Kevin Posted February 21, 2003 Share Posted February 21, 2003 For months I have been trying to get a Final Renderworks animation to work. Every time it freezes or quits. A couple of times I even got a "One or more operations were aborted due to lack of memory, increase partition size". This is while under OSX where you cannot assign partition sizes! The program will happily render up to around 200 frames and then freeze. I then have to force quit. After upgrading to OS10.2.4 it now sometimes quits the program. It will generate wireframe and Open GL animations just fine. It is when I switch to Final Renderworks that it freezes. I have tried rendering with NURBS both on and off. If anyone has an ideas, I sure would appreciate it. VW9.5.3, OS10.2.4, 1ghz Powerbook with 1gig of RAM. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Dave Donley Posted February 22, 2003 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted February 22, 2003 Hello Kevin: Please send me a copy of this file at dave@nemetschek.net Do you have any textures that have a combination of an image-based shader and a transparency shader like Plain? The latest release works OK with these, but earlier releases would crash when the scanline reaches any objects that use such textures. Quote Link to comment
Hunter B Posted March 12, 2003 Share Posted March 12, 2003 Dave... I too have had problems with rendering annimations. I can never seem to get past the 200 frame point either. Did you guys figure this out??? Any hints as to how everybody else solves this? Quote Link to comment
Kaare Baekgaard Posted March 13, 2003 Share Posted March 13, 2003 I had a similar problem. When the program runs out of memory, I get no warnings at all - which I used to get under system 9.x. I found out, that the most memory-consuming for Renderworks is rendering with multible shadowcasting lightsources. When I turned off the shadows for most lightsources (all except 1 or 2), I had no problems. Quote Link to comment
Kevin Posted March 13, 2003 Author Share Posted March 13, 2003 Thanks guys for your input. NNA has my file and says that they are working on a solution. I find it hard to believe that it would be memory related as I am operating under OS10 with 1024MB of memory. As far as light sources, I am using only 1 plus ambient. I hope NNA finds a solution soon. Quote Link to comment
Hunter B Posted March 24, 2003 Share Posted March 24, 2003 Kevin.... Any response to this .... Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted March 24, 2003 Share Posted March 24, 2003 We are still looking into the problem to determine where it breaks down. Please note, the renderworks application and the rendering application RW is built off of is very complex. This investigation takes time to track down the exact culprit in order for us to fix it. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted March 25, 2003 Share Posted March 25, 2003 Please see Dave's response on the following post. Quote Link to comment
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