lightwave falls out of ram

[bagou01]

hi,
i started texturing a hires model of a plane for a HD render, and therefore,i have to have hi def textures (the main body is a 6000/6000 texture)
but once i load that TGA, lightwave won't open anymore picture file,telling me that the format is unknown etc etc... (which doesn't happen when i don't load the big 6000 tga)
i guess that must be a ram problem,
is there a way to bypass that? (i have 8G ram,but win32 only recognises 2)

[Phil]

Run a 64 bit OS (e.g. Win XP 64 or Vista 64), or invest in infiniMap (www.infinimap.com). Or both :)

I'd seriously recommend infiniMap, although you'll need to convert your texture into one of the supported image formats.

[bagou01]

mmh it seems nice. but i can't figure out how the software will let me use unlimited size textures without falling out of ram..... and it's 300 euros,so i'd better be sure before i buy.
do you use it?

[bagou01]

and i quite don't understand:
i managed to ultra optimize my texture,having them to pass from 100Mo to 3.7 Mo with photoshop,almost lossless, and when opening these very small files in lightwave,it turns it to a 200 mo file. :s
even a jpg of 300Ko turns into a 50mo file in lightwave (i see that in the picture editor in the top right corner)

[BeeVee]

That's because JPGs are compressed - an image's size on disk has very little to do with its size in memory. JPG is also a horrible format for use with LightWave, try PNG instead and have a look at this tutorial (http://www.lightwiki.com/Optimised_image_use) as well.

Infinimap uses enormous texture maps with very little ram usage inside LightWave itself.

B