Stripe rendering Sun Glow issue (spherical cam)

[pixelsmack]

I've tried caching, I've tried turning off all other GLOWS. For some reason the Sun Glow gets stuck at a lower resolution. Any ideas?

[Kevin Kipper]

Are the Render bucket controls still at their default values of 256 x 256 for Max bucket size and Allow auto reduction checked?  What is the Ray detail region drop down set to?

[Matt]

Is this a single render with a spherical camera, or multiple images stitched together? If it's multiple images stitched together, it looks like it's not reading the same cache file for every image. Check that there is only 1 cache file in the folder. That cache file should have been generated with a single render with a spherical camera. If you're using some automated tiling system then it might be creating a separate cache for each tile, which won't work.

Another possibility is there might be a cloud layer with "Acceleration Cache", but this is an older feature that's been removed from recent versions because of problems like this.

[pixelsmack]

Thank you for replies.

This issue only shows when doing tile rendering. I tried using cache and it didn't help. The tiles actually render clean. There's 16 of them in that image. When I built the cache I built it using single tile as well.

The first reply to this post might be on to something. I did not alter bucket sizes. I tried ray settings of both "what cam sees" and "360 optimized" same bad result.

The fact that the sun glow seems to stop as a perfect rectangle makes me suspect a bucket issue as first reply said? Weird it would only affect Sun Glow.

I know this is a worst case scenerio type image. 360 and tile rendered. Still trying to learn all this.

[Matt]

I'm not aware of any tiling issues that can't be solved with the right settings, so we should be able to fix this if we can look at the project. Would you be willing to send to the file to us? You can email support@planetside.co.uk