Yet another Vista question.

[animation man hi]

All the sudden when I try to render something it just renders a blue color any idea on how to fix this.

[Rodney]

All the sudden when I try to render something it just renders a blue color any idea on how to fix this.

 

This may be unrelated to Windows Vista.

The first thing I'd check would be where your camera is pointing to (assuming you are rendering in a Choreography window).

 

Is there anything else rendering in the shot besides blue?

Do you have an image (screencapture) you can upload and share?

[animation man hi]

Yaeh I checked all the camera stuff. I will upload a shot later. I was trying to make water and the I played with the camera options which might have done it.

[heyvern]

Not enough info. From that description it literally could be an infinite number of possibilities... endless. Make this a guide for the future. The more information provided the more helpful we can be.

 

If it happened AFTER changing settings on something, change it back or revert to an older version of the project to see what might have caused it.

 

-vern

[KenH]

Sounds like you have fog turned on in the camera settings. But who knows.

[Master chief]

one thing you might try is Turing off windows areo effect , this generally fixes a lot of am problems that i know of ( right click on desktop => personalize => windows color and appearance => (may have to click on advance options or default mode) => set back ground to windows vista basic . the areo effect defiantly chews up a lot of graphics power so this may take the strain of your card if it isn't a 5 pound power house. which come to think of it wouldn't fit to well in a computer to begin with.

[heyvern]

Jupiter and Venus will align in the sky this evening... maybe there is a connection?

 

Zip the project. Upload it here. We can look at it to see what happened.

 

-vern

[animation man hi]

Ok here is a shot of what it looks like when I render

 

 

[heyvern]

Looks like fog is set in the camera properties... the darker area at the bottom indicates that something is there showing through the fog. Still... hard to tell from the tiny screen shot. Any chance for a larger picture? Expand the camera properties so we can see those as well.

 

p.s. If fog isn't activated in the camera settings it could be in the render settings which override the camera settings in the chor.

 

-vern

[animation man hi]

Ok thanks it was the fog.

[heyvern]

Oh course Ken is the psychic genius who predicted fog... amazing.

 

-vern

[KenH]

Thanks Vern. It's all in the guess really.

 

But do you notice how Vista got blamed for user error? Typical!

[heyvern]

Vista blamed for "fogginess"? Makes perfect sense to me.

 

-vern

[Rodney]

But do you notice how Vista got blamed for user error? Typical!

If I learned anything from Jeff Cantin's ogrely ways long long ago it was to first suspect user error.

His video where he emulated us newbies at our finest by sacrastically quoting us as saying... "It don't work!" when we were the source of our own misery via user error really made an impression on me.

 

I remember thinking "who is this idiot!"... but dammit... he was right.

 

There are so many options in A:M to turn on/off... its so easy to forget... user error is generally a pretty safe bet.

 

Glad you got it figured out!