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    Animation and the DR Spawner

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    • V Offline
      valerostudio
      last edited by

      Honestly, I don't know. 1.49.01 had issues with DR and issues with saving light maps so animation and DR was just territory you didn't tread on back then. It could be a bug. Hopefully Devin will chime in on this one.

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      • andybotA Offline
        andybot
        last edited by

        I just tested and animation seems to work fine in 1.6 with DR. I used saved maps.

        http://charlottesvillearchitecturalrendering.com/

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        • dkendigD Offline
          dkendig
          last edited by

          if you haven't done so already, please submit a bug report. Animation is a rather large feature, and we want it working properly, so this should get high priority in our bug tracker. I know there have been some changes to how DR works with animation. Fernando told me yesterday that LC now works properly in animation, but I don't think he was using DR for those tests. He is out of the office today, but if you send in a bug report to our bug tracker, we will be sure to get to it at some point in the near future.

          Devin Kendig
          Developer

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          • N Offline
            n3v
            last edited by

            Hi I used DR and saved light cache files as per the tutorial, how do you submit a bug report dkendig?

            andybot, did you let it render past the first scene? Mine worked ok with saved maps up until the first scene and then the slaves dropped off. When starting and restarting the DR spawner the host would send over the info but the slaves wouldnt render

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            • N Offline
              n3v
              last edited by

              Ok as an update, I have tried the following two variations still with no improvement

              1. after precalculating the LC, this time I loaded the LC from file and left the irradiance map to 'incrementally add'

              2. no precalculations - straight render

              still the slaves drop off after the first frame, I get the impession that the machine is receiving the data but is waiting for something to activate it.

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              • andybotA Offline
                andybot
                last edited by

                That sounds like a trouble that was happening with the older betas. Are you sure you have updated to the latest released beta? Yes, I tried all the frames, not just the first.

                http://charlottesvillearchitecturalrendering.com/

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                • dkendigD Offline
                  dkendig
                  last edited by

                  n3v - http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums/vbulletin/showthread.php?72758-How-to-submit-a-bug-report <-- How to submit a bug report. Essentially, you just send an email to vfswip@chaosgroup.com, but the forum post outlines the kind of information we need to help track this issue down.

                  Devin Kendig
                  Developer

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                  • N Offline
                    n3v
                    last edited by

                    andybot I am using 1.60.23 jun 11 that is the latest right? is there any chance you could somehow share your settings so I can see whether I have set up the scene wrong as I wouldn't want to report a false bug.

                    Dkendig, I will follow Andy's advice first to make sure that its the software and not me and then if not I will submit.

                    thanks both

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                    • N Offline
                      n3v
                      last edited by

                      new candidate build doesnt appear to have fixed this. beginning to wonder whether its my setup or the software. Also now appears that patch render in animation no longer wants to work?

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                      • andybotA Offline
                        andybot
                        last edited by

                        @n3v said:

                        andybot I am using 1.60.23 jun 11 that is the latest right? is there any chance you could somehow share your settings so I can see whether I have set up the scene wrong as I wouldn't want to report a false bug.

                        Here is my model if you want to take a look. Nothing fancy.


                        animation_basic_test5_A.skp

                        http://charlottesvillearchitecturalrendering.com/

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                        • N Offline
                          n3v
                          last edited by

                          Hi Andy bot, thanks for sharing I will check out your model when I get a chance and let you know how it goes. My model is around 61mb and I didnt use any proxies to avoid them not being sent across the network.

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                          • dkendigD Offline
                            dkendig
                            last edited by

                            asset collection should no longer be something to fear, it's automatic, and behind the scenes.

                            Devin Kendig
                            Developer

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                            • S Offline
                              Sephiroxxx
                              last edited by

                              If you found the Fix please post it. I am having the same problem, it uses all cores / slaves for first images and after that only main cores.

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                              • N Offline
                                n3v
                                last edited by

                                Sephiro - nothing as yet, will let you know when I know more

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