Corona 12 - Recommended Scripts to avoid crashing

[Alex Abarca]

I get about 20+ crashes a day. With errors all over the place.

I get one where the screen is black and it doesn't do anything. And another weird error that says internal error.

[maru]

Hi Alex, I have just started a support ticket #310195 for you. You should receive an email notification.

[Alex Abarca]

Thanks! I’ve submitted a support ticket and shared several dump files. Hopefully, these can help you pinpoint the crash module. My file is quite large, with assets from my personal library, Chaos, AXYZ Anima, and Poliigon, so it’s pretty massive. But If it needs to be transferred I can do that.

To work around the issue, I constantly use Prune, Forensic, and merge the objects into a new scene, which temporarily fixes it. However, the problem returns. Almost every time I start an Interactive Render (IR), it crashes; then I reopen the file and try again, and it might work.

I suggest for the Corona Team to create a public poll in this forum to gather basic feedback. Questions could include:
Is Corona generally stable?
Does it often crash during rendering?
Is it slow when connecting Corona materials in the Slate Material Editor?

This would help gather valuable insights to incorporate in the next update.

[Tom]

I suggest for the Corona Team to create a public poll in this forum to gather basic feedback. Questions could include:
Is Corona generally stable?
Does it often crash during rendering?
Is it slow when connecting Corona materials in the Slate Material Editor?

This would help gather valuable insights to incorporate in the next update.

That's a great idea.

[maru]

Thanks! I’ve submitted a support ticket and shared several dump files. Hopefully, these can help you pinpoint the crash module. My file is quite large, with assets from my personal library, Chaos, AXYZ Anima, and Poliigon, so it’s pretty massive. But If it needs to be transferred I can do that.

To work around the issue, I constantly use Prune, Forensic, and merge the objects into a new scene, which temporarily fixes it. However, the problem returns. Almost every time I start an Interactive Render (IR), it crashes; then I reopen the file and try again, and it might work.

Thank you, I was able to find the ticket #308975. I will make sure it is handled correctly.

I suggest for the Corona Team to create a public poll in this forum to gather basic feedback. Questions could include:
Is Corona generally stable?
Does it often crash during rendering?
Is it slow when connecting Corona materials in the Slate Material Editor?

This would help gather valuable insights to incorporate in the next update.

I understand this idea, but the best anyone experiencing such issues can do is send a new support ticket at https://support.chaos.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

[TomG]

As maru says, the poll would not be useful - we'd have to follow up with every person who voted on every issue, and ask them to submit a ticket so that we had information like which Corona version, which DCC and which version, which OS, is it scene specific, can they send in the sample scene, can they share any error messages they get, and so on. So we can just skip the middle part (the poll) and go straight to having tickets raised for any issue anyone is experiencing, where we'll have all the details needed to actually take action, and we'll still have the "overall count of how many times an issue is reported" too :)

[CharlyRT]

Thanks, but sometimes I cant. I got 2 crashes today and it gets completely stuck, the only way to get out is CTRL ALT DEL. This happens when IR.
Actually almost every time It crashes on the first try of IR, then I close it and try again and sometimes it works. IR usually will cause me crash and I have a beefy machine, 256 RAM, RTX 4090.

Recently Im having lots of crashes, but 3ds Max get stuck after saving an autoback and it doesnt create any MiniDumps, I have noticed that everything comes very unstable when using IR, if I dont use it I can work very smoothly, well, there are times when changing some parameter in materials or lights that takes too long, but no crash, as soon as I start using IR I have crashes with everything, moving objects, editing materials and geometry, undo operations, etc, its not that im using it while doing these operations, I learned my lesson but even with no IR, 3ds Max crash.

[plasticmonster81]

So im not the only one, using Max 2022, corona 12 and I get soooo many material editor crashes. Resetting mat editor, crash. Scrolling through mat editor, crash. Yesterday I picked a simple corona mat from an object, crash. Resetting ENU wont fix it. Reinstalling Corona doesn`t fix it. Im starting to think there`s a big compatibility bug with the default physical material and or built in Arnold. Most times mat edit crashes on an empty scene (but Corona is default renderer always)
So I am stumped. Hope they fix this in R13 because frankly it`s a mess and I have autosave on for every 5 minutes (which is annoying on 2-3 gb scenes) hope someone comes up with a solution. Cheers

[XENTINO]

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[TomG]

For a reminder with anyone experiencing crashes, be sure to send in a ticket (https://support.chaos.com/requests/new ), with the minidump, details of Corona version and DCC version and OS version, what you were doing before the crash, preferably the scene where the crash happened, any error messages received, and any other information that may be relevant. This is the only way we can take a look at what is happening and resolve it, so I am hoping no-one is just posting "And me!" here without having a ticket sent in so that we can help you all. Thanks!