Render over max time limit still not done? 0%

tl_ced39204

I have my max render time set to 4 hours. I've used it before successfully with no issue. On the most recent render it was still going at 4 hours 45 minutes and said 0% complete.

I usually do this overnight but decided to run it while I was gone during the day. Once it's going, my computer is unusable until it's done. So I had to cancel it because there was no end in sight.

Is this normal? What did I do wrong to make it go longer than it has in the past?

Richard Haseltine

What is in the scene, how is it lit, and is it in an enclosed space (a room, a sky-dome, anythign that blocks distant light)?

tl_ced39204

Richard Haseltine said:

What is in the scene, how is it lit, and is it in an enclosed space (a room, a sky-dome, anythign that blocks distant light)?

It's just two people posed. Nothing else. I've rendered the image about 5 times now. I rendered it again last night and it worked fine. I changed nothing about the render.

That one time just went over the time limit and I couldn't figure out why it did that. I didn't want it to happen again so I thought maybe people knew an easy "oh don't do this" to prevent the problem.

sfaa69

When rendering in Iray, I always set the time to zero, thus taking it out of the equation. One less variable to worry about.

chris-2599934

Yeah, set the time to 0 (or to some very high number), then stop the render when it looks finished to you.

fastbike1

@sfaa69 , @chris-2599934

Neither post answers the OP's question about rendering beyond the time limit. I don't have an answer because I've never had a render continue beyond the time limit. However, being at 0% with 2 figures in 4 hours implies something very wrong with settings or the scene. 

I would check the render quality setting. I have read threads where some people set the quality setting very high, eveen though it is effectively a multiplier on render length. The OP may have subdivision set vey high, which could cause the render to drop to CPU.