major mess up

[Hoogle]

ever had 1 of those days

3 hours spent modelling

9 + hours rendering

Computer cpu and graphics card working almost at 100% throughout the whole time

Options best global illumination settings best anti aliasing settings best everything settings

test random frame renders were perfect just go and check the preview and this is what I get
materials not textured properly they look flat not displaying the nice shiny textures like on test renders

edges may as well have no anti alias applied

Normally I would do standard renders of these and fake in after effects but the 1 time I want to cast shadows and reflections with 100% accuracy this is what I am getting. I am hoping it is just because the buffer is overloaded so cant display it properly in render preview and after 9 hours of rendering I haevnt got the heart to click stop and start again. I just hate having wasted days and this is the main reason I rarely do projects for myself to much frustration, when doing it for clients etc you know the nice paycheck at the end makes it all worthwhile.

Ok venting done any of you had a day like this ie a photoshop project you spend hours on and then scrapped because of a stupid mistake as an example.

 

[Fatboy73]

Oh I can feel your pain. Back in college, whilst in the midst of the mad rush to get our final projects completed, groups of us would take over computer labs and turn them into makeshift render farms. I'm talking 36 hours or more of rendering, only to finally succumb to exhaustion after 12 hours, fall asleep and find out the computer froze around 10% completion or ended up rendering the wrong frames. Many tortured screams were heard in those halls come finals time.