Vray / BerconMetaball semi crash on render

[HenrikBC]

I have a scene set up with Pflow -> Mesher -> BerconMetaball.

It has starting behaving oddly when I hit render I get this message:

error: UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: Preparing instances
Last marker is at ./src/vrayrenderer.cpp, line 2251: Preparing camera sampler"

Perhaps a case of "send the scene file to vlado@chaosgroup.com ?

[HenrikBC]

Just made a test with just hundreds of thousands of particles and BerbonMetaball which renders fine - so amount doesn't seem to be the problem.

I've sent the scene file to vray@chaosgroup.com.

[HenrikBC]

Anyone in Sofia had a chance to take a look at my bercon-balls?

[etown]

I'm experiencing a similar problem and can't seem to find any solution

[2011/Mar/22|16:57:45] Creating render mesh for "Object": moving mesh
[2011/Mar/22|16:57:45] Creating render mesh for "Object": moving mesh
[2011/Mar/22|16:57:45] Creating render mesh for "Object026": moving mesh
[2011/Mar/22|16:57:45] Creating render mesh for "Object026": moving mesh
[2011/Mar/22|16:57:45] Creating render mesh for "OusideRing": moving mesh
[2011/Mar/22|16:57:45] Creating render mesh for "OusideRing": moving mesh
[2011/Mar/22|16:57:45] Creating render mesh for "washer": moving mesh
[2011/Mar/22|16:57:45] Creating render mesh for "washer": moving mesh
[2011/Mar/22|16:57:45] Creating render mesh for "SinkPlugRight": moving mesh
[2011/Mar/22|16:57:45] Creating render mesh for "SinkPlugRight": moving mesh
[2011/Mar/22|16:57:45] Creating render mesh for "Middlering": moving mesh
[2011/Mar/22|16:57:45] Creating render mesh for "Middlering": moving mesh
[2011/Mar/22|16:57:45] error: UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: Preparing instances
Last marker is at .\src\vrayrenderer.cpp, line 2287: Preparing camera sampler

The mesh that triggers the error keeps changing, so that throws me off too. It's a large scene (700mb), but I have 16 gigs of RAM, so there's plenty of memory to go around.

Any ideas?

[etown]

FYI...I was able to fix this by replacing the camera. Seems the camera corrupted