Never a dull moment in MR land: 'FATAL: mental ray has encountered a fatal error condition...'

[Tim Crowson]

Title: Signature

I'm rendering a frame locally, which renders fine as long as XSI is front and center. But on occasion, if I have gmail up and am checking messages while rendering in the background, I'll get the following error... 'FATAL: mental ray has encountered a fatal error condition. It has been disabled for the rest of this XSI session. Please save your work and contact Softimage support' To which I must add... 'They were forced to eat Robin's minstrels, and there was great rejoicing... yay....' Any idea why this might happen? It's happened twice in the last 24 hours, and the only common condition seems to be that I've got Firefox up on top checking my email. And don't tell me switch to Arnold. We already know that. --   Tim Crowson Lead CG Artist Magnetic Dreams Animation Studio, Inc. 2525 Lebanon Pike, Building C. Nashville, TN 37214 Ph  615.885.6801 | Fax  615.889.4768 | www.magneticdreams.com tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com