Testcredits

[JonasNöll]

Hi,

so when trying out the Chaos Cloud I submit a scene and since it starts rendering all frames at ones I immediately run out of Test Credits and everything is paused and impossible to evaluate the result without buying an unknown number of credits. Is that how it is supposed to be?

[vladie]

Hi JonasNöll ,

You are right that it's difficult to test and render a whole animation with Chaos Cloud with just 20 credits. Of course it depends on the animation but it's better to use the Frame Step option. Using it you will render every n-th frame of your animation where n is the Frame Step value (e.g. 50 if you have 1000 frames). This way you will have a frame from different parts of the animation showing whether everything renders as expected. You will be also able to calculate the average cost per frame (if you have rendered the animation with production quality). Then if you are fine with the results, you can just clone the animation and render the missing frames using the designated filters. Did you try the Frame Step option?

As you didn't manage to test Chaos Cloud fully, we'll be happy to refund you the trial credits so you can try again. Just please let me know what email you use to render with Chaos Cloud.

Thanks,
Vladie