My Forest Pack Pro isn’t rendering in my Vantage scene. It was working just fine, but it stopped working - same scene. Where should I start troubleshooting?
I submitted a trouble ticket. Itoo said Chaos handles the implementation into Vantage, so there is nothing that they can do.
It seems that every time I jump back into Vantage, I can’t use it. I was working fine on some interiors, then noticed the Forest Pack trees weren’t rendering outside the windows, so I shut everything down and tried again. All was good, but then it happened again, and now it is totally broken. I reinstalled V-Ray, Vantage, and Forest Pack Pro, but it is still broken. This is so frustrating. I need a solution, please.
Hi Bobby,
Do you get the forest pack elements rendered if you are on V-Ray GPU engine and run a Standalone export and render from the V-Ray Menu > .vrscene exporter > export and render.
I believe that this issue is with a specific project file only? Or not ? Maybe we can try to find the culprit if you can send us the scene file ?
What is the ForestPack version installed ?
In a quick test with 3dsMax 2027 / Vanatge 3.3.1 / V-Ray 7.40.04 / Forestpack 9.4.3
Forest instances are rendered fine.
Have you tried itoo forum? There was the same issue like a month ago. We had to revert to the old one. I now have a scene where GPU/RTX simply won’t start rendering. In MAX. But I just can’t be bothered anymore. Switched to CPU.
As a minimum give us the versions of all the software involved (like Tashko did above), plus hardware specs. Error logs can help too. And ideally, a scene.
MAX 2026, vray 7.40.04, FP 9.4.3., RC 7.3.5.
Graphic is 4090 with the aproprirate driver for the vray version.
Edit: welp…it’s working now. Just tested it. Btw, I restarted my PC when it didn’t render, and it didn’t again after the restart. No idea what changed. You can test it if you want anyway.
Can you save the MAX to 2024? That would be much appreciated.
Okay, I created proxies and all is good. This has never been an issue before, and I used all my usual assets. I do know that I am running out of disk space, so could that be it? I have like a dozen user profiles on the PC, and IT doesn’t want to remove them. I can only image the data on each profile.
Nope, failed again! So, the proxies just made FPP to create things over, but it doesn’t stick.
Everything is current, so the latest, except I am using MAX 2024. My specs should be in my signature.
Can you save it to MAX 2024?
Hey Bobby. I sent it for the Chaos guys in case they want to investigate.
Hi Crayox13,
Just tried the uploaded scene here on a RTX 5090 machine and seems to works without any issues using all the same plugin versions except 3dsmax > 2027. Rendering with VGPU and Vantage. The memory of the GPU is around 22GB (~17 for rendering- other is the system load). On the lower spects machine here RTX 4080 (16GB) can’t render it due to the insufficient memory.
To clarify, you are having the same issue as I discribe?
I believe we are mixing between two separate problems here.
@bobby_parker according to the description, the Forest issue is with specific project. Can you confirm that you can see FP nodes in a new 3dsMax scene in Vantage?
WHat about if you merge this project into a new scene ?
Right now, I am tapped out. I have spent all week trying to get this working. Right now, when I open the scene in Vantage, my PC locks up, and I have to force a reboot. I exported it as a VRSCENE, and the same thing happens. I am at a loss. I have an interior I worked on last week, which is when it started happening, and it had one FPP element. Everything rendered in Vantage, except for the FPP.
Can you send us the Vrscene file along with all assets ? So we can try it here.
You can start a ticket and upload there..
Large file, but I will try