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Rendering DOTS? render doesnt seem to complete?
Started by pthomas1172, May 23, 2017, 11:23:43 AM
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Rendering DOTS? render doesnt seem to complete?
May 23, 2017, 11:23:43 AM
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: May 23, 2017, 12:38:39 PM by pthomas1172
For the last two days, I've only been getting dots when I render a scene?
- It's a very basic scene with just a cloud layer.
- When I create a new scene it renders normally / Fine
edit: I tried turning off the GI cache
Any thoughts?
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May 23, 2017, 11:35:56 AM
Do you wait out the dots? It's a prepass for the GI. After that it really starts rendering, so to say.
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May 23, 2017, 11:38:57 AM
Thanks for the reply,
Yes I do, that's what I thought at first, but I get a "FINISHED RENDERING" notification
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May 23, 2017, 12:36:17 PM
Look in your Render settings. In the GI settings.
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Ensure the settings for the cache file are as above.
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May 23, 2017, 12:39:02 PM
Thank you, tried that too.
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May 23, 2017, 04:05:32 PM
Creating a new Renderer and Camera?
It's as if it's calling the render complete at the end of the pre-pass. How long does it take to "finish?"
The cache setting is the prime suspect. I can't think of any others.
And this is specific to this file?
Just for a laugh (it would be something I'd try) gather the file and try rendering that one. Should make no difference but...
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May 23, 2017, 05:41:01 PM
If it is saying "Finished Rendering" and the dots remain on the screen, then the only explanation I can think of is that you have it set to Write a GI Cache File. I know you say you've already checked that, but I don't know what else would cause it. Even if your camera were located somewhere that would render all-black, you should still at least see the dots disappear and be replaced by black before it says "Finished". Do you have multiple render nodes in your scene?
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May 23, 2017, 07:00:03 PM
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: May 23, 2017, 07:01:37 PM by pthomas1172
(yeah, I'm def not writing cache to disk)
But, it stopped....
so I restarted for the fifth time this morning, But after I started
Saving Iteratively
, it stopped breaking? It hasn't broke since, makes no sense.
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May 24, 2017, 04:43:26 PM
Indeed, that doesn't make sense. Let us know if it starts happening again and try to determine exactly what you do that triggers it in that case.
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