Rendering error help please

[Riyona]

I'm having problems with renders an error massage appears thats doesn't allow me to do my renders although I have finished my project.

The Error message that appears as the following:

An exception occurred while rendering with 3ds Max.

This render will abort. If you render again without resolving the exception, you may experience instability.

Unknown Exception

[Stefan_L · Accepted solution]

The answer is easy, but not very helpful:

Could be anything! 🙂

Some more details would help:

- computer setup

- operating system

- version of 3ds Max

- render engine (mentalray, iray, scanline, vray, ...)

- scene size

- lighting setup

- 3rd party plugins

- geometry source (modeled in 3dsMax, imported from other software, ...)

- render output size

...

[Riyona]

Thank you stefan for your cooperation!
Regarding your questions, the answers are the following:

I use windows 7 HP and core i5

- version of 3ds Max : 2014

- render engine (mentalray, iray, scanline, vray, ...) : Mental Ray

- scene size : I don't know

- lighting setup : didn't use it

- 3rd party plugins : none

- geometry source : modeled in 3D max and some imported from  Archive 3D

- render output size : I dont know umm I need it in A4 size

I'm still a beginner but I'll do my best to work it out.. I've actually finished my project I just need to do the renders.

I have attached a screenshot of the problem

[Stefan_L · Accepted solution]

But you could render this scene (or any other scene) before?

As it fails during the Translating Scene process, it could be caused by corrupted objects. Try the following:

Hide all objects, draw a box and render again.

If this works you can nail it down by unhiding the objects one by one (or in groups), if it fails again, you unhided the bad one. Don't forget to delete the box 🙂

If this doesn't work open a new scene, draw a box an render.

If this works, delete the box and merge the objects from the old scene in, again one by one or in groups and hit render after every step. If it fails again you merged the bad one.

For this testing an output resolution (Render Setup/Common tab) of 320x240px is enough, for A4 size 10 times higher is fine.

[Riyona · Accepted solution]

The problem is not with merging because it was working perfectly before until I have tried to download the V-ray. Then I have unistalled 3Dmax 2014 and installed 3D max 2012. When I did that , the stairs that I modelled was corrupted. Then I have re-installed 3D max 2014 and then the render stopped working. I have tried to open new 3D max studio and the render worked but where my project that I have done, the render doesnt work. I did freeze and hide but still it didn't work.

Looking forward if you would figure out any solution to this problem

Really, thanks for your time answering my inquiries

[Stefan_L · Accepted solution]

So freezing/hiding everything in your existing scene file and hitting Render fails?

Starting a new, simple scene and hitting Render works?

Then your scene file and/or its contents are (partly) corrupted or otherwise "out of order".

If there's no reasonable obstacle you could zip the file and attach it to a post here.

Anyway, you need to start a fresh new file and get your content salvaged.

Either try the merging way described yesterday, or try to save the old scene as FBX file and import it.

[Riyona]

Thanks for your support!  I have attached the file in dropbox that im working on.. can you please dowload it and figure out how to do the render without the error popping out

This is the link:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/t5msg5xla6rh4bf/Fish3dmax.rar

I tried to attach it here but the file is large

Thank you so much

[Steve_Curley]

Several problems.
Switch to the default Scanline Renderer, try rendering. You'll get a message "error allocating mesh, insufficient memory" pointing to "Layer:aa" as the culprit. No idea what it's supposed to be but whatever it is can't be seen in the viewport (using the Measure utility shows it as having 0 size or volume). Delete it. Render again and you'll get the same error on "Layer:twop". Delete that as well. Render again and you'll get a bucket full of errors about missing UVWs. Those you will have to fix. It will render, both using Scanline and MR, but those UVW errors do need to be fixed.

Also, rendering an orthographic viewport can cause problems. Use a Camera or at least the Perspective viewport.

[Riyona]

How to switch to scanline render??

I dont know how to delete a layer  as well

While importing how can i know that the file is corrupted and wont allow me to render??

And can i use a v-ray instead??

I have fixed the uvw missig error files  🙂

Thank you so much.

[Steve_Curley · Accepted solution]

It's not a Layer - it's geometry (or something), an object with the name "Layer:aa".

Render Settings dialog, scroll to the bottom, expand the Assign Renderer rollout, change the current Renderer in there to Scanline. Only because it shows slightly more useful information (like the object names) than MR does. You can switch back to MR once you've removed those 2 objects.

Vray will likely also fail in a similar way. I don't have it so I can't check that.

[Riyona · Accepted solution]

Do you know any trusted websites that i could import 3d furniture from??

Thank you so much.

[Steve_Curley · Accepted solution]

Not personally, no, but there's lots of sites around. Find a few which look promising and do a bit of background research on them (that's what I'd do anyway).

[darawork · Accepted solution]

I find this site to be pretty good, all models are free: https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/search.html?q=furniture&backendClass=entity

3DSMax can import .skp files. Just go to File -> Import, then browse to the folder you have saved the .skp files into.

[Steve_Curley · Accepted solution]

Can't remember the exact details, but isn't (wasn't) there an issue with Max reading the latest version of Sketchup files? Had to be saved to an earlier file version for Max to load them.

[darawork]

Sorry, yes. The files need to be saved in sketchup version 7 format. You can do this yourself if needed, with the free version of sketchup. It's handy to have it installed anyway. Free 3d software.

[shekhar.mahadik2080]

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[dincerozcan123123]

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[valeria.baci13]

my vray for 3ds max is not rendering for me ,it says that the scene is too far away from origin and the only thing i render is a blank page,please help

[hossamlg]

hello

remove vray and delete all files in program file about vray

and reinstall again

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@valeria.baci13 wrote:

my vray for 3ds max is not rendering for me ,it says that the scene is too far away from origin and the only thing i render is a blank page,please help

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