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Need help. Reality 3D animation

mcpughmcpugh Posts: 98
edited December 1969 in Art Studio

How do I create an animation with Luxrender through Reality 3D? All I can get is one single frame.

Thank you.

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  • JimmyC_2009JimmyC_2009 Posts: 8,891
    edited December 1969

    In the Reality interface, there are two buttons at the bottom, one says 'Render Frame', and the other says 'Render Animation'.

    Have you tired that? Luxrender is not the quickest render engine I have seen, and you would need to know what you are doing as far as rendering times are concerned. Luxrender usually takes hours to render an image rather than minutes, so, at 30 frames per second, you animation could take a very long time to complete.

  • mcpughmcpugh Posts: 98
    edited December 1969

    Yeah, I could kick myself. I was clicking on "Render Frame." However, after noticing my brainfart, I reloaded the DAZ file and rerendered through Reality, this time clicking on Render Animation. I notice Reality doing what it was supposed to for all thirty frames, but then in LuxRender it got hung up somewhere saying "idle" at the bottom and "freeing resources" in the log. Stayed that way for at least 30 minutes.

    Perhaps I should just render each frame, frame by frame. That seems to be the only thing that works.

  • JimmyC_2009JimmyC_2009 Posts: 8,891
    edited December 1969

    That probably would be a better solution.

    Animations are usually better done as an image sequence, even inside DAZ Studio.

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