I'm not sure where to report this:

I downloaded WebRender to be part of this project and rendered some frames the last few hours.

I'm not familiar with the story of TWO, but found this frame a little bit weird... Nimmie Amee seems not to be that evil that she would pain this poor stump just for fun.

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Now, I noticed that when I open scene 11 or 14 in Animation Master the following files are missing:
small%20fir.jpg
Single HalfA.mdl

So the following frames have to be rendered again:
1_04_11_0120.tga
1_04_11_0134.tga
1_04_11_0154.tga
1_04_14_0140.tga

Unfortunately, WebRender didn't report any errors.

Yeah, there's a log missing (single halfA).

Ditto here, I was rendering those frames as well. No log.

Yep - the entire sequence will need to be re-rendered.....

Webrender question that I thought I would piggyback, as it doesn't really warrant a new thread. On a "fresh" XP machine, I get this error on startup of the Render Messenger:

Render Slave
Unable to load plug-in [c:\tmp\WebRender\ImageIOs\AVI.iio],
The specified module could not be found.

And if it's not obvious, it's install path was c:\tmp\WebRender.

I have a machine that gave this error, but seems to be rendering fine. Would the output of a machine that receives this error be effected by the error?


EDIT: Oh.. btw, the file is actually there.

Ok.. since I have 3 machines that are giving this error, yet they seem to be rendering fine.. I will explain what I am doing. I have just about given up on getting WebRender to run under Linux using Wine.. so I grabbed a Bart PE boot CD and checked it out. Here is what I am currently doing. As Bart PE requires a Windows XP license, it's not the best solution, but for me, we have a site license, so it's not an issue.

On machines that are going to get wiped out anyway, I am using the C: drive to store the tmptwodata and rendered frames. On machines I'd prefer not to touch the C: of, I am using a 1GB USB key. As long as it is attached to the machine on bootup, Bart PE sees the drive fine. I then browse to a network share and install WebRender to the D: Drive (USB Key). It gives an error saying it needs 150 K bytes free on the X: drive (ROM drive) that you can ignore. Once it's installed, I run the v15WebRenderStuff.exe from the network share as well. This gives a Lip Sync error message, but again, nothing to worry about.

Now, I believe the minimum RAM requirements are 1.5GB +, as a 1GB machine, after booting Bart PE only has 870MB left for WebRender and that isn't enough.

I haven't tried running WebRender from the USB key without going through the installation to the USB key yet.. I'll try that out and see what happens when I get a few minutes.

Also, the utility used to create a Bart PE boot CD has a ton of options, I haven't played with it yet, but it might even have the option to have WebRender and the WebRenderStuff pre-installed on the Bart PE boot CD.

Actually, the USB key idea doesn't work, as WebRender must be writing to disk during the rendering process. The CPU was jumping between 100% and 20%ish ever second or so. When using the C: drive, it didn't do that. Oh well.