Hi!
We have struggled for some time with an issue we can’t seem to get our head around. We have recently moved from backburner to deadline but our Render elements for the most part comes out as unreadable. There is data in them (because of the file size) but our compositing software can’t “parse” the file. The beauty file itself is not an issue. We run the lastest version and submit our jobs through RPmanager. Please assist.
daniel
I have attached one of the corrupt files. I don’t know if youcan use that in some way.
main_Velocity_0000.zip (106 KB)
HI Daniel, this is a common issue when you change filetypes in 3dsmax, when you set up your render elements your main output was set to a TGA file, you changed your main output to an EXR file and the render element doesn’t update internally although the extension will say exr, max will save this out as a TGA file with an .exr extension. If you try to load in Photoshop it will give you an error, if you load it with IrfanView it will tell you that the file extension is wrong. You can rescue your files by batch renaming the filetypes to TGA or to stop this issue happening full stop, have a look at this post where I diagnosed the problem and built a work-around.
This will be included in the next deadline release.
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=7651&p=31670#p31670
Dave
Dave - Just a quick thanks on this. You saved me a very long re render with that info.