Animation

[Peter Milner]

I'm experimenting with some animation and keep getting annoying flickering.

I presume this is caused by the auto exposure, but I can't turn it off.

Every time I un-tick the box, it turns itself back on.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

Which engine and which type of animation (path-based or 3d slide show) ?

When you get a chance, send an example of the flickering.  You can use [e-mail]-- you may need to send a link if the file is large.

[Peter Milner]

Hi Roy,

It was the Path Tracer engine and a path based animation.

I'll send you the file.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

Exposure instability is as good bet here.  

If you have a chance to run this again, try the hybrid engine and the standard engine.  I'll have Rich check to make sure the auto-exposure checkbox is working even if it doesn't appear to be persistent.  I suspect it is, and that there is something else causing the instability.  We haven't had very many people attempt animations using the Path Tracer yet.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

Actually-- hold off on trying the other engines.  I may have found an obvious problem.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

It may be a week or so until I can get Render Plus to build a new version for you to test.

[Peter Milner]

No problem.

Thanks for looking into it.

[Rich Hart]

We uploaded a new version with a fix for the auto-exposure checkbox which was not working correctly.

Here is a link to the 64 bit install:

http://www.renderplus.com/downloads/nXtRender/arnxt64_0355-PH08.exe

Please try that.

Thanks,

Rich