“particle_file_istream_factory : The input file *** does not exist.” I have been getting this error while rendering 4 PRT loaders, the particle count is 12 million in total. If I ok the error msg and start rendering again from that frame it continues on with out the error but then I will get the error again on some other frame? Any ideas?
Thanks
If you are seeing that, then the particle files you are rendering either don’t exist, or your connection to the location where they are is spotty. Are you trying to render particles that are being generated in the background by another process? Are you rendering particles from a network share that might be having connectivity issues?
They are on another internal drive. I will check if the drive is going to sleep or something.
New error msg, do you think this is because of the same issue? The files are on a external drive this time. When I press okay and start the render again it continues on.
Is it the same set of particle files that are causing this problem, or do you suspect that particle files are fine?
I’m familiar with the error messages, but I have no idea why you would be seeing them in general without any other reports (ie. what’s unique about your case?) Can you send me a sample PRT file that causes the problem? Either post it here, or open a support ticket at support.thinkboxsoftware.com/open.php
Its a different set from the same file. I think the files are ok as they render when I restart the job. What does the message mean though? There must be a reason for it?
I have attached a few frames of the PRT, at the last render it failed at 257 while rendering these two loaders together.
I’ve been able to reproduce the problem (where it says it didn’t get the expected number of particles) and it seems like its a bug in the threaded loading of partitions. I haven’t figure out how to fix it yet, but in the mean time you can probably avoid the problem by disabling threaded loading in the Preferences rollout of Krakatoa.
Krakatoa > Preferences > System Preferences > Multi-Threaded Partition LOADING
Can you let me know if you still get these errors even after turning off threaded loading?
Thanks! will try that and let you know.