Re: XSI6 woes

["guillaume laforge" <guillaume.laforge.3d(at)gmail.com>]

I've played with 6 yesterday and I've got more crash than with 5.11 using render region. 

On
two crashes I've got a message telling me that Mental Ray was dead and
that I should save my work. I was pretty happy to see this new message,
thinking we can now use xsi even when mr crash but after I clic ok on
the message box, xsi crashed ( and I couldn't save the scene with the message box open ).
On an other crash, xsi tell me that the scene was save but when I
re-open xsi and choose to load the recovered scene, xsi close
instantaneously...

Then I realised I forgot to set the mental ray memory limit in render region options.
Once fixed, no crash at all despite a lot of render region test for my new year card.

>mr3.5 looks really great , setting rendering options is now a very
>complex science !!!

I agree it is a new rendering science ! After five minutes looking for how to copy render region options in the current pass I gave up and did it manually.
I can see the button in the new Renderer Options but it is grayed.

1/2


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Guillaume Laforge
freelance TD | cg Artist
my blog ! http://vol2blog.blogspot.com/

On 1/3/07, Luc Froelicher <lulu(at)alamaison.fr> wrote:

I've been on it all day , on linux , doing mainly rendertree and
renderregion kind of stuffs
and it only hangs once at the end of a rendermap.for no reason ...
the rendermap was ok on disc but I had to kill XSI bruteforce.

otherwise it was a good experience.
mr3.5 looks really great , setting rendering options is now a very
complex science !!!

still some graphics glitches , just at the limit of being annoying  ... :(

Adrian Lopez wrote:
> Strange,  we just used 6 on a fairly complex character spot, and it
> was flawless - we also made extensive use of delta referencing, a few
> third party plugins - and it never crashed once.   Don't get me wrong,
> we were nervous about using 6 so soon out of the pipe, but we had no
> problems - and character sets made things so much easier.
>
> Adrian
>
>
> On 1/3/07, *Frank Lenhard* < frank.lenhard(at)gmail.com
> <mailto:frank.lenhard(at)gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello List,
>
>     *in case this posting arrives twice, my apologies*
>
>     i just sum up my short experience with xsi6 from one day. this wont
>     sond nice, mainly because i didn not reach the point where i could
>     make
>     use of the new features and improvements. i am also way to much under
>     pressure to investigate into each problem i encountered right now,
>     because deadlines are looming. so i am continuing production with 5.11
>     xsi 5.11 runs rock solid on the same machine i installed V6.
>
>     1. crashes,
>     i got suprised by about 10 crashes in one day. most of them, out of
>     the blue. most annoying where that it crashed while saving scenes (no
>     usable files where left, but at least the old file did not got
>     destroyed) or exporting models.  both kind of crashes are ugly,
>     because they hit you exactly when you did your work and leave you with
>     nothing. i didnt do any specialized stuff. no rendering, no shaders.
>     just organzizing a master scene into different shots.
>     render region crashed on me twice.
>     it crashed on me while defining a new screen layout.
>
>     2.characters.
>     i got a character that was built and rigged in 5.11.
>     that one loads fine in xsi6 but, after saving and reloading in v6 it
>     generates all kind of weird effects. mostly it gives me some problems
>     while loading the v6 saved file and performs a "cleanup".
>     the result is a destroyed rig.
>     usually it looses the connection of the control curves to
>     shapeweights. or gives funny results when using them, like exploding
>     the head when it just should move the eyebrow up. again, everything
>     worked when the character was in v6 first time.
>     so i loaded the character in v6 first, set up CKsets and such and
>     exportet as an v6 model. still the same behaviour.
>
>     3. animation editor.
>     seems i have to learn it new. but one thing that seemed really
>     strange
>     was that when i wanna move the right handles of a key(s) and want to
>     move them to screen right, i have to move the mouse to screen left.
>
>     3. explorer
>     simple thing, i wanted to rename couple objects. suddenly it behaved
>     weird, didnt let me select new objects. then it did. but didnt renamed
>     them any more. f2 didnt worked any more. there was one object, wheni
>     clicked it i got instantly a cursor in the name field, as if i had
>     pressed f2, but i didnt. enter stopped working and the viewports
>     where
>     inactive. reloading the scene didnt fix it, restarting xsi did fix it.
>
>
>     i will take some time after i finished the project in v5 to
>     investigate and maybe file some bugreports. btw, as some others noted,
>     the webform doesnt show v6 yet.
>
>     ciao
>     franky
>
>
>
>
> --
> Adrian Lopez
> CEO | Director | Producer
> Liquid Light Digital
> Kingston, Jamaica
> C:  876.381.2471
> W: 876.978.6418
>
> www.liquidlightdigital.com <http://www.liquidlightdigital.com>
>
> HD/SD Production | VFX & Animation | Production Management

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