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Render failed to run

Post by belfegor985 » Sat Aug 29, 2015 2:14 pm

Hello,

I have model (1.57MB) with 4 matherials (all of them are less than 1000x1000)
There are no objects with huge num of polygons.
However render cannot handle it. Just after starting, render (before starting tracing) stops with message:The render may have failed to run.

I have laptop with Win 8.1, Intel Core i5-3337U, 1.8Ghz, 8GB DDRAM, NVIDIA GeForce 750M with 4GB RAM.

SketchUp 2015
Twilight 2.4.4 pro

Can you please advise how can I fix it?

Thank you!

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Re: Render failed to run

Post by Chris » Sat Aug 29, 2015 8:56 pm

It most likely has to do with one of these:

What render method?
What render size?
How many lights?
How many light emitting materials?

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Re: Render failed to run

Post by Fletch » Mon Aug 31, 2015 8:16 am

If you can provide test file here, we can usually tell you the problem right away.
Twilight Render can handle massive scene and is very efficient with RAM usage, so it is likely some other issue. It is difficult to guess from the information you provided we would need the scene.
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Re: Render failed to run

Post by mattm » Fri Feb 23, 2018 4:07 am

I am having this same issue all of a sudden...
produced a few renders on the Prelim setting with no issues, added no more objects lights or textures, just changed the scene position, now "the render may have failed to run" every single time... even if i removed some geometry, turned off the light layers, removed all emmitters.... so no renders will run in any condition...
any help would be appreciated!

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Re: Render failed to run

Post by Chris » Fri Feb 23, 2018 3:52 pm

This almost always falls into two categories: no lights in the scene or you have run out of memory. So the same questions as above,
What render method?
What render size?
How many lights?
How many light emitting materials?

And also, what version of SketchUp? If you are using SU2014 or earlier then it's 32 bit and you are limited in how much RAM it can us.

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Re: Render failed to run

Post by Fletch » Sat Feb 24, 2018 10:01 am

:rtfm:
Fletch wrote: Mon Aug 31, 2015 8:16 am If you can provide test file here, we can usually tell you the problem right away.
Twilight Render can handle massive scene and is very efficient with RAM usage, so it is likely some other issue. It is difficult to guess from the information you provided we would need the scene.
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Re: Render failed to run

Post by esiisabella » Fri Dec 28, 2018 5:43 pm

Hey, I'm having a similar issue with V2 not rendering. I was able to render earlier today and added several textures and lights, and now nothing. I also removed said items to see if this would help and still nothing getting the same message. Any suggestions please.

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Re: Render failed to run

Post by Fletch » Sat Dec 29, 2018 12:54 pm

If it renders with Easy 09, but not with Easy 07 or Easy06 then it's a RAM issue.
Purge the file of unused textures, layers, materials, and components.

Cut all large resolution textures in half.
What resolution are you rendering?

Chris wrote: Fri Feb 23, 2018 3:52 pm This almost always falls into two categories: no lights in the scene or you have run out of memory. So the same questions as above,
What render method?
What render size?
How many lights?
How many light emitting materials?

And also, what version of SketchUp? If you are using SU2014 or earlier then it's 32 bit and you are limited in how much RAM it can us.

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Re: Render failed to run

Post by esiisabella » Mon Dec 31, 2018 3:09 am

It doesn't render on any of those settings either. How do I purge the unused materials without deleting all my settings in twilight?

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Re: Render failed to run

Post by Fletch » Tue Jan 01, 2019 2:42 pm

Preflight Checklist wrote:In SketchUp go to “Window>Model Info>Statistics>Purge Unused” There are great plugins created for cleaning up your SketchUp models of unused and problematic unseen geometry. Models downloaded from the SketchUp Warehouse can oftentimes be a source of problems when it comes to photorealistic rendering. Eliminating and purging these models can often solve issues in problematic scenes. Multiple deep nesting of groups or components can cause problems. If your model does not render, explode "super groups" of models to be simple components. If there are groups of components more than 4 levels deep, it's likely too much. Try this before asking for help.
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