Vray Error Reporting (or not)

[nvanherpt]

after talking to they guys at Respower i hope i have just escaped a potentially costly problem. i sent a path off to the render farm and due to certain circumstances the irradience maps failed to load. vray carried on rendering anyway, as it does, and i chalked up a $US400 bill before i found something wrong.

i don't know if there already is a way to halt vray when encountering this sort of problem but if there isn't could chaos implement one?

[Tom B]

Phew that sounds nasty. I was thinking of using Respower myself, good that they are reasonable. Is there no way to check frames as they output and cancel/pause a job before too many frames are done?

[natty]

With respower cant you view the frames pretty quick ? .... so you can avoid this?

[nvanherpt]

because they have so many blades/nodes they practically all get done at once. so when the first couple are done the remainder are only minutes away (which, when it's working is fantastic!).

i had tested a frame before sending all 700 off which was successful; after my experience i will now test say 50 frames instead of just one.