I’m playing around with doing a vray animation but I keep getting flickering. I render the irr map every 10 frames (I’m just moving a camera around a teapot - nice and simple!). then I render the animation out as sequential tga files and they come out as one light and one slightly darker, then back to light, etc so when move it to the RAM player the animation flickers. Is there anyway of stopping this?
(BTW Randomise samples in the advanced irr map section is deselected)
Merch
Is it the most recent version of VRay? Try the flicker editor 
--Jon
This is the never ending story of the Vray auth manifestation (caught with the smoking gun or not, anyways…).
Please contact vray@chaosgroup.com for further info.
Well, I’ll help you night and day Merch, if you’re a registered user and my words suggested you were not. 
We’ll get rid of this flickering.
Couldn’t help myself :lol:
In every single case I’ve read about. The authorization problem is completely different than the this problem. Every time someone mentions this flickering and gets a response they disappear from the forum. I’m sure Vlado doesn’t say anything about it for a good reason so I don’t see any problem in helping him with his defense efforts.
--Jon
Ah, figured out what I was doing wrong.
Thanks for all the votes of confidence. 
Merch
Glad to here you solved it … what was it ?
We really need the “official user” images back even if it was just text. These sort of threads are always painful for me to read 
Id have to agree with you on that one RErender.
-dave
Well, when there’s a unrecognized and needfull user to help…
We’re not the V-Ray police neither some licensed cops.
Just a helpfull community which helps for free.
(I still can remember the time I’ve been caught with the smoking gun on this forum. Cough cough 
)
lol also a good point Biohazard 8)
-dave
I would be happy if we just agreed not to post anything if we are unsure of a users legitamacy… There are too many causes and definitions for “flickering”, many of which happen in a properly purchased/licensed copy.
i think we all know the difference between flickering elements in an animation and frame to frame greyscale level change, which is an autho problem.
we are here to help, but ive paid for my copy of vray and it annoys me when these people come here ask WHY … then claim they are legit and then disapear never to return? Odd dont you think.
I don’t think this is how “the V-Ray police” would act. The “Razz” communicated that.
You guys are acting like the Vray police POLICE. What a vicious cycle though. Many of use have used and are still illegally, or more importantly IMORALLY, using software and breaking the standards of intellectual property. This could be justified by certain ideologies but, IMHO, for our current level of society it should just be common sense that it’s wrong. I also think that we can look at it in a different way for a small yet so important company like Chaos. These guys are affected DIRECTLY by ANY illegal copies of their software and I think it’s more important to defend them in any way. It’s different, still not justified, if a company like discreet looses a couple sales.
we have not seen the animation so we don’t know what tpe of flickering it was…
It has only been one day, how can you say “disapear never to return”?
In this post he mentions clients http://www.chaoticdimension.com/forums/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6653 not the profile of some warez kiddie…
Here in America it is “inocent until proven guilty” , It just really sucks if only one legit user is treated the way you guys have treated this one.
RErender
this is a quote from his post :: > I render the animation out as sequential tga files and they come out as one light and one slightly darker, then back to light, etc
from this you can surmise that each and every tga frame completey changes which as you know is a bug writen in to cause this.
and im not saying he has disapeared from the forum i am only saying that as a generalization of what does happen and if he is a genuine vray user then he will prove him self so by telling us what the problem was and how he sovled it.
“Here in America it is “inocent until proven guilty” , It just really sucks if only one legit user is treated the way you guys have treated this one.”
Very well said, RErender!
Hell man , even here in Texas we don’t hang em till after the trial!
Perhaps he and others don’t come back because of the way they are being treated for asking a question in this forum. They don’t understand that normally this is the best forum on the web, provided your aninations don’t flicker.
Granted some are illegal users, but, some are not. Who are we to judge and label a thief.
The chances are that if they are an illegal user, they will soon be purchasing a liscence (if they are serious about a future in this business) because of what chaos did to the software to cause them to ask the question in the first place.
Tony
so what is the answer?
to always turn a blind eye and hope vray doesnt increase in price when you have to purchase an upgrade?
im not saying he is guilty but i would like an explaination on how he fixed the problem that is all.
When we did a large network rendering job recently, across multiple farms, we got frames that were slightly darker or lighter than others. In fact, this even happened over the same farm sometimes.
We were never able to determine why this was the case, not even sure it was VRay at fault.
However, flickering due to authorization problems vs renderfarm flakey-ness would be obvious if a sample were posted.