xref scene and DR problems

[gregvfx]

Hi,

I am trying to automate the process of producing turnarounds for characters.
Here is the setup,

one scene for the Set including background, lights and camera liked to an animated Point Helper
another scene with the character
a third scene with the first two merged as xref scenes.
I also have a function embedded in a custom attributes in the scene root node to give thickness to non-closed objects flagged with the proper userproperty that is executed by a pre/post render callback...

1. with xrefScene camera, all the DR render black, the host seems fine.
2. if I merge the camera and the lights some render nodes are still seeing something different from each other, the stack must output different geometry.
3. all that s not a real concern since I am writing a script to build a scene with no xrefs to send for render (as usual with Max).

I was thinking to blame Max (as usual) and tried with MR and its satellites and it works fine (with a material override)...

What can possibly be different? Too complex for me...

[Oleg_Budeanu]

Hi,

I am trying to automate the process of producing turnarounds for characters.
Here is the setup,

one scene for the Set including background, lights and camera liked to an animated Point Helper
another scene with the character
a third scene with the first two merged as xref scenes.
I also have a function embedded in a custom attributes in the scene root node to give thickness to non-closed objects flagged with the proper userproperty that is executed by a pre/post render callback...

1. with xrefScene camera, all the DR render black, the host seems fine.
2. if I merge the camera and the lights some render nodes are still seeing something different from each other, the stack must output different geometry.
3. all that s not a real concern since I am writing a script to build a scene with no xrefs to send for render (as usual with Max).

I was thinking to blame Max (as usual) and tried with MR and its satellites and it works fine (with a material override)...

What can possibly be different? Too complex for me...
[ATTACH=CONFIG]28780[/ATTACH]

Have you tried to tick on "transfer missing assets" ?

[Margarita.Stoeva]

Hello!

Thank you for reporting this. I was able to reproduce the black buckets output when rendering from camera that is loaded from an xRef-ed scene.
The issue is logged in our bug tracking system.

2. if I merge the camera and the lights some render nodes are still seeing something different from each other, the stack must output different geometry.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]28780[/ATTACH]

I think this is something that needs to be seen with your particular setup. It will be best if you could send a simplified version of it to support@chaosgroup.com and paste a link to this thread in your message.

Best regards,
Margarita

[gregvfx]

Have you tried to tick on "transfer missing assets" ?

No I haven't, but I checked the check for missing assets for DR and it is still rendering on them...
I can give it a try later next week.

[gregvfx]

Hello!

Thank you for reporting this. I was able to reproduce the black buckets output when rendering from camera that is loaded from an xRef-ed scene.
The issue is logged in our bug tracking system.


I think this is something that needs to be seen with your particular setup. It will be best if you could send a simplified version of it to support@chaosgroup.com and paste a link to this thread in your message.

Best regards,
Margarita

I will try and send something later next week.

[Alex_M]

I think I'm having exactly the same problem with 3.5 Beta 1. I get black buckets from all DR nodes if I render through a camera contained in an Xref'ed scene. Happens with every scene I test.

[Margarita.Stoeva]

Hello, Alex_M

I confirm this issue is still unresolved. As a workaround, you need to merge the camera in the current scene if you want to render from it using DR.

Best regards,
Margarita

[Alex_M]

Thanks, I'll be using this workaround in the meantime. Suits me perfectly fine.