iplooney opened this issue on May 14, 2004 ยท 6 posts
iplooney posted Fri, 14 May 2004 at 6:58 PM
I just accidently cancelled a network render that was writing to my host computer. I can see all the .frn files in the temp folder. This was a very large file at 92% completion after many many days of rendering. Is there any way to recover through the temp folder? Any help will delay my suicide!!! Thanks
shadowdragonlord posted Fri, 14 May 2004 at 7:08 PM
I don't know what a .frn file is, perhaps you are using a Mac? I don't think there is any way to fix a network render, my friend. But, you could try to do it the same way you would normally, by opening the appropriate AX file with Bryce 5... I know it works on XP, but I don't know much about OSX. Was it a single still that was taking you days?!?! Perhaps some optimization is in order...? Show us your scene and it might help...?
iplooney posted Fri, 14 May 2004 at 7:29 PM
Sorry - It is on xp - a .FRM (not frn) file - many individual files from a long animation. I accidentally hit cancel when it was highlighted in the network render dialogue window (my machine would often stop mid render because it said it was out of memory but I could always resume the render and it indicated that the precentage of completion was increasing. I can see all the temp files (480 megs worth!) but I don't know how to convert them out or recover within Bryce. Thanks
danamo posted Fri, 14 May 2004 at 9:05 PM
I hate to say it, but as far as I have been able to ascertain, unless you were rendering your animation as a bitmap seq. file you are SOL. I've had power interruptions abort long animation renders on more than one occasion, but seq. files are still salvagable even if they are interrupted because the individual .bmp files are stored in a folder. It is easy to convert the seq. files to AVI or QT in a video editing app. Maybe Clay will chime in on this, he's one of the experts.
Quest posted Sat, 15 May 2004 at 2:14 AM
Couldn't you pick up the sequence from where it left off? Say frames 105 through 200?
Innovator posted Sat, 15 May 2004 at 6:39 AM
yeah...sorry to say...dont think there is anything you can do (not to my knowledge anyways). But to reiterate what danamo said...make sure next time you do sequence files instead of rendering straight to AVI or MOV. This prevents any cancellation/power issues because you can pick up where you left off. I have learned this the hard way like yourself...good luck