what did you wrong ?

[QuakeMarine1]

hiho
I am curriouse to hear the reason why your render over night was not useable the day after
what did you wrong in the vray render settings or in the scene ?

the dont render final image button is a good one
or you missed to activate one element
or wrong resolution
or no aplha in the tif output
or ..
or ..

what wents wrong in your uber importeted super project causing deadline trouble ?

A.

[suurland]

600 minute timeout.

[jonnybefree]

skip existing images...

[Codi]

Overwrite a huge EXR because I forgot to change/disable the output for a test render, or launched two renders with the same path.
Same for IR/LC maps.
Forgot to activate displacement.
Launched animations from perspective view/wrong camera.
Left an environment background image/Sky, we always add a bg in post.

[Morbid Angel]

well I cant remember details about such things.
Once I had to do a car render which was 8000x4000 (approximatly) pixels for print. Everything took too much time and we desided to render it in strips. I sent 11 strips to the 11 machines we had. And went home. When I came the next day, it was all rendered and merged and it looked perfect. That same morning we had to deliver and we did and it was a success. I cant stress how much everything was hanging by the thread. And how much strip rendering has issues on all fronts. Or used to have.


But on the side note. I had few instances where I have rendered a shot, and moved on to the next one reusing the scene from pervious one. Upon completion of a shot setup I sent it to the farm, forgetting to change the path to the new directory of output images, and overwriting previously rendered shot with different shot frames.

[thablanch]

2 different teams with different software, rendering equipment shared. (can lead to inter-personal problems as well!!) Just shut my stuff down to get their stuff going on.
Missing the Alpha
User not allowed to save to path.. ( we had a few server hardware/software changes in the last couple months, some permissions got lost in the process..)

[Pixelab]

600 minute timeout +1