marksee Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 I am getting desperate to find a solution to the following problem - nothing I do is working. I have a scene that I have been working on for about 4 months now, an animation for a new hospital that has gone through many revisions. Anyway, Half way through our office switched from viz 08 to max design 09, still using vray. I had absolutely no problems with viz, but the switch played havoc with my model. I finally got everything mapped back correctly and now I cannot render a camera view. If I switch to perspective from that camera, not moving an inch, it will render, but if I go back to the camera backburner will error every time. If it were for stills, no problem except that this file is for a movie - obviously if I can't render w/ a camera I'm in trouble. Does anyone have any suggestions for what I might be able to try? It doesn't matter if its a freecam or target cam, new or old... no difference... please help!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marksee Posted October 28, 2008 Author Share Posted October 28, 2008 Also have merged everything to a new file without any cameras.... no change Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amer abidi Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 you mean even if you create a new camera, it still doesnt render? as in all black?! have you tried creating a new vray physical cam? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marksee Posted October 28, 2008 Author Share Posted October 28, 2008 (edited) no.... i have not tried the physical camera... I have not used it but perhaps I should give it a shot. It doesn't render at all.... Backburner returns the error "task error: an unexpected exception has occurred in the network renderer and it is terminating." I don't even think it gets as far as assigning the frame.... it calls up the V-Ray dll and then crashes... *** i just tried the vray physical camera and it errors too.... Edited October 28, 2008 by marksee *** i just tried the vray physical camera and it errors too.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amer abidi Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 damn man.. sorry to hear that only thing i can advise you to try and do is merge some elements and then others till you find out whats corrupting your scene. ITs happened to me once before, after migrating from max 9 to max 2009 in the middle of a project.. same exact backburner error. Turned out that the instanced lightposts i had in the streets were corrupting the network render for some reason.. but it took me some while to find that out. so get a pen and paper handy.. write down all your major scene objects..then the minor ones, and keep merging and test rendering till you find out where the glitch is. hope this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marksee Posted October 28, 2008 Author Share Posted October 28, 2008 It does help... at least it gives me some direction. It just seems weird that it would render normal with no change in perspective but error in camera mode... very odd.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianKitts Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 make sure you have the service pack for max2009 installed.... without it you are prone to backburner crashes as well. With luck maybe that will solve your problem. http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=11384420&linkID=9241178 If new cameras work, just drop in a new camera and align it with the old, or if it's animated, go into the track editor and copy over the keys that you had previously setup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marksee Posted October 29, 2008 Author Share Posted October 29, 2008 It works!!! installed the hotfix patch and service pack and no problems!!! thanks so much... some images of the movie attached... First two from the movie, and the second for presentation board... thanks again!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amer abidi Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 nice one! =) cheers Brian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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