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Title: Weird error?
Post by: archonforest on November 28, 2014, 11:48:09 AM
Something weird happened with my last render. I wanted to see my iceland render in higher quality so i moved up the quality to 1 and AA to 10. (I did not changed anything else) The end result was a very grainy pixelated picture. Also render time went 6x longer than the usual. This happened with me already with another render. Does anybody knows what it can be?
Title: Re: Weird error?
Post by: choronr on November 28, 2014, 12:36:11 PM
As a rule, I never take quality up higher than 1 and AA up higher than 0.7. I think your AA setting is much to high. Of course wait and see what others have to say about this.
Title: Re: Weird error?
Post by: archonforest on November 28, 2014, 01:41:17 PM
Quote from: choronr on November 28, 2014, 12:36:11 PM
As a rule, I never take quality up higher than 1 and AA up higher than 0.7. I think your AA setting is much to high. Of course wait and see what others have to say about this.
Okay thx for the answer :)
Title: Re: Weird error?
Post by: Kadri on November 28, 2014, 02:35:57 PM
That shouldn't happen in theory.Any TGD to share to test it? A basic one with the error should be enough.
Title: Re: Weird error?
Post by: archonforest on November 28, 2014, 02:47:09 PM
Quote from: Kadri on November 28, 2014, 02:35:57 PM
That shouldn't happen in theory.Any TGD to share to test it? A basic one with the error should be enough.
I will do another test before as the error vanished when I went back to quality 0.8 and AA9. I will re render tonight and if wrong again I will upload the .tgd. Thx Kadri :)
Title: Re: Weird error?
Post by: Kadri on November 28, 2014, 02:51:09 PM
:)
Title: Re: Weird error?
Post by: Hannes on November 28, 2014, 04:39:31 PM
A quality of 1 and AA of 10 shouldn't cause any problems. It's quite high, but still not over the top.
Title: Re: Weird error?
Post by: Oshyan on November 28, 2014, 11:34:39 PM
I agree with Hannes. Did you save the image? Can you post it, or a crop of it? Is it possible that you enabled Write to GI Cache?

- Oshyan
Title: Re: Weird error?
Post by: archonforest on November 29, 2014, 11:43:51 AM
Quote from: Oshyan on November 28, 2014, 11:34:39 PM
I agree with Hannes. Did you save the image? Can you post it, or a crop of it? Is it possible that you enabled Write to GI Cache?

- Oshyan
ehhh....i didn't save the output as i got pissed that 7 hrs of rendering time went down on the toilet... :D
Last night I had no time to try but will do tonight. Hope the error comes again so we can see what happened as it is the second time that a render went bananas... ???
Title: Re: Weird error?
Post by: Kadri on November 29, 2014, 02:20:05 PM

You probably have put the wrong numbers only.
1 instead of 10 or 0.1 instead of 1 for example. I did this in the past.
Title: Re: Weird error?
Post by: archonforest on November 29, 2014, 02:27:36 PM
Quote from: Kadri on November 29, 2014, 02:20:05 PM

You probably have put the wrong numbers only.
1 instead of 10 or 0.1 instead of 1 for example. I did this in the past.
hmmm i have his in my mind since a day also. I might set AA to 1 instead of 10 but this can produce a pxelated picture? hmmm not sure...and render time went from 45 min up to 6 hrs...
Title: Re: Weird error?
Post by: Kadri on November 30, 2014, 01:29:35 AM

Up going render times makes it look like it was another problem.
Title: Re: Weird error?
Post by: archonforest on November 30, 2014, 10:08:16 AM
Quote from: Kadri on November 30, 2014, 01:29:35 AM

Up going render times makes it look like it was another problem.

Rendered again 3000x2000 with quality of 1 and AA of 11 and it was okay. I was not able to create the same effect...
Well, thanks for the ideas folks. Probably it was a glitch in the system...
Title: Re: Weird error?
Post by: Oshyan on November 30, 2014, 05:19:04 PM
Well, if it happens again be sure to save both the image and the TGD.

- Oshyan
Title: Re: Weird error?
Post by: archonforest on December 01, 2014, 10:58:01 AM
Quote from: Oshyan on November 30, 2014, 05:19:04 PM
Well, if it happens again be sure to save both the image and the TGD.

- Oshyan
Will do for sure :)