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Chaos Corona for Cinema 4D => [C4D] General Discussion => Topic started by: moebius on 2015-02-11, 12:18:55

Title: Animation
Post by: moebius on 2015-02-11, 12:18:55
Does anyone know a workaround for the animation rendering bug? I can't render more than two frames... :-(
Title: Re: Animation
Post by: borisquezadaa on 2015-02-11, 13:58:01
Could you be more specific?... What animation bug?.
The only one i heard off is a Realflow phoenix related one of frames not updating and it has a solution here on thye forums using some scripting.
Title: Re: Animation
Post by: moebius on 2015-02-11, 14:33:38
I can't render more than two frames als C4D crashes. The Bug is known by the maker of Corona... Maybe someone knows a workaround in C4D...?
Someone told me to copy all of the objects in a new file: Does not help for me.
Title: Re: Animation
Post by: Tanuki on 2015-02-11, 22:26:40
I'm still trying to figure out what causes the crashes too. sometimes it all renders out fine, but more often it crashes after 1-3 frames. I've read it's caused by animating the focal distance, but it seems that's not the only cause. Currently I just restart C4D and try it again until I get it to work. I've had most success using the render queue rather than the picture viewer but it may just be coincidence...

In fact an animation that crashed last night after 1 frame, I re-opening and started re-rendering again today. Without making any changes whatsoever to the file it seems to be rendering out without any issues, so I guess maybe there's no real "cause"
Title: Re: Animation
Post by: moebius on 2015-02-12, 09:29:28
I didn't use the focus lengh..
also, it does not work by rendering using the commandline.
Title: Re: Animation
Post by: Tanuki on 2015-02-12, 22:35:43
hmm. All I can say is keep trying. After numerous crashes (often after only 1 frame), I managed to get 850 frames out overnight without a hitch.
Title: Re: Animation
Post by: mp5gosu on 2015-02-13, 09:47:52
This bug is known for a long time now. Let them just start to develop Corona for C4D. (There's just an Alpha - so not something completeley fluid to expect yet)
https://corona-renderer.com/bugs/view.php?id=560
Title: Re: Animation - Workaround!
Post by: studio-fabian on 2015-03-03, 00:55:51
I just found a workaround for this problem. It is not too elegant, but it will work until this is fixed. The main idea is that one frame always renders safely. So you could spend all day rendering an animation one frame after the other. Not much fun. So I wrote a little plug-in and a script doing exactly that for you. Download links and instructions can be found here:

http://www.studio-fabian.de/corona-render-for-cinema-4d-fix-for-the-alpha-animation-crash/ (http://www.studio-fabian.de/corona-render-for-cinema-4d-fix-for-the-alpha-animation-crash/)
Title: Re: Animation
Post by: moebius on 2015-03-04, 17:46:43
It works! :-) Great!

btw, I love CallOnActivation.
Title: Re: Animation
Post by: studio-fabian on 2015-03-04, 22:26:01
Cool, I'm glad it works for you! I'm rendering quite a bit myself since I found the hack. And good to hear you like CallOnActivation.

Best
-
Fabian
Title: Re: Animation
Post by: moebius on 2015-03-05, 10:53:36
I tried it over night for 250 frames and C4D was shotdown in the morning. At frame 170. Maybe because I tried to render a camera flight and C4D stopped when too much trees came in to the frame...
Title: Re: Animation
Post by: moebius on 2015-03-05, 13:17:31
and it's flickering :-(