Renderama hangs for hours/days

[Thomo]

Hi,

This is a new one to me as I have had most renderama error messages in the past. All were fixable thanks to this forum but this is a new one.

Renderama hangs on one strip and will not render it. I am rendering a still image. I have tried dividing into all different numbers of strips, same thing. It will render the same image at low res. 960, but when I go to 3600 it hangs. No error messages of any sort.

Rendering over 64 bit PC's and Mac.

Has anyone seen this before?

Thanks

[Tomas Egger]

Ola Thomo,

Are you using GI? any plug-in? turn off GI and Anti-Aliases in the render window, see if it render with 3600 pixels.

Thanks

Tom

[Thomo]

Yes it renders ok. What should I do?

[Tomas Egger]

Ola Thomo,

How many Primary Rays are you using in GI window? Are you using secondary rays too? are they necessary?

Start with 40 Primary Rays and 0 Secondary rays, try again, without Anti-Aliases to speed up the tests.

Thanks

Tom

[Thomo]

Ok I'll try that.

I am not using secondary rays, way too slow. Using a separate light as secondary GI. I was using 200 primary rays and 0 secondary. I'll switch back to 40 and turn off Anti Alias.

Thanks again and I'll let you know how I go.

[Thomo]

Hi Tomas,

Ok that works fine now.

So what is the likely cause? Strange just one strip will not render.

Just about to try with AA on at 40 rays now.

[Tomas Egger]

Ola,

One Strip only? is it not working in all slaves this specific strip? try to render it only in the local mode.

Second, If 40 + AA works, try to use higher Primary rays until Camera 8 reach the limit to render.

Thanks

Tom

[Thomo]

It does not work at 40 rays with AA turned on. Local mode is the same problem. One strip only. Same strip every time (I've tried many different numbers of strips). Same strip on all slaves.

100 rays with no AA works fine.

Any help, thanks. Been at this for 2 days now !! :-(

[Tomas Egger]

Ola Thomo,

If you are in a huge deadline, please, send me the project, will be a pleasure to render for you.

Do you have all Cameras with 2000MB (2GB) of ram assigned?

Thanks

Tom

[Thomo]

Hi Tomas,

Sorry for not posting, I've been in transit for a couple of days.

All cameras do have 2GB assigned.

I am having trouble with most of my renders over renderama now.

What I don't understand is why some strips (one or two) will not render, (sometimes they do after maybe 48-72 hrs) but all the other strips in the still image will render in a matter of moments with no problems.

I will need to send a couple of renders to you if that is ok. Some clients are getting pretty anxious now and I really need to get these rendered.

Let me know if this is still ok and i'll speak tomorrow and arrange to send the files.

Thanks again.

Thomo

[Tomas Egger]

Ola Thomo,

Send me the project, lets see what can I do!

Thanks

Tom