I was trying to understand the new photon mapping extension and tried rendering a bunch of views using the RAD program.
My settings were:
QUALITY= H
DETAIL= H
VARIABILITY= high
INDIRECT= 1
PENUMBRAS= true
RESOLUTION= 1844 863
ZONE= I 0 60 0 60 -1.5873 4.00685
EXPOSURE= 1
render= -ad 10000
I ran into errors after the images finished rendering. A screenshot of my terminal is below. Error messages are in the lower part of the image:
I tried running pfilt on the images and found that almost all the images that were unfinished were truncated in the vertical axis. Some of the images, all of which are supposed to be of the same dimensions, are below:
I got pfilt: warning - partial frame (70%) on all the images where the % range was between 50% to 96%. I googled for 'pfilt partial error' but did not really find anything anywhere except here http://arch.xtr.jp/radiance/tips.htm. Is there anything that I can do to avoid this error in the future ?
The errors/warnings from the logfile are below:
rpict: 289913 rays, 6.90% after 0.001u 0.000s 15.973r hours on hammer12.hpc.rcc.psu.edu (PID 19734)
rpict: signal - Terminate
rpict: 1003391 rays, 31.03% after 0.004u 0.000s 15.976r hours on hammer12.hpc.rcc.psu.edu (PID 19649)
rpict: 464166 rays, 13.79% after 0.002u 0.000s 15.968r hours on hammer12.hpc.rcc.psu.edu (PID 19859)
rpict: signal - Hangup
rpict: 289913 rays, 6.90% after 0.001u 0.000s 15.973r hours on hammer12.hpc.rcc.psu.edu (PID 19734)
rpict: signal - Hangup
rpict: 1003391 rays, 31.03% after 0.004u 0.000s 15.976r hours on hammer12.hpc.rcc.psu.edu (PID 19649)
Processer info (showing 1 processor Update (10/01): The issue, as everyone pointed out, was with my rpict renderings getting killed. I ran the renderings with lower settings and everything worked out of 40):
processor : 39
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 62
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
stepping : 4
microcode : 1064
cpu MHz : 2799.970
cache size : 25600 KB
physical id : 1
siblings : 20
core id : 12
cpu cores : 10
apicid : 57
initial apicid : 57
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp : yes
Memory info:
MemTotal: 264484556 kB
MemFree: 219928068 kB
Buffers: 601816 kB
Cached: 9031312 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 36484016 kB
Inactive: 2907580 kB
Active(anon): 29746652 kB
Inactive(anon): 21492 kB
Active(file): 6737364 kB
Inactive(file): 2886088 kB
Unevictable: 1048592 kB
Mlocked: 2064 kB
SwapTotal: 2097148 kB
SwapFree: 2097148 kB
Shell Options:
autocd off
cdable_vars off
cdspell off
checkhash off
checkjobs off
checkwinsize on
cmdhist on
compat31 off
compat32 off
compat40 off
dirspell off
dotglob off
execfail off
expand_aliases on
extdebug off
extglob on
extquote on
failglob off
force_fignore on
globstar off
gnu_errfmt off
histappend off
histreedit off
histverify off
hostcomplete on
huponexit off
interactive_comments on
lithist off
login_shell off
mailwarn off
no_empty_cmd_completion off
nocaseglob off
nocasematch off
nullglob off
progcomp on
promptvars on
restricted_shell off
shift_verbose off
sourcepath on
xpg_echo off
File sizes:
Ambient file: 235 MB
Images(mostly unf files): 18 MB to 35 MB
Photon Maps (Caustic and Global): 26 MB
fine.
