Weird black squares when rendering

[AcesHigh]

Anyone has any idea why this is happening?

Only thing I can tell is that Sketchup is consuming 1,475,088K of memory right now (at Windows Task Manager)

It only appears in the final pass...

unfortunately, I cant post a screenshot, because the Print Screen doesnt works while rendering, and after it finishes, it freezes and I get a bugsplat.

[AcesHigh]

Re: Weird black squares when rendering

maybe I should specify that it seems this problem only happens when I use Irradiance Map + DMC, in a few models.

thats too bad, because its my favorite rendering method (haha, not that Ive used other methods extensively to test them)

maybe you guys can suggest me some rendering method which produces similar results with the same speed?

[Jackson_cg]

Re: Weird black squares when rendering

I can suggest a rendering engine combination which will give you similar results in a quarter of the time: IM + LC.

I never use DMC, it's way too slow and the results aren't really any better than the above combo.

Sorry I can't help with the black buckets problem, no idea what's causing that. Are you using the DR Spawner?

[AcesHigh]

Re: Weird black squares when rendering

haha, whats the DR Spawner?

[Jackson_cg]

Re: Weird black squares when rendering

Distributed Rendering- for creating nodes in render farms.

[AcesHigh]

Re: Weird black squares when rendering

no no...


Anyway, now the render is crashing. Great. I wonder if the guilt is on Sketchup 7.1...

[AcesHigh]

Re: Weird black squares when rendering

bah, its a pain in the ass... I spent the entire afternoon trying to render the scene, but could not because there is always a crash or the black squares, then I have to open Sketchup again, re-open the scene, etc.

when the black squares start appearing (at the final pass of the DMC), the Render Progress Window displays dozens of these messages:

"Exception: Memory allocation failure; 1120000 bytes requested; 953138670 bytes already in heap; 4132160 bytes free heap space."