This is a quick note to those whom have flickering animations.
If you find your animation frame’s change Grey scale levels and result in a flickering animation this is due to an Authorisation problem.
If you have purchased vray and you have this problem, contact Choas to re-authorise your copy of vray.
If you havent purchased vray and you have this problem this is due to illegal Warez cracked software.
Hi Natty !
Thank you for the tip !
It is on time.But it is quite strange.
Gaël
edited:
qmc settings, interpolation settings, antialiasing settings and I believe more can affect this as well. Some of them the edge, some of the in the “grey leveles” and so. You cant simply render animation with low settings. It will flicker anyway…
So anyone before pointing on others that using illegal stuff, think a bit first please. It has happend many many times in this forum, and somehow I never seen anyone after that saying at least sorry to those who pointed as a pirate user and cleared up that he isnt … And this was the case most of the time.
i am not blaming anyone losbellos.
im just pionting out to warez user’s not to come into the forum and complain that there dodgy copy of vray doesnt work in animation’s.
i get 10 - 50 personal messages a week and emails asking me why this is happening. and most are using warez.
i am very aware there could be other reason for animations flickering But when the whole image phisically change’s RGB levels when there is or is not any gi, normally there is only one reason for this.
If you are very aware of the other issues than I would suggest you enumerate those in a new sticky, as it is this post looks very unprofessional and at conflict with the style of this board.
Ok, here we go with a confession
My name is Fermí, I am 43 and my VRay animations DO FLICKER
So I’d really apreciate a sticky thread on the subject, such as the one Metino started about splotches and everybody posted their apporach… (that was a great thread) I know those subjects have been treated in the forum over time, but having them concentrated in one sticky thread is great.
I don’t think the flickering I get is because of bad authorization, nor because of low imap settings, but they could be because of poor antialiasing… compromise is rendering times/acceptable flickering. sometimes the flickering is even welcome, since for instance in displaced grass ( a la Gonçalo Prospero) it looks like a gentle breeze, but it’s still a flicker nonetheless!
My luck is my work is not animations but high ress stills of megamillion polygon scenes, so the interest is (for now) academic, but who knows.
Cheers
Fermí
ok i here you … perhaps the title was a little misleading.
Regards
>>> perhaps the title was a little misleading.<<<
No, the title was great, a sticky flickering animation thread!
the content was the problem:
“You sinners, apologize while you can!”
:?
Fermí
Opps!
It’s not a flickering sticky animation thread anymore,
this should be forbiden,: to change thread Subject after people has answered to the original post!
Fermí
well im talking about the different rgb levels, and it has been taken out of context due to a misleading title.
Re: Different RGB Levels from frame to frame
..to add, an active Exposure Control can cause flickering animations too
Also here is another cause http://www.chaoticdimension.com/forums/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6005
I know Natty was just trying to sort out the usual Warez from authorized users asking about flickering.
Maybe what could do is say :
1.)For those that have illegally downloaded Vray and are having flickering problems that is because it is an illegal copy (warez)
2.)For those with a legal copy of Vray and are experiencing problems with flickering please follow the links below. (This would require research but maybe compile a list of links with common legal flickering problems like qmc, AA, and so forth that people can read info on.)
-Andrew
If you have flickering on the whole image, this is always due to authorization problems.
All other flickering you are describing is much more local and is due to some settings (bad AA gives you flickering edges for example, or flickering grass, but your BG sky will not flicker!)
So natty’s statement is very correct imo, you will never get changing rgb levels from frame to frame because of low AA, low GI or whatever.
If you have flickering on the whole image, this is always due to authorization problems.
All other flickering you are describing is much more local and is due to some settings (bad AA gives you flickering edges for example, or flickering grass, but your BG sky will not flicker!)
So natty’s statement is very correct imo, you will never get changing rgb levels from frame to frame because of low AA, low GI or whatever.
The issue in this post will cause “whole frame” flickering http://www.chaoticdimension.com/forums/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6005 …
If you have flickering on the whole image, this is always due to authorization problems.
if you have a scene with a very small amount of gi and you render it on a farm with a lot of traffic some builds of vray will not be able to open the precalculated irradience map on every machine.
This can be misinterpreted as a flickering of the entire frame but is actually the lack of gi on a per frame basis.
(the vray log on those machines will indicate the irradience map coudn’t be loaded)
Hey Fermi,
Can you point me to the thread which talks about the splotches problem.
I missed that thread. The splotches are driving me insane.
Thanks.
SunnyC
Hi Sunny,
This was the post:
http://www.chaoticdimension.com/forums/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3851
Metin Updated his first post with all the info gathered from all users, so thah first post is now a great article about splothces.
thanks Metin
Fermí
Thanks for the link Fermi. Thanks for the thread Metin.
SunnyC
really?
i found some vray advance in some sites (for FREE!!, can’t belive it)
and tried it, there was no color changing in every frame in animation. Seems the authorization don’t worked well enough.
I’m not warez user only tried it on single system, don’t know if the dr worked too.