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RailClone => RailClone Pro (*) => Topic started by: Adam86 on April 17, 2018, 02:47:26 PM

Title: UNHANDLED EXCEPTION ERROR - BUG WITH RC?
Post by: Adam86 on April 17, 2018, 02:47:26 PM
OK I know it sounds like it's a Vray issue but hear me out...

I have been building several houses over the past few weeks, each house is in it's own file built up from mesh and railclones objects and then grouped. I have a masterfile which just contains lighting and cameras, then I am Xref'in all the house types into the master file, I am assigning dummy objects to the xref's so I can bring in for example housetype 1, several times, each one assigned to it's own dummy.

I was almost finished bringing in all the house models when i went to give it a render, I received the error 'Unhanded Exception when instancing'. I then went into bug hunting mode, switching all xref's off, and going through each file making sure they were all perfect with no problems. I then switched them on one by one to see if it was a file specific causing the problem. again I got to about 60% through when I started getting inconsistencies with the error, sometime it would render without the error and sometimes it would flat out refuse to render. After I had tried everything else I decided to try removing ALL Railclone generators and converting them to mesh......irritatingly this fixed the problem and the entire render completed at full resolution within minutes.....

I do not understand why this is being caused, is it because of Railclone or could it be another factor? it's worth mentoning I was receiving these errors before i upgraded RC to the beta, so it's in both Beta and current versions. I am using 2018 3dMax, with Vray 3.60.0 4 - I dont think my rig is to blame as it has 128GB Ram with 44 thread 3.3GHZ 2x CPU's.
Title: Re: UNHANDLED EXCEPTION ERROR - BUG WITH RC?
Post by: Rokas on April 17, 2018, 03:25:31 PM
Have You tried to disable instancing engine in RC
(https://i.imgur.com/4UPyeAp.png)

Maybe it would help in this case?
Title: Re: UNHANDLED EXCEPTION ERROR - BUG WITH RC?
Post by: Adam86 on April 17, 2018, 04:20:54 PM
Rokas, can you explain please? I have removed all RC objects and it renders, does the 'disable instancing engine' not just turn off RC anyway?
Title: Re: UNHANDLED EXCEPTION ERROR - BUG WITH RC?
Post by: Rokas on April 17, 2018, 04:29:02 PM
When instancing is not enabled RailClone internally collapses object to single mesh thus more RAM is needed.
If instancing engine is on RailClone finds identical segment parts and treats them as proxies- very cool.
That is how I understand it.

Sometimes just for debugging, disabling instancing engine can give You some info what is misbehaving.