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I've been having trouble rendering Maya Fluids using V-Ray and would like share my workflow to see if anyone could shed some light on the problem (no pun intended).
We use Maya 2016 with V-Ray 3.4
I simulate my Fluid from frame 1 to 500, everything looks great, and I proceed with creating a fluid cache using the mcx format for each frame with default settings.
I keep my fluid cache in Maya's project scene folder, not in a network shared location.
The final fluid resolution is high (500) and each mcx file is about 600mb.
When I render a test frame anywhere between the 1 to 500 frame with distributed rendering using the V-Ray frame buffer everything looks good.
When I render any frame sequence, for example 100 to 200, using command line rendering I get the first frame and then blank frames for the rest of the sequence, occasionally a frame with a few rendered buckets in between.
my command line file reads...
render -r vray -s 100 -e 200 -cam camera1 -im smoke.cam1 smoke.ma
The way I fixed this issue is to command line render each frame individually...
render -r vray -s 100 -e 100 -cam camera1 -im smoke.cam1 smoke.ma
render -r vray -s 101 -e 101 -cam camera1 -im smoke.cam1 smoke.ma
render -r vray -s 102 -e 102 -cam camera1 -im smoke.cam1 smoke.ma
etc,
(lots of fun setting up a 500 frame sequence that way!)
I though of putting the cache in a network shared location, but I got the same issue when turning off distributed rendering so I realized that wouldn't solve it.
What am I missing?
Should I adopt a different workflow?
We use Maya 2016 with V-Ray 3.4
I simulate my Fluid from frame 1 to 500, everything looks great, and I proceed with creating a fluid cache using the mcx format for each frame with default settings.
I keep my fluid cache in Maya's project scene folder, not in a network shared location.
The final fluid resolution is high (500) and each mcx file is about 600mb.
When I render a test frame anywhere between the 1 to 500 frame with distributed rendering using the V-Ray frame buffer everything looks good.
When I render any frame sequence, for example 100 to 200, using command line rendering I get the first frame and then blank frames for the rest of the sequence, occasionally a frame with a few rendered buckets in between.
my command line file reads...
render -r vray -s 100 -e 200 -cam camera1 -im smoke.cam1 smoke.ma
The way I fixed this issue is to command line render each frame individually...
render -r vray -s 100 -e 100 -cam camera1 -im smoke.cam1 smoke.ma
render -r vray -s 101 -e 101 -cam camera1 -im smoke.cam1 smoke.ma
render -r vray -s 102 -e 102 -cam camera1 -im smoke.cam1 smoke.ma
etc,
(lots of fun setting up a 500 frame sequence that way!)
I though of putting the cache in a network shared location, but I got the same issue when turning off distributed rendering so I realized that wouldn't solve it.
What am I missing?
Should I adopt a different workflow?
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