can't render isosurface

[jstrob]

I have now rev 24819 and it seems like I can't render implicit surface anymore. Mesh renders fine with a scene I am working on but when I render with iimplicit there is absolutely nothing.

Is this a bug that could have been corrected in later nightlies?

edit: well finally it seems to be only in a specific scene. I just did a test with a simple scene and it worked. I will investigate a bit more.

[Ivaylo Katev]

check the isosurface settings, tell us if you find something bug-like.

[jstrob]

I tried with many different isosurface level and meshsmooth and I can't render the implicit surface...

[jstrob]

The scene cam originally from Tommi (TSR) cause we a re working on a production together. So I tried to recreate the simulator, load the same settings and resimulate and now eveytime I choose implicit surface, max crashes.

I also have another problem I can't render the mesh on the network. Locally I can render the mesh, but On the network, I put the network path in output and input and nothing render...

I will try the latest nightly... Or should I try the latest stable or latest released?

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

In the latest nightly you will find a change regarding the input and output paths - we added the frame number and extension to the path, so if you had a path like:

\\server\folder\ND2_PhoenixFD01

now it must become

\\server\folder\ND2_PhoenixFD01_####.aur

The latest nightly should automatically detect and convert the old paths to the new kind, but if it doesn't, please give us a shout.

[jstrob]

ok thanks I will try that

[jstrob]

With latest nightly I get a error code 127 phoenix2.dlr failed to initialized, the specified procedure cannot be found..

[vlado]

Which V-Ray version do you have? Unfortunately I had to break the V-Ray SDK to implement a specific V-Ray 3 feature.

Best regards,
Vlado

[jstrob]

3.00.07 rev 24800

ok so that mean I should install latest nightly for vray 3 too?

[jstrob]

I installed vray 3.00.08 rev 24969 and I get the same error with latest nightly of phoenixfd (24967)

I aslo tried with phoenixfd 24965 and still same error.

phoenix 24953 same error...

Can you tell me if you know of 2 matching versions?

[jstrob]

Ok the vray 3.00.08 24969 was latest stable and not latest nightly. Now with both latst nightly I don't get the error about bad dlr.

But I open the same scene adn try to render implicit and still nothing...

[jstrob]

Svetlin,

About the update for the path it's working. Now I see the extension and padding ####. But when I submit for rendering on my render farm via deadline, the fluid in mesh mode does not render...

So I still have both problems: can't render isosurface in a specific scene. And can't render mesh nor implicit on the farm.

[jstrob]

I was able to go around the bug by recreating my scene almost from scratch and merging element of it in a new scene. I use RPMnager and when I loaded my default pass, it was causing the bug. So I recreated the pass too. And now it works. Very strange...

[Ivaylo Katev]

can you attach the scene that produces the isosurface issue? you can remove any complex geometry in order to make it smaller and just put one cache file to skip the simulation

[jstrob]

I already sent the lowrez scene to phoenixfd support. But I think the bug was maybe due to the fact that TSR uses phoenixFD for vray 2.4 while I uise the vray 3 version. And he created the phoenix simulator and simulated it before sending it to me. Is that possible?