Thanks Adam, I appreciate your response Yeah, I have done that a gazillion times and they still seem to disconnect when rendering. Though I have been jiggling with the materials quite a bit... However I'll try again as my experience seems to indicate that things magically begin to work *after* after posting on the list
I don't do much scripting so would like to ask if it is conceivable that one could create a script that would execute every frame and snap those connections together? Thanks again Jeff From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Adam Sale Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 1:37 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: ice crowds and rendering Hi Jeff.. This is a known issue for sure. I work around the issue by doing the following, I generally just get in and edit the texture projection in the render tree per image node on each actor copy. You have to point each image to the TextureProjection UV available to each ActorCopy.) On the Mesh Proxy you have to set the UV's to the correct projection in the Set Mesh Proxy compound in the ICE tree. Once I do that, I have no problems with textures showing on rendered sequences. Adam On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Jeff McFall <jeff.mcf...@sas.com<mailto:jeff.mcf...@sas.com>> wrote: I have been working with crowds and am excited about some of the results I am getting but have one nagging problem that I have not been able to overcome. That problem has to do with rendering and the fact that texture projections seem to become broken/disconnected from the material when the job distributed to a farm (we are using RR). When submitting jobs as a continuous sequence that begin on the first frame (frame 1) all seems to work fine. However when the job is spread across machines the textures are broken. As a quick overview of my setup I am using an random integer to drive a color switch in the render tree which basically selects the appropriate texture. As I said this all works fine as long as I render from the first frame of the sequence. Just a guess but I suspect this has something to do with the fact that the texture projections are created when the ice tree initializes on the first frame. Has anyone else experienced this and maybe know of a fix or workaround? I am wondering if I can tweak the scene or render software somehow to force the simulation to begin on frame 1 for each frame rendered? Seems I recall some scripts that may do this but I have been unable to track any down. Any suggestions much appreciated Thanks Jeff
