Hi all. I'm having a problem with some materials I set to glow not rendering the glow. I've spent several hours working on this project getting everything just right and using the preview render to check it. Finally had everything looking good, all of the glows were rendering, and I decided to do my production render. Set my render size to 300 dpi and 3000 x 4000 pixles, selected final render quality, and rendered to disk. 6 hours later, it finished, and to my shock, no glow!! So I thought maybe for some reason final quality didn't do glows. Didn't make sense to me, but I couldn't think of anything else. So, leaving the dpi and size the same, I changed the render quality to ultra, and rendered to disk again. 20 hours later, still no glow!!! What am I doing wrong here? Why would it render the glow in the preview renders, but not the higher quality renders? Any help here would be great. Thanks in advance! Tony

BTW....I have Vue d'Esprit version 4.20-02 Thank you

hmmm! I really don't know what to answer here, because it works fine for me. It renders first , then anti-aliases and then renders glow (you can see the advancement at bottom of the screen). Maybe you could try to give more glow. The other possibility it doesn't work may be that you have not anough memory and the render stops before its end? Have you tried to render to screen in 1024 size? Does it work? Is it only a problem when you render to disk?

Gebe, During the time betweeen when I posted this and just 2 minutes ago, I ran some other experiments to try to isolate the cause of the problem. The fist thing I tried after the above two failures was to try a small preview render, and save it to disk, to see if that was the problem. The glow still worked there. Then I went back to final render settings, but kept the size small. No glow. Tried a few more things, but the long and short of it was indeed lack of memory. After giving up for a couple of hours and leaving the computer off during that time, I rebooted and tried again. This time success. I guess the moral of the story is always shut-down the computer before attempting to render a large production image. The weird thing is, I wasn't even considering that it was a lack of memory, because the render progress screen was reporting a finished render. But anyways, thanks so much for your reply. Just in reading these boards, I can tell that you are one of the most responsive mods I've ever seen, and that you seem to do it out of the pure passion you have for this software and the community. If Rendo ever has a Mod of the Year competition, my vote would lie with you! (G:`,

GF; You might want to check out a freeware program called cacheman. It runs in the system tray, and is designed to scan through your physical RAM and remove all the detrius that gets left behind. There are other utilities that do this as well, but this is the one that works for me (Win2kpro).

Thanks Dale, I'll take a look at it! (G:`,