I first want to say how exciting it has been to follow the progress of Crowd Render. This is the add-on I've been waiting for!
This is probably a newbie question, but when I render out an animation using Crowd Render, I get a series of blank .PNGs. I assume it's because I checked the box to use scene layers/passes. Later, I found .EXR files in different folders with different parts of the frame rendered. Am I supposed to combine those somehow?
I pressed the button below the scene layers/passes button to automatically add together the different parts of the frame, but it didn't appear to work.
Thanks,
Garrison
Hey! Just replied :) I had a look at the exr output, yeah its bad! Lets investigate further :D
I sent the email!
Hi Garrison, ok, yeah that is weird. Can I have one of the blank exrs to investigate? It may be corrupted, I need to know for sure so I can see what we can do to get this working for you :D
Pls feel free to e-mail it to our info at crowdrender dot com dot au address
James
Okay, it turns out I had to render one frame first, it created extra folders to save the .EXRs to, then the I pushed the button and it worked fine. But now when I render a still or an animation, only the local computer renders a piece of the frame. The two nodes I have connected say they're synced and when I push render on the local pc the CPUs on the nodes rev up like they're rendering, but they only save out blank .EXRs.
Thanks,
Garrison
Hi Garrison3D :) Thanks for posting, always a pleasure to meet more blender users. Ok, so if you pressed the button and nothing happened, that might indicate a problem we need to fix. It should have produced some new group nodes (one per render layer) with the name of each render layer visible on the node.
If those group nodes aren't there, then I need to fix that pronto. Would it be ok if you could perhaps create a bug report? We'd need to know the following:
First, see if you can write down the steps you took to make this happen, if the problem happens each time you follow those steps, then we can use that as instructions to reproduce it here in the lab
Start a bug report on our website, the link for that is here -> https://www.crowd-render.com/report-a-problem
Put into the description of the problem, what happened, and the list of steps you take to make it happen.
Attach your log files from the computer where you had the problem, you can easily do this by opening your user preferences in blender, going to addons and then searching for crowdrender. Open the Crowdrender tab and then press the "zip logs" button, choose where to save the file and its name. Then you can attach that file you saved to the bug report you started.
Press submit!
I'd be very grateful if you could write this report as it would give me an opportunity to fix the problem you've found :)
Kind Regards
James