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Shadows causing crash?

SteveM17SteveM17 Posts: 987
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The other day I loaded a prop into DS, set up some lights , and hit render in 3Delight. Just a quick simple practise.  Worked fine. Then I activated the shadow maps in the lights and when I rendered DS crashed. So I got rid of the prop and tried a different one with the same lights and it worked fine. Why would a particular prop render fine without shadows but with shadows cause it to crash?

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  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001

    I'm assuming that you have, since it happened, restarted/loaded other things, several times...so if you looked at the log, it would be difficult to find the crash, if it is still there.   Your best friend in cases like this is the log file...

    So, if you freshly start Studio, load that prop and enable shadowmap shadows...does the crash occur?  If you can get it to repeat, post the log info...the part from where it says the prop is loaded to the end/crash.

  • SteveM17SteveM17 Posts: 987

    The log I have just abruptly stops, it doesn't even mention the crash, here it is:

    Importing File...
    Importing Building 1.pp2 ...
    Reading Building 1.pp2
    Time to load file: 210.097 ms
    Loaded image bl1se5.jpg
    Loaded image bl1se2.jpg
    Loaded image bl1se4.jpg
    Loaded image bl1se3.jpg
    Loaded image clecon.jpg
    Loaded image bl1se6.jpg
    Loaded image bl1se1.jpg
    Loaded image road2.jpg
    Imported: Building 1.pp2
    Building Scene...
    File loaded in 0 min 1.3 sec.
    Loaded file: Building 1.pp2
    Ran tdlmake on image C:/Users/Public/Documents/My DAZ 3D Library/Runtime/textures/TechnoTown/clecon.jpg
    Ran tdlmake on image C:/Users/Public/Documents/My DAZ 3D Library/Runtime/textures/TechnoTown/bl1se1.jpg
    Ran tdlmake on image C:/Users/Public/Documents/My DAZ 3D Library/Runtime/textures/TechnoTown/road2.jpg
    Ran tdlmake on image C:/Users/Public/Documents/My DAZ 3D Library/Runtime/textures/TechnoTown/bl1se6.jpg
    Ran tdlmake on image C:/Users/Public/Documents/My DAZ 3D Library/Runtime/textures/TechnoTown/bl1se3.jpg
    Ran tdlmake on image C:/Users/Public/Documents/My DAZ 3D Library/Runtime/textures/TechnoTown/bl1se4.jpg
    Ran tdlmake on image C:/Users/Public/Documents/My DAZ 3D Library/Runtime/textures/TechnoTown/refmap.jpg
     

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