InitRender called twice (XMB)
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On 27/07/2013 at 03:23, xxxxxxxx wrote:
User Information:
Cinema 4D Version: 13
Platform: Windows ;
Language(s) : C++ ;---------
Hi,When i use my material with the physical renderer, InitRender is called, then FreeRender, then apparently on another instance InitRender and then the rendering starts.
Does anyone know if this is normal?
I want to do costly computations before the rendering starts but i don't know how to distinguish the two cases.
Any advice? Thanks in advance.
cheers
MichaelP.S. i tried it only in r13.
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On 28/07/2013 at 10:57, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Well may be the first InitRender/FreeRender is used for something like Material Preview ?
Have you tested INITRENDERFLAG_PREVIEWRENDER in flags ?
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On 28/07/2013 at 13:43, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Could also be prepass or video post.
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On 29/07/2013 at 01:50, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Originally posted by xxxxxxxx
Well may be the first InitRender/FreeRender is used for something like Material Preview ?Have you tested INITRENDERFLAG_PREVIEWRENDER in flags ?
I don't think it is the Material Preview because InitRender is called right after hitting the render button.
Just the INITRENDERFLAG_TEXTURES flag is set. And actually i don't see any difference in the parameters in InitRenderStruct.
Not sure if it is a prepass or vp thing since it works fine with the normal renderer. Just switching to physical results in two calls afterwards.
Anyway i think i should implement some sort of caching to disk since it could be relatively easily done and would also work around this problem.
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On 29/07/2013 at 01:57, xxxxxxxx wrote:
I can confirm that it happens (tried in R13, too).
The actual reason, I'm not sure of. I guess, when the Physical Renderer clones the document, the material preview renderings are kicked off one more time.
Tips:
- Check for INITRENDERFLAGS (ok, you already did this)
- Check for the document in the InitRenderStruct, see what it is
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On 01/08/2013 at 02:39, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi Jack. Thanks for checking!
You are right. The document (InitRenderStruct::doc) is different in the two calls. Also the mat->GetDocument() pointer changes.
I don't understand why there would be another copy of the document (editor render). Perhaps i should report it as a bug.