Render 1920x1080 - Error Message
by Juliane Meierbach
on
Sep 26, 2008 at 5:59:02 am
I made a scene 1920x1080. When i want to render my particles as a png-sequence with alpha, the pIllusionRender opens and following error message occurs: "An invalid argument was encountered." With 1024x576 it works. But I really need to render it with 1920x1080.
What can i do?
I'm using particleIllusion 3.0.3.
Re: Render 1920x1080 - Error Message by Cedric Lavergne on Sep 27, 2008 at 12:18:34 am
Sounds like you have the problem I had. Try this...
Save the scene in pIllusion.
Launch pIllusionRender.
Select your project file.
Select a target folder for output frames.
Click on Options -> Uncheck Use OpenGL hardware acceleration -> OK
Check Save Alpha.
Click on Render.
Re: Render 1920x1080 - Error Message by Alan Lorence on Sep 27, 2008 at 11:32:41 am
It sounds to me like you're not using the latest version of pIRender. When you do a "check for updates" do you see pIRender listed? If so, download and install the update.
If that's not the problem or it still doesn't work after updating, email support at wondertouch dot com and we'll figure out the details of what's wrong.
Re: Render 1920x1080 - Error Message by Juliane Meierbach on Sep 30, 2008 at 11:50:05 am
I don't understand the difference between removing and turning it off. I go to background image, remove and then the bg-icon gets a red cross the same way like when I turn it off.
Re: Render 1920x1080 - Error Message by Juliane Meierbach on Oct 4, 2008 at 2:17:09 pm
i finally found out, what was going wrong. i don't really understand it, but i found out that the error message only occurs, when the background video is a .wmv-file. with .avi it works perfectly. even if i remove the .wmv-movie it doesn't work. when i take an .avi-video instead and then remove it again, it suddenly works... weird...
Re: Render 1920x1080 - Error Message by Alan Lorence on Oct 6, 2008 at 4:01:36 pm
Maybe there is a problem with WMV in pIRender -- we'll check into it.
BUT...
If you "remove" the WMV, then your project no longer has a WMV file in it, and it should work fine in pIRender, even if there is a problem with WMV in pIRender.
Re: Render 1920x1080 - Error Message by John Holste on Oct 6, 2008 at 5:10:04 pm
Juliane,
is it possible for you to check the versions of particleIllusion and pIllusionRender and post them? pI is easy just do Help->About. pIR click the [?] button under the [render] button in the pIR dialog. Also can you provide the specifications of the wmv file you are using for a background? You can generally R-click->Properties->Summary to get the info but you may also have to click the [advanced] button.
