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duderender
10-09-2003, 08:33 AM
OMG, the simplest scene in the world and it crashes on .
F9.

I wanted to do some testing tonight and this scene crashes on render. I can set to quickshade or wireframe but if I set it to Realistic, Lightwave crashes.

Could someone have a look?

zip file of scene (http://members.shaw.ca/duderender/crash_lw/crash_lw.zip)
Ayreon
10-09-2003, 08:40 AM
That's really strange, it keeps crashing here to. I'm going to recreate the scene on my own system and see what happens.

Ayreon
duderender
10-09-2003, 08:41 AM
It was the material for the cube, since it had transparency.

I did not have ray trace transparency ticked on. If left unticked, LW crashes.

Perhaps I'll send this into tech support.
Ayreon
10-09-2003, 08:46 AM
oke, I messed around with your scene a bit more and go it to render. Under renderoptions just turn on raytracing for shadows, if you turn that option on, everything is fine. I just don't know why lightwave crashes when it's not turned on:surprised


Ayreon
duderender
10-09-2003, 08:49 AM
just turn on raytracing for shadows

haha :applause:

I turned on transparency. So basically, a raytracing option has to be on .

thanks for such prompt attention Ayreon.
colkai
10-10-2003, 04:23 PM
The reason is simple....once you know ;)

I see you are using "surface thickness" - for this to work you MUST have raytrace transparency on. It may not crash if shadows is on, but I think it actually needs the transparency.

It's a known thing, was a few threads about it on the Newtek board. It is also mentioned in the simple tutorial on it's use by Kevman3D from Oz in the 'Tips & tricks' "Skin Thickness Quick tips" thread.
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