05-21-2008, 03:46 AM
I have some strange things going on here - I'm hoping somebody can shed some light on this.
basically i set off a couple of big simulations off overnight - long sims with small spacing settings - big slow sims!!
when i came in the the morning deadline had reset the task to begin again - (an 8 hour time out that i wasn't aware of - now fixed)
but the issue is - the new sim which is simming and the original sim that got stopped don't match.
so say my original sim got to F200 and my new sim (going overe the top of the fxd files) is only up to F156 - then there is a big change between F155 and F156 when I render.
I was under the impression that you could sim the same file ahundred times and get the same result (so long as you don't change any settings of course!!)
Another strangeness is - another sim that was also huge didn't display this behaviour - i.e. the new resimmed frames matched the older simmed frames perfectly - as i would expect.
(we also have done some tests on smaller scenes just to try and work out the issue - and we have the same results - it seems random, sometimes the sim is the same and sometimes not.)
anybody got any ideas what may be going on here?
p.s thanks to anybody for reading all of this!
basically i set off a couple of big simulations off overnight - long sims with small spacing settings - big slow sims!!
when i came in the the morning deadline had reset the task to begin again - (an 8 hour time out that i wasn't aware of - now fixed)
but the issue is - the new sim which is simming and the original sim that got stopped don't match.
so say my original sim got to F200 and my new sim (going overe the top of the fxd files) is only up to F156 - then there is a big change between F155 and F156 when I render.
I was under the impression that you could sim the same file ahundred times and get the same result (so long as you don't change any settings of course!!)
Another strangeness is - another sim that was also huge didn't display this behaviour - i.e. the new resimmed frames matched the older simmed frames perfectly - as i would expect.
(we also have done some tests on smaller scenes just to try and work out the issue - and we have the same results - it seems random, sometimes the sim is the same and sometimes not.)
anybody got any ideas what may be going on here?
p.s thanks to anybody for reading all of this!