bucket errors with mental ray. Max 9.

[wasteland giant]

 

I'm normally a Vray user but thought I'd use mental ray for my latest project. It all seemed to be going fine til I set up my batch render and came in the next morning to find this! If anyone could help troubleshoot, I'd really appreciate it.

 

Thanks in advance

[Tay othman]

do you use mentalray Satellite?

if you use this make sure all 3rd party shaders are installed on satellite hosts

[hatem2d]

Hi, I used to have this problem in max 9 with mental ray and specially in rendring high resolution. Maybe if you split the file to strips by the backburner this may help or use lower resolution...but I think it is a silly bug in the program and thats why I switched from max 8 to 2008 directly.

[wasteland giant]

yes. rendering a largeish image 2000x3000 or thereabouts. Using Max9's built in mental ray - non satellite.

 

I've got to have a look into how to split this thing up in backburner. If anyone needs info, some more in a parallel thread here:

 

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=6&t=594997

 

thanks for the responses!

[Justin Hunt]

Try rendering through backburner, saving the fg at a lower resolution first then rerendering the frozen fgm

Split scanline rendering can also help

 

the black buckets are a memory issue so free up as much as possible.

 

JHV