Hi. I just rendered out a short video of a guy weilding a lightsaber but when i viewed the clip the lightsaber and the guys hair was not rendered properly. The clip can be downloaded here: http://www.streamload.com/dlein/Rogue_Jedi_Saga. Select the mp4 file. (You might need quicktime 6 to view the file) I rendered the file using the production settings, and when I render individual images the renders were fine. Does anybody know what happened and how I can fix it? Thanks. Pedrith :)

Definitely strange. Looks like the saber was rendered in preview mode! I think we can conclude that rendering direct to AVI is broken in the latest P5. I've had some equally strange results, and some good ones, for no obvious reason. Separate images seem to work consistently OK.

under the "make movie" settings, you have to set the quality to current RENDER settings. You've got it set on current DISPLAY settings.

It is an easy mistake to make, because current display settings is the default one.

If you are using don in your finished render, then you could change his face in the faceroom some way, so that he doesn`t look like don.

xantor's right, it's an easy mistake to make. I didn't use caps to SHOUT, i just used them for CLARITY..... xantor's also right about the face room.

The first clue should be when your animation renders in 3 minutes instead of 5 hours :D

I though that it rendered fast. I'm going to try what was suggested and see what happens. i'm just using Don as a test, final characters will be different. I'll report back what happened. Pedrith :)

Brainmuffin I wasn`t critisizing your answer I was just pointing out that the mistake was easy to make.

Hi all. I tried what Brainmuffin said and it worked like a charm. Thanks. Pedrith :)

I know, xantor, but I re-read it myself, and it seemed to me that someone might mistake it for SHOUTING. If only I knew how to add bold or italics.... You're welcome, pedrith. And remember: render the animation with display settings for quick tests, and try not to use full render settings until you're sure you're done. In cases like this, where you want to test the transparency or motion blur settings, try to do it on a lower resolution, like half of what your final resolution will be. If you just find yourself annoyed that you can't see the transparency in the test renders, turn the transparency off until you're ready for the final render. I do this a lot when I'm trying to animate transmapped hair.

Another tip: Render one picture with all the finished render settings on and full size to check that transparency reflections and shadows etc work properly.

Brainmiffin,
It's actually easy to add bold and italics here, just put in the usual html syntax and off you go.

That is < b > / < /b > and < i > / < /i > (without the spaces). Remember the /b / /i to stop it again ;o)

Don't use the "this message is in html..." checkbox, it's not needed to do this.

Cool! I had no idea whatsoever how to do it! Thanks ernyoka1!