Feeling Like an Animation Noob

[landrvr1]

Oh boy. I'm feeling noobish.

 

Been a long time since I animated a camera along a path. Usually I move my cameras manually along the timeline, but today I wanted to do a path.

 

When I go to render a couple of test images (first frame and last), I get these 'render passes'. Not a fast render, but 4 or 5 blurry passes before it finally gets to the finish piece. Similar to a vRay render I suppose, but I'm just using scanline.

 

Anyone know what causes this? Why wouldn't you get just a quick still image? My time output is set to Single. Netrender isn't yet incorporated.

 

Thanks.

[Brian Cassil]

I presume you're using max? or maybe viz?

[Matt Clementson]

Sounds to me like you have motion blur switched on.

[landrvr1]

I presume you're using max? or maybe viz?

 

Oops, Max, yeah. Should've mentioned that.

[landrvr1]

Sounds to me like you have motion blur switched on.

 

Hmm. I've got both Object and Image Motion blur turned off in the Renderer. And this DIDN'T occur prior to my adding a motion path.

 

Is there some other motion blur dialog box that I'm missing?

 

Also, when I delete the camera and motion path. Then add a new camera, the same render pass effect still occurs. When I go into another file, erase everything, then import my stuff from the offending file, there's no render passes - just the straightforward scanline.

 

This is only affected in the camera view. When I switch to a perspective view out of the camera view, there's no trouble.

 

Thanks

[landrvr1]

I checked and this baby is making 12 passes. Don't know if that's significant or not.

 

Anybody else? This has got to be a simple fix, and I'm just missing it....

[landrvr1]

Hey Scott,

 

Make sure your camera is selected, go over to the

modifiers panel, scroll down the list of options and

check that the motion blur 'camera' effect hasn't

been checked. Sounds very much like that is your

problem here. It has a definable number of passes

you can set.

 

Bri

 

Brian, you're the man. Jeesh I missed that. Just clicked off the MultiPass effect and that took care of it. Baldrick, thanks to you as well for getting me started in the right direction.

 

Brian Cassil, sorry. I should have posted this in the MAX forum. Thanks for moving this thread.

[only3d]

was it a DOF effect? cuz it sounds like it

 

the "problem" with MAX is that it remembers the configuration of almost evrything u did last, so try 2 remember that.

 

besides in cases like that its helpful 2 reset MAX and start from scratch, this way u dont have 2 worry about the past..

 

good luck

[andreg]

Seems to me you have DOF (depth of field) turned on... just enable it and your problem will be solved

[landrvr1]

only & andreg,

 

Yah, that's exactly what it was. DOF was selected and Multipass was on.

 

Thanks everyone.