Smidgit opened this issue on Aug 05, 2011 · 4 posts
Smidgit posted Fri, 05 August 2011 at 11:04 PM
Hi all, I'm using Poser Pro 2010 and was rendering a 30 sec animation using the basic render settings and then thowing it into the queue manager and all was going well .. then I tweaked the settings slightly (slid the bar up a notch and took raytracing off) and now it sits at FRAME 1 and wont' go past it for any of my animations. I tried to put the settings back but it's making no difference.. it still hangs and won't move to render frame 1. I am hoping there is a simple answer to this. My bus partner uses Poser Pro 2010 as well and his queue manager renders great except for 1 characeter? Very odd. If anyone can shed any light onto this it would be greatly appreciated. Cheers
rokket posted Sat, 06 August 2011 at 3:14 AM
How long did you let it sit at frame 1 before you decided it was freezing there? Depending on how much you have in the scene as far as characters and props, et al, your render could take a very long time to do. I have a very short amimation that I did on youtube that took almost 9 hours to render.
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Smidgit posted Sat, 06 August 2011 at 5:50 AM
Hi rockket .. we are rendering on 4 different machines and have done heaps of 30 second renders and our average is about 6 hours per render and it was working great on my machine until I moved a couple of settings.. (gwad!) and now it just won't move past frame 1 no matter what animation I try to load. It's driving me a bit nuts and I am copying the same settings as our other machines .. and still no joy. In fact we even have 1 toon character that just won't render on any of our machines! grrrr very frustration .. however our other 8 characters all render fine. I'm at a loss what it's due to. I feel like it needs to be RE_SET back to a default or something and that might give it the kick in the guts it needs?? Hmm wonder if there is such a button.
Yep aware that lots of props take heaps longer ... a trick we do is turn the whole scene with props into a jpg and drop it back in the scene as a 2d background and it will cut your render time down HEAPS... (as long as you don't need a 3d prop that is).
rokket posted Sat, 06 August 2011 at 5:53 AM
I do the same thing. Unless the character needs to interact with it, my backgrounds and props are done post.
I am at a loss, hopefully the gurus will chime in and help you here.
If I had a nickle for ever time a woman told me to get lost, I could buy Manhattan.