I'm trying to render an interior I've built. It is a church, so there are very richly moulded surfaces. Practically every surface, in fact, has some moulded ornament.
The file is about 90MB and all of the objects I'd like to render are either NURBS surfaces, solid subtractions, solid additions, or plain extrudes. There are no textures and I have the VW and the doc. prefs set to maximize rendering speed (so, lowest level of detail, light sources not visible, etc.). All objects are solid and are plain white. The interior is built up mostly of symbols - each of which I have seen render just fine in Open GL separately. However, when the whole lot is together, it chugs away at rendering and then, after about half an hour, the application 'unexpectedly' quits.
What's going on here?