URGENT!!!!! Rendering Black Buckets

[aclark]

I am having issues rendering at a resolution of 1600x800. I am using IR+LC and I am very confused why the test renders worked fine, but now on the final pass for the final render, all of my buckets turn black. And then my frame buffer seems to just crap out. I am certain the rendering is still running but I am not seeing anything in the frame buffer anymore. This is critical as I have a rendering due to a client tomorrow morning. Has anyone experienced this? Is this simply the frame buffer turning off?

[dkendig]

Re: URGENT!!!!! Rendering Black Buckets

are you using DR?

[aclark]

Re: URGENT!!!!! Rendering Black Buckets

No I am not using DR, which is why I am kinda freaked out about it.

[aclark]

Re: URGENT!!!!! Rendering Black Buckets

My scene is located here. I am not sure what is wrong.

https://www.yousendit.com/download/W...ckk4NVUwTVE9PQ

[frip51]

Re: URGENT!!!!! Rendering Black Buckets

Hey there,
without having seen your file, this sounds like a VFB channel thing to me. Are you using more than "Color" and maybe "Alpha"?


Cheers,
Matt

[aclark]

Re: URGENT!!!!! Rendering Black Buckets

No those are the only 2 I am using (Color and Alpha). I forgot to mention I am using a quad core hp envy running windows 7 with sketchup 7.1 and VFSU 1.48.94.

[dkendig]

Re: URGENT!!!!! Rendering Black Buckets

oh, a beta version, well that complicates things. How's your RAM usage while rendering?

[aclark]

Re: URGENT!!!!! Rendering Black Buckets

I am sitting at about 2.6 gig's of use.

[aclark]

Re: URGENT!!!!! Rendering Black Buckets

I just realized my dynamic memory was set to 400 instead of 4000....if the rendering has already started, can I dynamically change this? Or does it have to be set before sending to render?

[aclark]

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Also, does anyone happen to know of any third party render farms for VFSU that I can send these to crank them out in time? Not sure if anyone supports this for VFSU yet....

[dkendig]

Re: URGENT!!!!! Rendering Black Buckets

dynamic memory isn't used to determine how much ram you're using, here's the spot3d documentation for it...

http://www.spot3d.com/vray/help/150S...ams_system.htm

changing that value won't help.

I'm downloading the scene now, you probably just have some incorrect settings somewhere.

[dkendig]

Re: URGENT!!!!! Rendering Black Buckets

Fernando's saying there's some values that are set entirely too high. He's going to respond in a minute with some tips.

[aclark]

Re: URGENT!!!!! Rendering Black Buckets

Very Much appreciated!

[dkendig]

Re: URGENT!!!!! Rendering Black Buckets

it's taking him a while, he's trying to reproduce your issue using the values you already had set, just to verify that the issue is resolved by fixing some of the settings.

[aclark]

Re: URGENT!!!!! Rendering Black Buckets

Any luck guys?