What is this that is at the bottom of my image? RUINED 2 days of rendering! I've been getting it on my images that have GR applied. It's not an element or an effect or anything. Anyone have any ideas?

Here's the image

Did you apply the latest upgrade to Vue Infinite ? I seem to remember the first release had this kind of issue with reflective materials or water among other things. If you are using the latest version, I would report the problem to e-on. I know they are actively working on resolving bugs. Nice work by the way. Also.. you will not have to redo everything. If you take a rectangle with a black material with no highlights, you will just have to place it in front of the camera and move it to mask the good part of the image. Then just render the bottom part only and composite the two in photoshop or equivalent.

or, select so it renders to a new window with the same image dimensions as this main image (in Render Options), then select render to region and drag out the rectangle that you want re-rendered on the viewport and it will render out to the new window at a dimension so that you can just overlay the finished "render to region" image with this image in PS. Hope that makes sense...trying to give a tutorial from memory...which is never a good idea :P Cheers

Yeah, I'll do that once the issue is resolved. For now I contacted E-On about it (couldnt find any info on this in the knowledge base) and I guess I play the waiting game. Bah! Thx for the replies. I may be SOL until a new build which blows.

You can also try playing with the material you are using for the ground. Eliminatew reflection and highlights, reduce the bump, things like that. Maybe one of these settings is causing the issue. Since your 'road' material is seen from a distance, you may be able to get a similar result without the artefacts.

Well, I'd play with it a bit but you may not be able to see this, but it's not restricted to the road. It shows up on the road mostly, but also on the curb, on the back-right tire of the red car, on a shadow behind one of the frontmost bollards, grass, concrete, smaller front-right pillar, hood of the silver car, the tree next to the pinkish building, bushes. Thusly, I believe its something in the file and not a texture issue. I have yet to see or hear of this problem in any Vue forum. I hate waiting on this sort of thing. I've attached another pic to show you what I mean.

...just did a test to see if it was img size related and it isn't. Rendered out one at lower quality and the same exact major problem areas exist. Maybe its an indirect lighting issue. I will now try changing the quality of GI to +1.0 instead of -1.0. Maybe that'll do the trick.

It looks like a divide by zero problem in the render stack but it may well be related to the quality setting of your indirect lighting

MAAAAAAAAAAAAN increasing the quality of the GI impacts your render time. I had at at 640x480 user settings and GI at -1.0 and it took 40 mins. Upgrade it to +0.2 (+ 1.0 had estimated 6 hrs) and it's taking about 2 and a half hrs. :(

Try #1 Ok, so increasing the GI made it even worse. Next step, I'll try to change that material...maybe it's affecting the entire file.

Message edited on: 12/05/2005 14:43

Ended up being a geometry issue. Once I reimported it was fine. Hell yeah.

Black recatngle???? What an ugly hack. Never heard of the limited region feature??