I'm getting squares and rectangles in my renders as you can see. I am using Vue 5 Pro Studio with the latest update. My ATI Radeon 9200 has the most recent updated driver with a clean install. XP SP2 completely updated. I'm not sure what to do? I sure hope my video card isn't dying!$$$ Has anyone here experienced anything like this? Thanks for any help on this. :)

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." Leonardo da Vinci

These squares change slightly depending on sun position.

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." Leonardo da Vinci

I've tried different atmos and materials etc... still there. I forgot to mention these were rendered using the ultra setting. I also tried maxing out all the render settings but these squares just got prettier, lol.

Message edited on: 10/08/2005 04:42

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." Leonardo da Vinci

#1 renders have nothing to do with the graphic card. They come out ot the processor. So you maybe should be frightened that your motherboard is... JOKE! You should tell us in what render mode you did your rendering. And in what format/compression rate you saved the rendered image. So that we understand better what is going on. AND, maybe - if possible - make the scene available. Nice egg btw!

One day your ship comes in - but you're at the airport.

I'm using Vue in wireframe mode. The above scenes were all default settings except for the material. I rendered to screen using the Ultra setting at 800x600. I also tried maxing out the settings. Same thing happened. The higher the setting the easier it is to see these squares. It looks like an egg because I resized it in photoshop to 300x300.

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." Leonardo da Vinci

I tried to upload a scene file here but Rendo won't accept vue files. Sorry. Maybe I could email it to someone? If anyone needs more info please let me know. In the meantime I'm checking all other possibilities on my PC. Thanks. :)

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." Leonardo da Vinci

It looks almost like you have a filter on like you would use to simulate light from a window. Weird. Good luck with it I don't know what it is. Marque

Looks like you might have an odd transparency filter in your atmosphere. Your clouds (hard to see for sure) also seem to have a squarish shape- and they are reflecting on the slightly shiney "ground" surface...

Could be one of the aboven or maybe you assigned a variable highlight function?

I think i found the problem in your scene. The ground material (gray) was animated. With a strange filter. I deleted the animation and the problem disappeared. As you can see in my render.

One day your ship comes in - but you're at the airport.

I reopened the scene to delete the animation. When I opened the scene an animation timeline popped up near the top like it always does. Never really understood that until now. Anyway I couldn't figure out how to delete the animation. Instead under "Render Options" I noticed that "Broadcast", "Superior" and "Ultra" all have "Enable motion blurring" checked in the "Render quality" section. Soooo, I went to "User settings" and unchecked "Enable motion blurring". Problem solved!!! Not only that but render speed increased dramatically!!! Not a glitch at all! Just ignorance on my part, lol. :) I really can't thank you enough! :D

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." Leonardo da Vinci

to delete that animation. Go in the timeline to last keyframe of that animation. Select that second keyframe and right-click to get the options. Delete keyframe is one. The animation dispappears.

One day your ship comes in - but you're at the airport.