Various drop frame problems 2004-05-28 - By Bernard Lebel
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Yeah all these things are under control, so I don't see why we would get so
many bad frames, it's just insane.
Thanks a lot
Bernard
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From: "Sandy Sutherland" <sandy@(protected)>
To: <XSI@(protected)>
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 2:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Batchserve] Various drop frame problems
> 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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> -- -- Original Message -- --
> 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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