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  • Particle Flow: Subframe Sampling causes hang/crash

    Hello!

    I have a Pflow setup that Vray ( 1.5 sp1, max x64 9 or 2008 ) does not seem to like:

    In the birth event, the "subframe sampling" is on, because the particles are supposed to bounce off a collider object that is very close to the emitter object. If it's off half of them just go through the collider.

    And the bad thing starts now: when the particle amount gets around 10000 (i'm not certain this is the reason though) Vray just hangs at "updating instances" for the Pflow object. Last lines in the vraylog are:


    Updating object PF Source 01->Event 04
    Number of particles for "PF Source 01->Event 04" is 91
    Updating object PF Source 01->Event 02
    Number of particles for "PF Source 01->Event 02" is 9503
    Updating object PF Source 01->Event 01
    Number of particles for "PF Source 01->Event 01" is 100

    Preparing instances
    Creating render mesh for "Plane01PF": fixed mesh
    Creating render mesh for "PF Source 01->Event 04": moving mesh
    Creating render mesh for "PF Source 01->Event 04": moving mesh
    (END OF FILE)


    3ds Max is "not responding" in task manager, and shows 25% cpu usage (a single cpu core is occupied I guess).

    The funny thing is that SOMETIMES is does render. Like 1 out of 10 tries it does go past that stage.

    I tried many things, but only when I turn off "subframe sampling" in the birth event the problem is gone.

    I'll probably have to re-render the whole sequence with new settings and tweak the collisions again. Luckily I'm not facing a deadline this time .

  • #2
    This should be corrected for SP2. Apparently PFlow did not like the method V-Ray was using to update the particle system and fell into an infinite loop.

    Best regards,
    Vlado
    I only act like I know everything, Rogers.

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    • #3
      Any ETA on when that will be ready vlado? Theres a good chance I might hit this bug in 3/4 weeks...

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      • #4
        according to the frontpage 4 days :P

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        • #5
          CONFIRMED! it no longer breaks down with the 1.5 sp2 update. Great!

          Thank you Vlado and Chaosgroup!

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