export to .vrscene file -> tiny step size

[ricorio]

Hi,

I'm exporting a scene to a .vrscene file in animation mode.
Now suddenly the step size while exporting went from the common 1 step by frame to something like 229.70 229.77 229.88 229.93 in frame step size.
This is horrible to me because this shot is about 400 frames long.

Please anybody help.

cheers

rico


output window example:

[2011/Dec/16|22:33:54] V-Ray: Total frame time 0h 0m 9.3s (9.3 s)
[2011/Dec/16|22:33:54] V-Ray: Updating frame at time 266.00
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:13] V-Ray: Total time updating frame 0h 0m 18.7s (18.7 s)
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:13] V-Ray: Updating frame at time 266.06
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:14] V-Ray: Total time updating frame 0h 0m 0.7s (0.7 s)
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:14] V-Ray: Updating frame at time 266.12
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:14] V-Ray: Total time updating frame 0h 0m 0.5s (0.5 s)
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:14] V-Ray: Updating frame at time 266.18
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:15] V-Ray: Total time updating frame 0h 0m 0.8s (0.8 s)
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:15] V-Ray: Updating frame at time 266.24
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:15] V-Ray: Total time updating frame 0h 0m 0.5s (0.5 s)
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:15] V-Ray: Updating frame at time 266.29
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:16] V-Ray: Total time updating frame 0h 0m 0.5s (0.5 s)
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:16] V-Ray: Updating frame at time 266.35
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:16] V-Ray: Total time updating frame 0h 0m 0.5s (0.5 s)
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:16] V-Ray: Updating frame at time 266.41
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:17] V-Ray: Total time updating frame 0h 0m 0.6s (0.6 s)
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:17] V-Ray: Updating frame at time 266.47
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:17] V-Ray: Total time updating frame 0h 0m 0.5s (0.5 s)
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:17] V-Ray: Updating frame at time 266.53
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:18] V-Ray: Total time updating frame 0h 0m 0.7s (0.7 s)
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:18] V-Ray: Updating frame at time 266.59
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:19] V-Ray: Total time updating frame 0h 0m 0.5s (0.5 s)
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:19] V-Ray: Updating frame at time 266.65
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:19] V-Ray: Total time updating frame 0h 0m 0.5s (0.5 s)
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:19] V-Ray: Updating frame at time 266.71
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:20] V-Ray: Total time updating frame 0h 0m 1.0s (1.0 s)
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:20] V-Ray: Updating frame at time 266.76
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:20] V-Ray: Total time updating frame 0h 0m 0.0s (0.0 s)
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:20] V-Ray: Updating frame at time 266.82
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:21] V-Ray: Total time updating frame 0h 0m 0.5s (0.5 s)
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:21] V-Ray: Updating frame at time 266.88
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:21] V-Ray: Total time updating frame 0h 0m 0.5s (0.5 s)
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:21] V-Ray: Updating frame at time 266.94
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:22] V-Ray: Total time updating frame 0h 0m 0.5s (0.5 s)
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:22] V-Ray: Updating frame at time 267.00
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:22] V-Ray: Total time updating frame 0h 0m 0.5s (0.5 s)
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:22] V-Ray: Appending to V-Ray scene file.
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:22] V-Ray: Total frame time 0h 0m 28.0s (28.0 s)
[2011/Dec/16|22:34:22] V-Ray: Updating frame at time 267.00

[ultrasonic]

seems you have turned on motion blur or the velocity renderelement...or both...and since it takes a long time to update i suppose u are using shapeDeformation...
If your animation is final i encourage you to export all shapes to an animated proxy...if thats not possible you are screwed

cheers
Oli

[ricorio]

I got a active velocity render element ... but all animations are just simple transforms ... no deformations ... motion blur is off.
When I turn the render element off it works the way I'm used to it ... 1 frame step by step.

Thanks for pointing me into the right direction ... but what else to deformations could this be ?

cheers

rico

[vlado]

Hm, the velocity should not require that many steps... if you like, you can send us the scene (or just some small part to it that reproduces the problem) to vraymaya@chaosgroup.com and our support guys will take a look at it.

Best regards,
Vlado

[ricorio]

While reducing the scene in deleting models I found that the evildoer was a model which came via .fbx from 3dsmax ...

I couldn't find any strange nodes in the hypergraph ... also deleting history and freeze transforms didn't help.

Exporting it in .obj and importing it back into the scene the step size went back to 1 step per frame.

Problem solved.

Thank you guys !

[vlado]

Glad that it's solved, but I would still like to take a look at the problematic scene if possible - it would allow us to perhaps fix the issue so you don't have to reimport the geometry.

Best regards,
Vlado