Max 5 crashes after render?!!

[BrandonD]

Neil's got a good little essay about solving these kinds of problems...

http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_education/file_crashing/file_crashing.htm

[igor popovic]

wow, nice..
so i read his ideas, and i was surprised that i never thought of going step by step until i found out what was wrong with my scene...
anyways, i created a simple scene which rendered w/o problems. and then i added raytrace into the 'reflection' map for the object in my scene, which was a simple plane, and guess what, my max crashed! so now i gotta figure out why it crashes whenever i have a ratracable object in my scene.!

so if anyone has an opinion on that, i'd be even more greatful...but big thanks to you Brandon!!

igor

[igor popovic]

I stopped using any raytracing materials in my scenes, and my rendering worked fine for a few hours, but now the program started crashing again. I'm trying to figure out what the problem is this time. Any more ideas from anyone??

[megaflaizer]

do you have shag :hair in the scene? shag hair, as i painfully found out in a situation similar to yours, crashes the renderer as it doesnt play well with the raytracer.

anyways, i also found that digipserve was causing some issues for me with this particular situation.

if not, it still soudns like aplug in collision.

[igor popovic]

well the thing is that i do have shag fur program/plug-ins installed but i didn't use it in this scene, so i dont think it is causing the crashes currently, but now that you mention shag fur, i remember that these crashes started shortly after i installed it.

Either way, i am reinstalling my max, so hopefully, there wont be any more crashing, besides the microsoft's windows OS, but thats a different story.:rolleyes: :annoyed:

anyway, thanks for your opinion!

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