Re: Frame buffer 0 invalid

["Alan Jones" <skyphyr(at)gmail.com>]

When mental ray made the switch to supporting unlimited frame buffers (I think 3.3, but I can't remember for sure) it switched from keeping the framebuffers in memory to on disk. I assume XSI is using the capacity seeing we have a version of mental ray which suports this feature - though ask Soft for confirmation on this one.

Cheers,

Alan.

On 7/18/06, kim aldis <kim(at)aldis.org.uk> wrote:

Probably not. That 128 byte file only holds port information to connect directly to mental ray. There's no file information in there and  unless they changed something mental ray keeps everything in memory, not in a temp file.

 

From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of James A Coletta
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Open imf_disp.exe in the C:\Softimage\XSI_5.1\Application\bin folder. Point it to open the 1k file in the render picture folder that should open the mental ray temp file, if its there.

Christian Götzinger <cg(at)pension-goetzinger.de>
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07/18/2006 10:35 AM

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Hey guys,

I have this scene that I need rendered asap. It's a very big scene and
I'm happy that it rendered properly. Well, it rendered properly, and
when it was time to write the output file to disk, Mental Ray chose not to:
Error 051003: frame buffer 0 invalid, cannot create file

So, after 27 hours of rendering I'm sitting here without a file and have
no clue what went wrong. I had rendered out a small preview (800 pixels
wide) of the very same scene just a few days ago. The only thing that's
changed since then are a couple of material settings, higher render
settings and a higher output resolution (3000 pixels wide).

I need this darn scene rendered, what can I do? I mean what on earth did
Mental Ray do with all the data it calculated over the last day? Threw
it away?

Cheers,
Chris