remarkable render times

[kameelian]

hi folks,

I don't know what happened here but I got a render figure that was cranking up by the second.
It was up to 18000+ days by the time I managed to get the thing to exit. As good as M3D is,
I don't think waiting around for over 49 years for a single picture is quite worth it.

Had to take a pic (see below) cus I cudna believe it.

Anyone else seen this kind of glitch?

kam

[David Makin]

Sounds like you found parameter settings that produce an infinite loop.....

[Sockratease]

Have you been dividing by zero again?

How many times have your Mother and I told you about that??

Naughty kameelian!   

[KRAFTWERK]

Been there, done that
Welcome to the club kameelian! 

(∞ + ∞ + ∞ + ∞...) / 0

[DarkBeam]

Oh noes.

[lenord]

Seen it a few times, always my fault for doin something stupid like having 2 decimal points in one of the Render settings or negative Limiter setting or some other kind of Fatfingering of something.

[kameelian]

Hah. it seems I'm in an executive club, then.

I can't recall quite what I did, I just panicked as infinity loomed and clawed my way out.

kam

[Jesse]

Any parameters?

[kameelian]

Any parameters?

Hi Jesse,

I don't think the parameters would be too helpful, really.  I've since tried again what I think I was doing - and just got a bigger picture.

If I recall correctly, I think I was attempting to render a x2 enlargement of a keyframe (or subframe) to 3840x2160 and then added x3 anti-aliasing - nothing particularly unusual - but I MAY (as lenord suggests) have 'fat fingered' the sizes and made them enormous, I'm not sure (?) As I say, I panicked after that because it would not give me back control.