Various drop frame problems 2004-05-28 - By Sandy Sutherland
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Bernard - we are using Batchserve here and have not really had too many
problems like you - most of our problems have been with my animators putting
incorrect paths, i.e. using mapped drives instead of UNC, missing textures
etc. The other problems have really been to do with rendering glitches such
as trying to use too much memory etc.. BTW you mention dirtmap - this is an
important one - you have to obviously make sure that any and all
addons/plugins/shaders are installed correctly on all render machines.
Yep my biggest problem with Batchserve right now, aprt from it not being
available on Linux yet - is the error handling, you can obviously turn on
Verbose in the render panel of you XSI scene before saving and submitting,
then you will find a log file in the bin directory of you batchserve install
on each render machine, that might help you trap errors!
Cheers
S.
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From: "Bernard Lebel" <atyss4si@(protected)>
To: <XSI@(protected)>
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 2:03 PM
Subject: [Batchserve] Various drop frame problems
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to know from the Batchserve users on this list if they have lots
of
> drop frames in their rendered sequences, and what steps they have taken to
> overcome them. Of course, switching to another render manager at this
point
> is not an option.
>
> Over here we have tons of them. They seem to be COMPLETELY RANDOM, as they
> affect different machines (but rarely twice the same) on some frames and
not
> other frames, and so on. It's the point where I suspect a problem more
with
> Batchserve rather than mental ray, XSI. Batchserve doesn't log any error
> though, so it's very hard to pinpoint what's going in. I suspect vaguely
> that it's pretty all related to the same problem (something to do with
> refreshing?), but now it's still a vague speculation.
>
> Typical drop-frames include:
>
> - Incidence shader not rendering on some objects;
> - Occlusion pass with Dirtmap giving white images;
> - Frames rendered completely black (alpha channel even black);
> - Objects disappearing;
> - Frames of only 1k;
> - Frames not rendered at all;
>
> And I won't even mention hair problems.
>
>
>
> Thanks for any help
> Bernard
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