FP 7 / Vray 5 - Rendergin stuck on Updating instances of forest object

[GF1991]

Hi guys,
so today, out of the blue, the forect pack object i had in the scene stopped rendergin.
I can restart computer, turn on off, reinstal vray/FP7Beta - anything and it still doesnt render and completely freezes max and there is no core /RAM/network activity too..please see attachment.
Doesnt return any error upon force closing max.
Whne i hide FP objects it renders fine.
When i go to scene 5 saves back it still doesnt work.
Does aynone have any clue what could be wrong there?
I am out of ideas..cant be that all my saves are all of the sudden FP corrupted??? Wondergin why even reinstalling doesnt work.
Thanks for suggestions
Martin

[GF1991]

oh and deleting maxes ENU doesnt help either.

[Rokas]

Would You please send us the scene to check it.

[GF1991]

Sent, thanks!

[leo.surrealismo]

did you find anything on this problem?

[GF1991]

Oh I am sorry i forgot to reply as i was too busy catching the deadline ans still am )

Anyway, i was advised to tick off the collisions which were for some reason on by default and then i lowered the threshold to make the grass denser.
And it helped.

Strangely it started erroring like that by itself and i checked the scene that rendered well and the collisions were checked but few saves after that it stopped rendering....so really unsure what happened there.

Thanks a lot to the support team advice
m

[leo.surrealismo]

I am on the same situation, but for the rush, I have to revert back to fp6 and it is rendering now.    I am going to test it again to see if that solution works for me
thanks!

[GF1991]

yeah something is wrong ther eand i so much hope its not gonna happen again otherwise i am screwed cos i really rely on the global color tweaks of scatter objects due to the tim econstraints:)

[Rokas]

yeah something is wrong ther eand i so much hope its not gonna happen again otherwise i am screwed cos i really rely on the global color tweaks of scatter objects due to the tim econstraints:)

Hi. I am sorry to hear You got any issues. Only if reported we can fix them. Would You please send Your scene file to troubleshoot it.

[GF1991]

looks like the collisions in beta are extremely sensitive to the forest obejcts density.
has anything changed in that regard from 6 to 7???
ïts quite tricky cos the display doenst display all the items so one never knows how thick the forest object actually is.

[Rokas]

looks like the collisions in beta are extremely sensitive to the forest obejcts density.
has anything changed in that regard from 6 to 7???
ïts quite tricky cos the display doenst display all the items so one never knows how thick the forest object actually is.

Yes collisions has been modified. There was a bug that was fixed in FP 7.
Now it should work more consistently. You can increase display items, or set it to 0 to make it unlimited (be careful when using in large distribtions).

[GF1991]

I have everything set neatly but i am gettgin crashes to desktop everytime i stop IPR render in Vray.
I am packing up the scene and sending over. Tried different Vray versions, looks like its related to FP object cos that was the last one added.
Cheers
M
warning...massive file

[FC1888]

When you see other mentioning that they really hope this gets fixed and are replying on it for time critical work, you have to ask, why would anyone install a beta, when everyone knows that doing so, can and often does bring with it, unexpected problems. Yes it's a good thing that some are wiling to give a beta release a try and help find problems, many companies rely on it, but if you need it to be stable and your work replies on it, I would suggest not using a beta for time critical work

[Rokas]

I just wanted to express my gratitude to everyone who installed beta, and took their time to report the issues.

[GF1991]

happy to help!