Re: Re[4]: Frames Rendering Blank

["Byron Nash" <byronnash(at)gmail.com>]

On this scene, my problem seemed to be linked to a visibility animation in conjunction with motion blur. I discarded the visibility and was able to use a zero scale instead. I know that approach won't work for a lot of scenes but it was a suitable workaround in my case. I have had some scenes randomly drop objects in the render even when I wasn't animating the visibility. Weird.

Sorry I can't help any more than that, good luck.

Byron

On 3/15/06, Lee_Carus(at)scee.net < Lee_Carus(at)scee.net> wrote:

The objects disappear in the region as well. I'm not doing a network render but am doing satellite - though when I commented out the render targets the problem was still there.

The uvw trick did work with satellite.

Lee

Frank Lenhard < franky(at)ixdream.com>

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just to make sure, when you render a preview or region the objects
show up, right? at least thats what its doing here.
your uvw trick, does it work with network rendering? in my case the
objects have uvw's and bitmaps mapped.

ciao
franky


Wednesday, March 15, 2006, 12:49:59 PM, you wrote:

Lsn> I've been getting this too - turning off MB seems to fix it albeit it
Lsn> temporarily (unfortunate if you need MB on your shot!)

Lsn> I've also noticed that I can get the objects that disappear to render
Lsn> again if I got into the UV set box and simply click on the current UV set
Lsn> - not very nice at all!




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Lsn> i cant add any insights to this, just my own little misery.

Lsn> i got a scene, with some passes, mblur on.
Lsn> one pass, which is supposed to render two objects (a ground plane and
Lsn> an metal elephant on it) constantly gives me headaches. unregulary it
Lsn> doesnt render the elephant or the plane. right now the plane is
Lsn> missing. i render in a small network, so the 5 frames i assign each
Lsn> renderslave miss one or the other object.
Lsn> then i usually go and delete these frames per hand and let it render
Lsn> locally(skip rendered frames).
Lsn> now since today even this doesnt work and i end up with missing
Lsn> objects.
Lsn> last resort seesm to be to put the frame number per hand in the render
Lsn> start/end fields and press render.
Lsn> is it useful to send this scene to SI and if, how?

Lsn> ciao
Lsn> franky

Lsn> Monday, March 13, 2006, 6:38:25 PM, you wrote:

AL>> I've had the same problem, and its truly amazing that such a bug has
AL>> remained unresolved in a 'highend' app like XSI.   If anything would
Lsn> mandate
AL>> an immediate hotfix from Softimage, this would be it.  What good are
Lsn> all the
AL>> great tools and elegant interface, when the animation you work so hard
Lsn> to
AL>> create may or may not render properly?  Very disappointing.



AL>> On 3/13/06, Byron Nash <byronnash(at)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I got some scenes here that keep rendering frames with nothing in them.
>>> The scene has Motion Blur and both 3D and 2D DOF shaders. I am using
>>> "Deformation Motion Blur" I saw an earlier post that sound similar to
Lsn> my
>>> problem, something about 5.01 with MB and visibility animation.  In my
>>> case none of the objects are rendered on certain frames. Is this the
Lsn> same
>>> problem some of you have come across? Was the fix to switch any
Lsn> visibility
>>> animation to transparency?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Byron Nash
>>> www.armoredsquirrel.com
>>>

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