Savagemonkey
10-22-2006, 09:46 AM
First of all, this is more a rendering question, but since it falls in the category of rigging, I hope it's acceptable in this section.
I'm batch rendering an animation in Maya 6.5 using Mental Ray and it's taking a really long time to start up. The solvers involved are one hair system (a lot of follicles) and one cloth colver. I'm guessing that it has to run the simulations first and calculate the cache before it actually starts rendering. It's not necessarily a complex system, but the hair is tied down by a bandana object so it requires a collision oversample of like 6-8 to work correctly, so I know it would take a long time to calculate the cache. (Like a couple hours) Basically all I need is a confirmation on this. Is it just calculating the cache? I suppose if I leave it running all night I'll probably get my answer in the morning, but if someone could confirm it anyways that would be great.
And also a related question, if you're using 3D motion blur, does the same sort of process take place when you go to batch render? Does it actually have to calculate all the deformation geometry for the whole animation before it starts rendering each frame? I noticed that if I render single frames in Maya's render view with the motion blur on, it renders fairly quick but when I go to batch render it has a hangup similar to the scene that has the solvers running in it. Thanks for the help.
I'm batch rendering an animation in Maya 6.5 using Mental Ray and it's taking a really long time to start up. The solvers involved are one hair system (a lot of follicles) and one cloth colver. I'm guessing that it has to run the simulations first and calculate the cache before it actually starts rendering. It's not necessarily a complex system, but the hair is tied down by a bandana object so it requires a collision oversample of like 6-8 to work correctly, so I know it would take a long time to calculate the cache. (Like a couple hours) Basically all I need is a confirmation on this. Is it just calculating the cache? I suppose if I leave it running all night I'll probably get my answer in the morning, but if someone could confirm it anyways that would be great.
And also a related question, if you're using 3D motion blur, does the same sort of process take place when you go to batch render? Does it actually have to calculate all the deformation geometry for the whole animation before it starts rendering each frame? I noticed that if I render single frames in Maya's render view with the motion blur on, it renders fairly quick but when I go to batch render it has a hangup similar to the scene that has the solvers running in it. Thanks for the help.