Camera Animation stops

[bruce_hart]

I've got a 3DS Max scene with a camera moving down a road, with 4 keyfames along the path, 200 frames. I export the Vray scene to Vantage and the Scene Animation shows the full time range, but the camera movement stops after 2 seconds. What am I doing wrong?

[Alexander.Atanasov]

Hi bruce_hart,

Can you send us the max and vrscene file for us to investigate? You can use the Chaos Help form with a link to the forum thread: https://support.chaos.com/hc/en-us/requests/new and we will share our findings.

Best regards,
Alexander

[bruce_hart]

Hi Alexander. Thanks for your reply. I was in a bit of a rush when I encountered this problem. To output the animation I animated between camera positions in Vantage rather than use the keyframed animation from 3DS Max.

Now I've got time to look at it - the issue is at the vrscene export out of Max. I just noticed the "creating frames" process stops at around 70 frames, instead of doing the full 200. When I deleted all Forest Pack objects, proxy trees and cars - the entire 200 frames were output. Interestingly - I went back to the original scene with all the Forestpack and other items included and export the vrscene to my local SSD drive, and all 200 frames were exported. Tried the exact same scene again - exporting to a mapped network drive location - and the export stopped at 70 created frames. This was the original location I was saving to. So that seems to be the culprit. There's probably not much point providing a scene file?

[Alexander.Atanasov]

Hi bruce_hart,

Glad you found what was the issue. There is no need to send us the scene but maybe you should write in the V-Ray for 3ds Max forum section and let them know that such an issue is happening during vrscene export on a mapped drive. If it is a known issue or has a solution they will inform you.

Best regards,
Alexander

[bruce_hart]

OK - will do. Thanks Alexander