Posts by Alexander Devaykin

  • Crashing when trying to Render

    emcminn it was a multithreading issue. Geometry data could have been modified in one thread, while the other one was processing this data. This bug was for a long time there already, it's just occasion that with 2.8 it started to be a problem, due to some other changes and tweaks. As it usually happens with undefined behavior bugs which are hard to identify and reproduce.

  • Crashing when trying to Render

    Quote from emcminn

    Is a 1.1GB Sketchup model too big for Enscape on a 2080 Ti?

    It depends on what takes up that space. With 1 GB of pure geometry data you will very probably have some issues. Not memory related though.

    Quote from emcminn

    When I launch Enscape is gets to about 60% and then I notice the CPU maxes out and then crashes both Enscape and Sketchup. I did send the latest crash/log files the last time this happened.

    We have received it, thank you! According to the logs Enscape detects it is frozen and shuts down. It may be a false positive, because the project seems to be pretty big and some operations may really take longer than expected. We collect such cases to find a good solution. Thank you for providing your case again! It would be great to have the project too to have a repro case to work with, if possible. Contact me via PM if you can share it.


    A temporary workaround for you would be to switch to the draft quality mode - freeze is detected while preparing data structures for global illumination rendering.

  • Pano stereo slow

    This sounds like physics simulation for walking slows down because of the big amount of geometry. This is expected with the growing number of objects we analyze for collision detection. The same applies for the screenshot/panorama rendering. Even if it does not slow down that much for a single screenshot, for stereo panorama multiply the slowdown by 64.

  • Pano stereo slow

    DeKoetsier it very probably due to the amount of geometry on the scene - Enscape simply needs some time to converge to the stable result while doing each panorama slice.


    Easy way to check if this time is expected is to make a normal screenshot in 2048x2048 resolution and measure how long it takes. Than multiply this time by 64 - the number of screenshots needed for stereo panorama, and it should roughly match the time you measured for complete stereo panorama.

  • wip2

    The shots are awesome!


    I see one usability issue with the table in the kitchen - will be hard to squeeze onto the chairs between the table and the wall :P

  • Massive Revit Model - Enscape can't handle it

    Hi Patty - Ridley


    Did you try to launch Enscape with that model and see what happens?

    The biggest VRAM consumers are textures and Enscape itself (frame buffer, acceleration structures, shadow maps and so on). Geometry usually does not take much space. Views, sheets, etc. do not have any significant effect on the Enscape memory consumption at all.


    To use as little memory as possible for Enscape itself, you should try to switch to "Draft" quality mode prior to starting Enscape with that model. Also keep Enscape window small - if you have a 4k display and have Enscape fullscreen - you have lost a few gigabytes of VRAM already.


    Textures are scaled down with respect to the world size they occupy, where possible. Even if you have hundreds of textures in the project it will be somewhat hard to waste more that 1-2 gigabytes for textures.


    What will really be bad is startup time. Exporting and processing all the geometry and scaling textures may take much time. But you still could try and see what will happen.


    Good luck!

  • V2.6.0 Black screen when rendering

    Hello Ollyt

    Quote from Ollyt

    I'm having the same issues, I cant seem to get it back to working tho, every time I render the just get the black screen. After you close it down I can not get enscape window to open again. Have to close down and open the fole up again and give it another shot.

    We cannot tell much from this symptom alone. Please send the logs - black screen can be a result of a dozen of issues. Very probably it is GPU memory related, however.


    The following can help if it is memory related:

    1. Capture in a lower resolution. If works perfectly every time - you are out of memory because of the capture resolution.

    2. If you have an RTX GPU - make sure you have the latest driver and try disabling RTX.

    3. Change rendering quality to "Draft" - it will also reduce memory consumption and will disable several rendering passes which could have issues.


    These options may become a workaround for the urgent case. For better diagnostics - please send us the logs.

  • Enscape 2.8 prev. 1

    There is an incompatibility between 2.8 preview version project format and web runtime, which means that web standalones created with 2.8 wll work only when 2.8 stable release will be published and web runtime will be updated to that version.

  • Crashing when trying to Render

    Hello PaigeB

    Sorry to hear that.

    Quote from PaigeB

    I have a brand new system, I was rendering the same images last week and now I can't. And it crashes my enscape and my revit.

    I did send the report. I have clients waiting on my rendering ...

    Didn't see your report yet, but.

    Something has changed since last week if it worked well back then.

    1. Driver update? If so - try to roll back to the previous version.

    2. DeviceLost ist very often (but not for 100%) a sign for the insufficient memory. Another GPU memory consuming application running in background? Maybe you changed capture resolution to some huge one?


    I hope this will help you to tackle the issue. Otherwise we will see what is wrong from the logs.