New Build (305)

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

Mostly more work on e4.  There were some reports of trace instability with the previous build.  Let me know if this build seems stable.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

I think so.

Mario Schipflinger said:

a question to build 305: is self-illuminating included?

[Garret Diduck]

Adding caustics converges pretty quickly also. This is only 2 mins on my very old Socket 775 computer.

 

Something you can't tell easily by the picture that you can see while it's rendering is the caustic effects at the 2 o'clock position on the wall (further out than the bright spot).

 

 

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

e4 or e1?

[Garret Diduck]

e4

Roy Hirshkowitz said:

e4 or e1?

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

Looks great.  Like I said, I'm considering making Reflective Caustics an option-- so you'd need to turn them on to get this result.  These are a source of a lot of noise for the majority of renderings.  Definitely worth it for this one.

[Garret Diduck]

I think I found the method to repeat the crash in my models. 

 

I switch to e4, save the file & close. Open the file and try rendering in e1 and it will crash 100% of the time. If I open the file and switch to e4, it will render without crashing. 

Once the file is saved after changing to e4, I can never render it in e1 again without it crashing. 

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

Tried it with the fc drawing you sent.  Works fine here-- no crash.  If you have time, try documenting your procedure exactly in case I'm doing something slightly different.

Garret Diduck said:

I think I found the method to repeat the crash in my models. 

 

I switch to e4, save the file & close. Open the file and try rendering in e1 and it will crash 100% of the time. If I open the file and switch to e4, it will render without crashing. 

Once the file is saved after changing to e4, I can never render it in e1 again without it crashing. 

[Garret Diduck]

The attached file will no longer render with e1 (305) as it will crash on my machine 100% of the time. If I switch to e4, it renders just fine.

If I install 304, it will render in e1. Then I can go back to 305 and it will render in e1. 

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

Found it-- thanks (sneaky little thing.)  I'll update soon.

Garret Diduck said:

The attached file will no longer render with e1 (305) as it will crash on my machine 100% of the time. If I switch to e4, it renders just fine.

If I install 304, it will render in e1. Then I can go back to 305 and it will render in e1. 

[Garret Diduck]

Good news. Will the update fix the files that won't render?

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

Yep.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

Marco-- use the Support->Upload option to upload a large file to me.

marco prina said:

Hi Roy, nXt goes crash every time i click render in walkabout. How can i upload the model? it's 17Mb