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Maya Batch Render with displacement Problem

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#1

Hey Guys,

Thanks in advance for any help. I’ve searched here already for the solution to my problem and could not find it. My problem is when rendering a batch animation out of maya/mental ray with a displacement map the render is just re-rendering the first frame over and over. So I end up with a six hundred frame still shot. I found a post up here that mentioned that they had this problem and it was a memory issue. The only reason that perplexes me is that my computer is a new machine with vista 64 bit and 8 gigs of ram. So i would think that should not be a problem unless I’m going about the process wrong. If anyone else has run into this problem and found a solution I would greatly appriciate some insight. Thanks again,

Tanner J.

#2

Through trial and error, I’ve found that it’s not the displacement map causing the problem. Its the approx. editor. I simply mesh/smoothed my model and ran the displacement map over this smoothed geo and I got the results I was looking for. From reading through the forums I have found that Maya 2008 is using a new approx. subdivide script so I’m not sure if this is a bug from that. The other thing is I have eliminated my home computer from the equation because I also did a test render at work on a Mac G5 (2 gig Ram) and had the same results with only rendering the first frame multiple times.