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OK, I got Kray, I managed a really interesting (but relatively harmless) accident, my internet connection got cancelled... but now I'm back online - with a problem.

I got a scene that is not that complex... but it allows me to exit LW instantly by pressing any KRAY render button.
Are there any restrictions that I'm unaware of? I'll try to attach the scene the moment I get it exported 'and' unrenderable, since it seems to be a little tricky to recreate.
The objects alone render fine... textured and untextured (I need the override textures function for this project anyway). I found some errors here and there, that I corrected, and also cleaned any ngons, double sideds or similar. Then I import the light setup from the crashscene... not definitely a problem. Then the cameras... and I'd love to say that is the problem. But I tried it the other was round, too (first cameras, then light setup). I also recreated the lights from scratch, I exported the camera motion and applied it to a new one (whatever that should have solved... I was desparate.). Whatever I do, the moment I could render the images I need (cameramoves and objects were locked months ago...) LW simply disappears.

Is there a difference between LW and KRAY regarding this case: I did not duplicate the objects (except for backup), I simply (for fast testing) deleted the images from the image editor and removed the textures from the corresponding Layers (color channel only). Does Kray maybe still access the original objects with all those information? I recall some version, where KRAY needed to save the LW scene and objects before rendering...

Anyway. At the moment I'm back to the LW rendering (which annoys me a little... nargh!), but hopefully my worries can be solved here?!?

Have a nice weekend...
Greets.
Oliver.

OK, I got it... seems to have been an error with some of the textures. Thank god I don't need them... for this project.

Greets.
Oliver.

Glad you sorted it. You can try putting the following line into Kray header: and then posting the result here. That way we can better see where the problem happens.

I tried that... it does not even get that far.

Since I believe the textures are the problem, it does not make sense to attach only 1MB. The zipfile is 21MB...
Would it be OK, to send you that file directly?

Greets.
Oliver.

Sure send it over.

I tried your scene today but I wasn't able to load the scene in LW9.2 no matter what - it kept crashing LW just as it was done loading.

Then I loaded all objects from scene and it went fine. I also rendered it with latest internal beta Kray with no problem. So I guess whatever problems were there are fixed and you can expect it to render in next release without a problem.

OK, then I'll have to wait. Strange scene. I work with lightwave now for more than a decade, but something like this has never happeed to me before. Such uncontrolled errors and I just don't get it.

Anyway:
Thanks for your help!

Greets.
Oliver.