#Renderer Hangs
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Hello,
I'm diligently working my way through the 3ds3 tutorials. While
playing around with tutorial #2 (adding and changing lights, materials etc.) I
rendered several scenes to the buffer when suddenly the renderer hung. I would
choose Render View, then choose the Camera viewport. The "Rendering In
Progress" box would appear, and just when it said "Preparing Mesh" it would
hang. I could press ESC and get back to the 3d Editor or anything else, but
anytime I tried to render, the same thing would happen.
Would this be a memory problem? I didn't think so since I'm just
rendering one fairly simple image and have rendered some of the more complex
scenes that come with 3ds with no problem. I'm running 3ds on a 486\66 with
12 MB of RAM.
Thanks,
HH
If your computer hasn't hung (evident by your discription of using the esc key
to get back to the 3D editor), it would seem that your rendering is taking a
bit more time than you had anticipated. Try again and let it go — it *should*
eventually render. Maybe there is some swapping going on during the "preparing
mesh" segment of the rendering process? This would definitely lengthen the
rendering process.
Just a thought…
-Alan Iglesias
Alan,
Thanks. I didn't think that was the case, since I was rendering the
same scene that had only minutes before taken just over two minutes to render.
Next time it happens I'll leave it alone for a while and see what happens.
HH
Yeah, well, if a scene actually renders in a couple minutes sometimes, then
doesn't, and the system isn't hung in some way, then this is an interesting
problem indeed!
Are you *sure* you aren't doing anything different (like, say, using RT shadows
for instance) when it takes longer?
-Alan
Alan,
I don't think so. I couldn't get it to do it today. Mysterious!
HH
Harley-
You're didn't by chance change the spotlight to a projector light did
you? Using a large bitmap with projector lights can really increase
the time of a rendering and the amount of memory used. Your computer
wasn't if you could press Esc – like Alan I. stated. Just go have a
cup of coffee or something and let it chug for a while. When it
finally does finish press ? and look at the size of the swap file (if
there is one) and this may convince you you need more than 12Mb of
RAM.