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lions
11-19-2002, 07:19 PM
hi,anybody tried to render in layers with mental ray 1.5?
every time I try to render,there's always the same message:
cannot render more than 10000 photons" and the batch render stops after frame one.....after reducing the number of photons there's always the same message,so I suppose it's a bug.
Same problem with render passes,there's no color layer,nor diffusse,nor specular....nothing,but the frames are there.
Any idea? the scene is ok,because a normal render without layers looks great,but I really need those damn layers.
Thanks

Array
11-20-2002, 07:30 AM
are you using caustics? if so, make sure your caustic emmitting objects have their reflection color set to anything but black. this should fix your problem.

lions
11-20-2002, 08:43 AM
hi friend,no,i'm not using caustics.I'm using global illumination and final gather,with raytraced shadows.
regards

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