post my experience with Filter Forge. As a standalone app, high resolution textures never worked for me. As a plugin to Photoshop- seems to work pretty good.. but I'll know more when I start experimenting with more process heavy filters.

If anyone has any filters they'd like me to try out as a test, let me know.
Regards~

Here's a possible fix for the Bad Allocation error:
http://www.filterforge.com/forum/read...&TID=10903