Can anyone confirm this?

I am using v13h for Windows... if I set multipass higher than 1 pass with stereo set... I just get a blank/black image.

Works fine otherwise... 1 pass... no probs.

-vern

It's HAIR!

Multipass higher than 1 and hair with stereo do not render. Black image is result. will past a bug report.

-vern

Great detective work, Vern, thanks!

In the meantime, you could could create a "left image" by sliding the camera to the left in your chor and rendering that as a non-stereo image.

submit that and the orig as a cross eye pair or combine them into anaglyphic in a paint program.

Yeah... maybe I will do that.

Seems odd that... well... the stereo render option is basically doing the same thing... it seems funny it would have a problem with ANY settings.

Oh well.

EDIT:

Oh!

An easier way to render a stereo image set as a workaround to this is just animate the camera over two frames... unattended render.

I have to render both images since I had to redo the project to get a stereo effect... my camera was so far away with an extreme focal angle... everything was totally flat.

-vern

Just make sure motion blur is switched off (it probably is for most stills contest entries, but you never know).

Have you tried Final with no multipass - I didn't have any problems rendering stereo - but then I don't have hair - well, actually I have hair, but you don't... well you do of course ... but...but.. you get what I mean.

Yes, that works fine, however... I must use multipass for the hair... otherwise it looks like... bleeaaa! Hair never quite looks good enough for me unless I use multipass... expecially when using muhair.

-vern

I had the same problem, you can use multipass if you:
Turn Off "Use Frame Distance"- if that doesn't work, turn off "Shaders" also.
When I did that, I was able to render the pure anaglyph.
Hope that helps!

I'm using Muhair... so I can't turn off shaders...

... actually... it was when i turned on shaders that the problem started... I just realized that now.

I am going to add that note to my report. Narrow it down even more.

-vern

Okay, I can see where you MUST have hair that way, but in my render, It won't be missed... so I wait to see your render in stereo!

It's ready... just waiting fot the contest results before posting.

Even though... some people already know which one is mine... can't imagine how that happened.



I know you guys in MAAM are laughing at me right now...

... if you remember the hideous amount of detail... that... uh... isn't even seen in the image... at all... all those hours... down the tubes... can't even see it... not a bit of it... none of it... tons of detail... splinage up the wazoo... masive amounts of decals... painstaking research... cropped out... sheesh...

I have to stop modeling the atomic structure of individual molecules for these contest images. I have to scale everything down so much in the choreography.

-vern