MR Rendering (in Max): render stops at 99.99% - image not saved

[nisus]

Hi all,

 

I'm rendering an image (without virtual framebuffer) with the latest backburner (DBR and no DBR). The image renders about 1.5hours, but stays at 99.99% (for over 16hours now - task timeout 600min is solved in the main time - and still going...) I've had this several times already...

Sometimes I have 100% on the max render dialog, and 99.99% in the server window, but the file is never being saved... (which is frustrating of course)

 

I tried all kinds of memory savings from turning of the VFB, to placeholders, bitmap pagers, MR map managers etc... but it just doesn't seem to work...

 

Does anyone has any idea what is causing this?

 

At first I thought it was one slave (a machine not a person!) that got stick somewhere in DBR but I got also got it without DBR... Any help is most welcome ;-)

 

rgds,

 

nisus

[Spacelord]

What does the Mental Ray Message window say ?

Have a look, see if it says your running out of frame buffer space (something like that).

[nisus]

No error messages at all... just the "99.99% rendered on pc..."

 

nisus

[raterry]

Wish I could help but not sure what is happening there. I would only suggest; have you tried to replicate the problem witha very simple scene? or is it only that particular scene giving you problems. I'm sure you have but just in case; have you checked all the paths, etc. It almost seems like it can finish the render but is having problems saving.

 

Good luck and let us know what you come up with.

-=Rob

[nisus]

Tnx Rob. Idd I checked everything. I don't even remember how I solved the problem by now... I know I did, but not a clue how... (probably just split the image)

 

nisus