I don’t know if you guys make animation with blender.
but every time the scene start to be a little complex.
Blender CRASH during the animation rendering on one frame or another.
sometime it don’t even want to render some frame!!
it start to be fucking annoying when you have 10 hours render start your rendering before leaving work, you come back in the morning and you see that blender crash and render only 2 or 3 frames
so basically you almost lost your day cause you have to render again and you know it’s going to crash again later on.
so you have to stay around to check!
So what???
I think that it’s a major problem to fix.
but maybe not so easy…
You are not offering a lot of description about what your scene is?
Are you doing any scripting when the frame changes?
Are you using AddOns?
Have you stress tested your system? Perhaps you have a bad memory chip or a crappy power supply…? What version of Blender are you using?
Can you make a small enough scene to post here or on www.pasteall.org that demonstrates the crash? What render system are you using?
What OS?
How much memory do you have?
How much memory does your scene use?
Since i think it’s blender internal render the problem
I wanted to use first Luxrender, or 3Delight.
But the this is you cant make compositing really with luxrender and 3delight i don’t know how to manage the layer as well
since i work on production i have to be fast and efficient.
that why i always use blender internal render…but often i regret…i think i’ll take more time on luxender next time…
It is still hard to say without an example BLEND.
Try turning off all AddOns. Sometimes when I see crashes I look in the console to see what the error is. Often I see unrelated AddOns that are crashing because of context failure.
There is a render bug (it happens with all external render systems, not just BI), presently in 2.6.1 (has been there since the first release of 2.5 as far as I can tell) that causes the python user interface to crash after a render completes because the context is invalid. I don’t know how to pin it down so I have not reported it. I can’t believe developers would not notice this and investigate. But as they say… when Blender runs out of memory it crashes. So that is probably the case in your scene. Try deleting all objects from your scene, 1-by-1 to determine which one it is. Remove all modifiers. Your scene may take 50Mb to house internally, but with subdivision surface modifiers turned up you could use a lot more at render time.
Lux is not really worth investigating as far as speed is concerned. 3Delight would be a much better choice.
Do some very basic problem solving. Remove items then add back one at a time until you track down what is causing the issue. Without any useful info like a blend file, how are you expecting anyone to be able to help you ?
What file type are you rendering to ?
solving the problem item by item is good i do layer by layer actually then I can track.
The things is losing a lot of time, cause when you go evening then come back in the morning think you render is ok.
I always have to stay behind blender for the render BEFORE… renderfarm.fi
Anyway I’ve found a solution I did use Renderfarm.fi I just love it
It’s works perfectly
I even now a part of the volonteer team
Maybe macbook pro and Imac are not good to render animation…Still are ok but no animation…
For the renderer you can use luxrender like blender Internal direct lighting the render is more interesting and not so long and I think MORE STABLE but no layer T_T
3Delight is still a bit complex for me.
I have to make an still ad now…I’ll try them both again… and keep trying
Hm, stop rendering after 160 frames without error here on my 600$ hardware. Your file need about 500 MB free ram to render, if blender run out of memory it crash. Buy an old quad core, put 8 GB ram in it, install linux, use it for rendering and you are fine.
Btw. nice animation.
I took a look at your file. Did you ever think it might be that custom font? shifty chica 2.ttf? Also, you are rendering a final to AVI (most likely the cause). We all know Blender does not make movie files well. Blender only makes footage. Render to an image sequence. The AVI codec did not even show up on my system. So you have a custom freebie font and a custom freebie AVI codec and you are experiencing crashes. Hmm…Quite frankly I’m surprised that a renderfrarm would allow you to install a custom font and or codec on their system. Did you receive an image sequence from the render farm?
I am 60 frames into rendering the sequence and I have not experienced a crash. Try converting the font to a mesh and render to an image sequence.
@mib2berlin
Mib2berlin->I know i should think about get a real(not a labtop) computer for my render
and thanks
Atom->I received the image sequence from the farm it works great although I forget to pack a texture.
So I relauched it and now take ages…and my client just called me to say that they to change some stuf T_T
I need my a reall computer
I don’t know why bender was on AVI mode I NEVER use it, always PNG… cause if cash, if i want to stop, or anything… always PNG
And yes I did change the fonts into a real mesh
And now the client want to put the text in khmer just under T_T I have to rerender all the end…
Thanks a lot to use you computeur to render guy A LOT
