If Your Render is Suddenly Very Long

[largento]

I was trying to remember this awhile back, but I just had it happen to me and wanted to put it out here for other people.

 

If you find your choreography suddenly takes forever to render (if in fact, it will ever render) and it starts adding up to tens of hours or days or something, one thing that can cause this is having an environment map missing from the choreography's Image Based Lighting.

 

I used to use them all of the time and would run into this.

 

Anyway, just wanted to put it down before my feeble brain forgets it again. :-)