Batch renderer has stopped working! (Problem with Caustics)

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on October 11, 2010 at 3:09pm

I am taking a quick look right now (I am not in the office, but I will give it a try)

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on October 11, 2010 at 3:49pm

The error is somewhere is the caustics calculations.

For now remove caustics from the transparent materials.

I'll see if Roy (the engine developer) can offer some help.

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on October 11, 2010 at 5:44pm

Roy reports that Caustics has broken in the Packet Tracer (standard) rendering engine. We will fix it in a few days, For now you cannot use it except with the Path Tracer.
(The path tracer makes nice caustics, but will take a long time to render.)

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on October 11, 2010 at 9:59pm

If you use the path tracer, the caustics will work - but it may take considerable longer to get a rendering without speckles.

Here is the fish tank model rendered with the Path Tracer rendering option: (3 HRS and about 400 passes)

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Permalink Reply by fred henaux on October 12, 2010 at 6:52am

Hi Al,

Thank you for looking into this.

Would you be able to let me know once you have found the solution?

Thanks again.

Fred

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on October 12, 2010 at 7:28am

I will add a posting here.

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on October 15, 2010 at 2:43pm

We fixed the problem with caustics.

Go ahead and download the latest version from: Downloads

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on October 15, 2010 at 2:45pm

We just posted a new version to download, JJ15, with the fix for this.

You can download the latest version at:

http://www.renderplus.com/php/download_links.php

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