Now, considering I wrote a tute on the damn thing, I would have thought that I would know how to use it. Not so - On my latest project every time I run my two pictures through the sequencer and render it causes blender to crash.
What I need is for someone to run these images through the sequencer for me to find out if it crashes on your version of Blender too. The pics are here:
Well, i tried 3 times, i even renamed the images and it still crashed Blender, and as far as i can remember its the first time something has crashed Blender on me. You must be doing something really haywire!!! hehe
Sorry dude, guess youāll have to hold off on worshiping me!!!
Hey again,
This was ticking me off, because it SHOULD work. So i tried again, and forgot to make it 1020x550, and it did work at 320x256, the default size for Blender renders.
So i tried 1019x549, but it still crashed it. But it must have to be something to do with the size that its rendering it at. Sorry i cant be of any more help dude!!!
I havenāt really taken the time to actually try this, but could you render in X and Yparts? You know, break the image down into smaller parts and it might render OK.
Hey M@d,
Did you ever figure out why those 2 images were causeing blender to crash??? Iāve since tried with other images and it seems to work alright with no errors, and im quite currious about this since i have plans to use this effect in the future.
hey, nice going olaf. I think it was because of the unusual resolution.
anyway, m@dcow, I have a small request. Could you update your tutorial or better yet send me the warp plugin via e-mail? ([email protected])
I canāt seem to be able to download it from the link you posted in your tutorialā¦
I actually use to have a similar problem. Whenever I tried to render an image larger than 800X600, Blender just crashesā¦even froze my whole system. Couldnt get out of it unless i press the reset button. I later fixed it when i reverted my video card drivers to a previous version.
I dont know if this might work for youā¦just recalling a similar incident.
BTW: How did you get that lense effect??? (That sort of fish-eye vision look).???
Sorry I took so long to reply to you, I had loads on my mind and I kinda forgot to check the replies to my question (dāoh!)
I have come to the conclusion that it must be something to do with the size the images are rendered at, but Im not entirely sure. You know that you said you had tried it with other images? Well, were they the same kind of resolution or are they smaller than this? Iād love to know either way.
The closest I could get to the right resolution was 800x400, but anything bigger causes Blender to crash.
Im guessing this effect will be ok for use in animations, as they are usually rendered at reasonable resolutions.
That is really simple, just use the panorama settings in the render window.
But there is a cool little trick I discovered whilst I was making this pic that I will try to explain to you. Considering that I wanted the end image to be 1020x550 in size I would usually do this to get a panoramic image:
Hit āPanoramaā in the renderbuttons
Since Y parts Donāt play a part in panoramas, I click Xparts x2 (just underneath the OSA buttons) and set the X render size to 510, since 510 times by 2 = 1020
The result looks like this:
If You look at the ground in the red circle you can see that the ground changes its angle abruptly, This usually looks pretty bad. The light blue line shows where the two images join.
So I tried this to improve things:
Instead of splitting the Xparts into 2, I thought it would look better in 6 parts. So I set the render size to 170, since 1020 divided by 6 is 170 and changed the Xparts to 6. I got this:
Very nice, but could you do me a favour and resequence those images with the warp value at 0.090? The warp effect is a little too strong on that image.
I guess maybe it would have helped if i had tried in the same resolution, it was just a 640x480, smart me 'eh??? hehe
Most likley it was just the resolution that crashed it, but as long as you can render it large enough to be animated and transferd to video or dvd i suppose its ok and not so much of a problemā¦ 'cept really large stills.