crash on particle rendering

V-Ray V-Ray for 3ds Max Issues
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I’ve got a pflow disk cache with 800,000 particles and I’m using the Shape Instance modifier as a post-cache operator. It works great in the viewport but vray can’t seem to render it. I get this error:


[2015/Sep/4|13:34:04]       Extracting frame data from FrameParams.
[2015/Sep/4|13:34:04]       Extracting frame data from VRender Environment params.
[2015/Sep/4|13:34:04]       Extracting frame data for fields.
[2015/Sep/4|13:34:04]       Extracting frame data from node (PhysCamera001).
[2015/Sep/4|13:34:04]       Rendering from camera PhysCamera001
[2015/Sep/4|13:34:04]       Setting up frame region.
[2015/Sep/4|13:34:04]     Clearing previous contents of frame buffer.
[2015/Sep/4|13:34:04]     Calling beginFrame().
[2015/Sep/4|13:34:04]       Entering beginFrame().
[2015/Sep/4|13:34:04]         Setting RenderGlobalContext.
[2015/Sep/4|13:34:04]         Broadcasting NOTIFY_RENDER_PREEVAL.
[2015/Sep/4|13:34:04]         Updating the tone operator.
[2015/Sep/4|13:34:04]         Preparing camera sampler.
[2015/Sep/4|13:34:04]         Calling update().
[2015/Sep/4|13:34:04]           warning: Bitmap pager is enabled; rendering might be slower
[2015/Sep/4|13:34:04]           Updating scene materials for time=0
[2015/Sep/4|13:34:04]             Loading bitmaps for ""
[2015/Sep/4|13:34:04]             Updating ""
[2015/Sep/4|13:34:04]             Loading bitmaps for "Snow2"
[2015/Sep/4|13:34:04]             Updating "Snow2"
[2015/Sep/4|13:34:04]             Loading bitmaps for "Map #109"
[2015/Sep/4|13:34:04]             Updating "Map #109"
[2015/Sep/4|13:34:04]             Loading bitmaps for "Map #121"
[2015/Sep/4|13:34:04]             Updating "Map #121"
[2015/Sep/4|13:34:04]             Loading bitmaps for "Map #121"
[2015/Sep/4|13:34:04]             Updating "Map #121"
[2015/Sep/4|13:34:04]             Loading bitmaps for "Matte"
[2015/Sep/4|13:34:04]             Updating "Matte"
[2015/Sep/4|13:34:04]             Loading bitmaps for ""
[2015/Sep/4|13:34:04]             Updating ""
[2015/Sep/4|13:34:04]           Preparing objects
[2015/Sep/4|13:34:04]           Updating object PFS_FineSnow001->PFS_FineSnow001
[2015/Sep/4|13:34:04]           Number of particles for "PFS_FineSnow001->PFS_FineSnow001" is 0
[2015/Sep/4|13:34:04]           Updating object PFS_FineSnow001->Event 005
[2015/Sep/4|13:34:04]           Number of particles for "PFS_FineSnow001->Event 005" is 800000
[2015/Sep/4|13:34:16]           error: UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: Preparing objects
Last marker is at ./src/vrayrenderer.cpp, line 3259: Preparing camera sampler

Seems to happen regardless of what “Geometry” render typ I use (Single mesh, Multiple meshes, mesh per particle).

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Hello,

Can you send us the scene for further investigation?