Has anybody else had this problem? I've been doing a few large renderings to disk (c drive/my docs/my picts/e-on. . . ),and 30 hrs later there is nothing there. No rendering and no file at all after doing a search of my hard drive that would even match it. The program is acting normally, and I'm getting no error messages. Any ideas?

I've had that just rendering to screen or main view..my screen just normally sits there black, it's rare, I just shut down/reboot & everthing is back to "normal". Using Vue5 latest build.

Oh, for those interested Vue has said an update will out by end of week to address the OOM messages for Vue5 :)

Message edited on: 11/29/2004 19:09

If running Windows XP, hit control-atl-Delete and see if the program is running or freezing due to memory constraints. It may be locked and recycling. Just something to try.

It runs like it's working. The long render time isn't unexpected. I'm trying to do a 30"x42" rendering. when it ends, it says its finished with the amount of time that it took, but then its not there. This has happened to me a couple of times.

Which version of Vue are you using??? I know on the 1st release of V5, there was a limit on render size. But that has since been addressed.

v5 w/ the latest update. win xp

Message edited on: 11/29/2004 21:42

hmmm...I have to go to bed now....I'll test tomorrow a render at that size with a scene I have. What exactly are your settings under render in the Size area and are your atmospheric settings & what render setting are you using ie. final/broadcast/superior?. I can try to recreate the same problem. How many polys are in your pic??? I ask up front because I haven't been able to get over 7mil polys with 1 procedural terrain....only 3mil polys with 6 procedurals. But I'm willing to test tomorrow evening USA EST time...around say 5-6pm. For example, I tried to do a re-render of my lasted posted pic with Global Radiosity set, started the render at 6pm Sat. Night only to wake up and have about 2 lines completed, total render time was appx at 98hours o.O..I quickly quit that as the pic was not wort it LOL.

What happens when you click on Display last render? Does anything show up? Also, with that large size, depending on your settings, it should take even longer. I've had one run for 4 times that long at a very high setting (User controlled) with volumetric atmos and lighting that was only 1600x1200. The poly count wasn't even 1 mil. Thank heavens for "resume render".

here's a smaller version of it. I've been able to render it before at the same settings, but from time to time they have just vanished on me. 1.3 million polys, 2 lights, no special lighting (volumetric or radiosity), I have about 8 low poly p5 people and I'm using RUNTIME DNA pines. render settings are superior at 30x42 @ 100 dpi.

I did a quick test..just plunked in 8 naked judys, about 10 of those RDNA pines & a building and few other odds & ends around 2mil polys...Mine crashed with an OOM message. That said the mem. meter was fine. There has been talk over at e-on that Poser 5 might be the problem. And the Vue doesn't know how to describe, the problem other than with an OOM. Maybe too many PZ3's??? I'm sorry, But I didn't even get a render out. Good luck :)....You might want to post over at E-ON & report this to there techies.

Thanks for trying :)

I"ve had some problems like this when rendering at large size and high resolution in Vue 4 Pro (which is on it's own disk partition). I increased the virtual memory on the drive, and before doing one of these big renders, I defrag the drive. Works like a charm. Maybe you could try the same thing?

cool, i'll have to try that next time. :)