ICE Particle Instance Appearing and Disappearing in Render

[Caveman]

Hello everyone.

I have just finished a 500 frame sequence render of ICE particles. The render looks cool with motion blur and all but I have a problem. Particles keeps popping out of nowhere and disappears again. And some vanishes for one frame and reappears again. As you can tell this looks really bad. The first 100 frames are flawless it's the later frames that has this problem. BTW it's rendered with MR.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

[julca]

Hello Caveman,

If same black frame render well in local (quick render region) check your computers installation on your renderfarm.
Did you use a particular plugin for your particles ?

[Caveman]

Hey thanks for the reply.

I have found the cause. I rendered 1-100 on a dual quad core machine and the rest on a quad core machine. It seems that I can't render ICE particles on two different computers as the particles gets messed up. I have already got the particles cached I wonder why it isn't working.

Thanks.

[julca]

Normally it should work.
Is your cache is really accessible (not a local path like C: or D: ?) on your second machine ?

[Caveman]

Yes I have set the cache location correctly. I have disconnected the simulation and set the cache on file to read mode, and it plays fine. Instead of using the cache on file node in the ICE tree, maybe I should check if the other cache option in SI works.

[julca]

Open your scene manually on your computer which render black frames, make a preview and check your logs .
I hope that help you.