last nightly I installed is crashing like a pig!

[gregvfx]

Hi,

I am catching up with PHX after a while...
Could there be a stable folder in the nightlies like VRay has?
I dunno which version I can use since the latest I downloaded is crashing like hell...
I am also using VRay Next so I need a PHX that can render...

BTW, is VRay Next GPU going to be able to render PHX particle shader ?

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Oh, please do send any scene that crashes. For all I know, today's nightly passes all our test scenes, so as far as we can tell, it's stable - if it still crashes on your scene, we definitely have to take a look and fix it.

Some important stuff that happened during the last few weeks was that we made a breaking change to the AUR format - a latest Phoenix should be able to read caches from an old one, but an old Phoenix won't be able to read new caches. There was about a week of stabilization though, so if you were using a nightly from the last two weeks, please try to simulate all your caches again just in case.

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Regarding GPU - we need to finish the fire/smoke rendering first and the we'll be on to the Particle Shader. It will be in Some future V-Ray, but definitely not the one coming up

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Btw, a very important question - are you using a Phoenix nightly for vray 3 or vray 4 and which version of V-Ray do you have installed?

Another very important note - make sure you don't use the "_install.zip" nightlies.

[gregvfx]

Using max 2018, VRay 4.01.03.28031, PHX 3.05.03.2018021128031
Crashing randomly after frame 30.

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Alright, got it! Thanks a ton - the fix will be in tomorrow's nightly.

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

You can rewind back to a nightly from 02 Feb or older - this is where the problem first occurred.

[gregvfx]

Thanks for fixing things that fast!

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

My pleasure, this one was especially important!