DR and Dark Buckets - Anyone solve it yet?

[3ddesign]

I've read several posts about DR and random dark buckets but haven't been able to find a post giving a fix. Anyone have one?

Everything was rendering fine at 1800 pixels then when I rendered the final at 4800 I got the dark buckets. My network is solid, maps all accessable, latest build on all machines, etc. Any clue?

[Morbid Angel]

did you read this?
http://www.chaosgroup.com/forum/phpB...highlight=tips

dark buckets can actually be a test scene you rendered prior to the render.

[jujubee]

I was getting that on a large render as well and didn't quite figure it out.
Also, make sure during your renders that the network drives doesn't become disconnected as well. If it does, try implementing the code from 'disconnected network drive' thread on this forum.

[3ddesign]

Morbid:

Yes, I've read the thread. I've done a few tests since I first posted. Seems I can render up to 4000 pixels afterwhich I get the dark buckets. 3800 pixels rendered fine. Go figure.

Jujubee:

My network is rock solid, don't have any problems except for the large pixel renders.

Thanks to both of you for responding. I'll have to assume that our sultan of script, the king of code, even the venerable vlado himself will fix it in an upcoming release.

[Da_elf]

did you try turning off vfb and using vrays beffer to save directly to a vrimage file?

[Morbid Angel]

ahh....I see now, yes I get black buckets when rendering over 2k size aswell. I think its a bug.