Interruption while rendering an animation

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Interruption while rendering an animation

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Hello,

this my current situation.
I'd like to do an animation with a little less than 300 frames.
The animation is a camera path only. So the observer is moving a little and the observed empty object is following a path.

After starting the animation it runs a certain period of time and generates result images like it should.
Somewhere in the middle of the process it stops at 100% of an rendering (50 samples in this case) and doesn't write any image anymore.
Also it doesn't continue rendering and remains at 100% status. This happens somehow randomly and could be after 5 successful frames as well as 100 successful frames.

Unfortunatly I can't present any sample file due to restrictive geometry. If really necessary I could try to create something that represents the issue, but maybe this description is enough on a first shot.

Thanks in advance.
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Re: Interruption while rendering an animation

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Hm, maybe it is related to this issue? https://github.com/LuxCoreRender/LuxCor ... -374547898

Which renderengine and halt conditions are you using?
Are you using tiled path?

You could try to reproduce the issue with a very simple scene (cube on a plane) and see if it also happens there.
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Re: Interruption while rendering an animation

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Hi,

I made this sample file:
untitled.blend
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It shows the described error very well.
The render settings within are identical with the config I was using in my model.

On my first shot - the render stopped after finishing frame 3 - no result image was written.
The missing HDRI could be downloaded there:
http://shtlab.blogspot.de/2009/08/hdri- ... -free.html

Hope you'll find the root cause.
Thank you-
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Re: Interruption while rendering an animation

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B.Y.O.B. wrote: Wed Mar 28, 2018 4:53 pm Hm, maybe it is related to this issue? https://github.com/LuxCoreRender/LuxCor ... -374547898

Which renderengine and halt conditions are you using?
Are you using tiled path?

You could try to reproduce the issue with a very simple scene (cube on a plane) and see if it also happens there.
Thats a windows only problem: i rendered 300 frames on linux and osx from your testblend + pointed hdri without problems.

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jensverwiebe wrote: Fri Mar 30, 2018 9:28 am i rendered 300 frames on linux and osx from your testblend + pointed hdri without problems.
Did you use the latest sources?
I suspect that this bug was fixed since the last alpha release (in the issue I linked above).
So it is probably only reproducible with the last release.

lighting_freak, can you test again on monday when we release the beta1?
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Re: Interruption while rendering an animation

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B.Y.O.B. wrote: Fri Mar 30, 2018 10:37 am
jensverwiebe wrote: Fri Mar 30, 2018 9:28 am i rendered 300 frames on linux and osx from your testblend + pointed hdri without problems.
Did you use the latest sources?
I suspect that this bug was fixed since the last alpha release (in the issue I linked above).
So it is probably only reproducible with the last release.

lighting_freak, can you test again on monday when we release the beta1?
Jep, always on latest src. Did not test alpha7.
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On my Linux with latest sources it also ran through fine.
But as I said, I doubt it has anything to do with Windows/Linux.
In the next release it should be fixed.
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Re: Interruption while rendering an animation

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B.Y.O.B. wrote: Fri Mar 30, 2018 10:50 am On my Linux with latest sources it also ran through fine.
But as I said, I doubt it has anything to do with Windows/Linux.
In the next release it should be fixed.
Hard to say without proof. Why not throwing him an actual pyluxcore.dll ?
So its sure the beta is fine on win .
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Re: Interruption while rendering an animation

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Hi,

well, at the moment I'm on alpha 7.
OK, let's test on first beta as soon as it is available.

Thanks.
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Re: Interruption while rendering an animation

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jensverwiebe wrote: Fri Mar 30, 2018 10:54 am Hard to say without proof.
Well before the fix I had the same bug (halt condition failing) on Linux.
Sure I did not test super watertight but currently I simply can't do this.
jensverwiebe wrote: Fri Mar 30, 2018 10:54 am Why not throwing him an actual pyluxcore.dll ?
I would do that if I could compile on Windows: https://github.com/LuxCoreRender/Window ... e/issues/1
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