Light Cache Freeze

[glorybound]

Hi,

I have a scene that keeps freezing at the end of the light cache. I backed up and removed everything added to the scene since this started happening, but it still does not get past the light cache. I can't cancel it so i have to crash MAX, which corrupts the file. I am trying brute force for the second bounce now to see if at least I can get this render out.

Does anybody have any ideas?

[glorybound]

Brute Force

Brute force just rendered a black window. Why does this happen hours from a deadline? Is there some kind of law?

[glorybound]

Merge

OK. I merged the model into a new scene and the lightcache started, but was estimated to take 12 hrs with medium settings and medium DPI. When I ran
ibitmappager.enabled = false in the max lister everything is back to normal. How do I make sure that the MAX pager is turned off without manual doing it each time?

[jacksc02]

bobby you could set up a pre-render script to run before each render. Im not sure if its an efficient way of doing it though