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Black render in Sun-Sky, but not Dome or Scene

guru20guru20 Posts: 72
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

I have a character I set up and rendered in Sun-Sky no problem (see attachments);

I saved and went back in later to add a shield (from OBJ), and then when I tried to render with the exact same settings... nothing. Black.

The kicker is... even if I DELETE the shield, it still renders black! Even though it is now back to where the original successful render occurred

But... if I try to render with Dome or Dome+Scene, it works just fine (but does not provide the lighting I need for my project)

Any ideas why the file would essentially stop rendering when I reopen it, even though it used to render fine??

 

Kor Sun-Sky.png
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Kor Dome.png
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Kor Sun-Sky 2.png
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  • guru20guru20 Posts: 72

    Wow... I even aborted this file, closed out, and reloaded it... and it will no longer render, even without the shield import. All settings are the exact same as the original render, but simply loading the scene again causes it to no longer render?? (note: hmm, there is one small change I made -- I renamed a file folder where I was saving my renders, eliminating a space in the name so that the path would work for the shield's MTL file. Could that possibly affect the rendering??)

    Kor Sun-Sky on Reload.png
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  • guru20guru20 Posts: 72

    Apparently not. I went back and renamed the file folder back to what it was originally named, and it did not fix the problem. Great. So simply saving my scene and exiting Daz means I can never get that same render again?  Wonderful.

    Is there any way to export all of the transforms (for both the models and the sun-sky render settings; I need the lat/long and time of day to be precise) to try a brand new scene?

     

    Interestingly, I opened my other saved scenes (which were also rendered sun-sky) and this isn't happening... only with this one! And I made ZERO changes to it!

  • guru20guru20 Posts: 72

    PROBLEM SOLVED! 

    This may be a bug, but it appears when I saved the file, it saved the SS time as 11:00 PM (ie. pitch black, no sun) instead of 11:00 AM which is what I had it set to!  (seems like a computer system should be using 24-hour format instead of AM/PM anyway...)

  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,162
    guru20 said:

    PROBLEM SOLVED! 

    This may be a bug, but it appears when I saved the file, it saved the SS time as 11:00 PM (ie. pitch black, no sun) instead of 11:00 AM which is what I had it set to!  (seems like a computer system should be using 24-hour format instead of AM/PM anyway...)

    Mine does so there must be a setting for it somewhere.

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