Having crashes with simplify and AO Bounces in daily builds, but I´m having trouble reproducing it in simpler scenes, can some of you try it in complex scenes please?

Having crashes with simplify and AO Bounces in daily builds.
But I´m having trouble reproducing it in simpler scenes to post a bug, can some of you try it in complex scenes please?

The thing is that blender crashes and I can´t see the error in the console, tomorrow I´ll try to record the crash and see if I can catch it in the recording.

On the other hand is not something I´m being able to reproduce in some example scenes, and it´s something that cannot be reproduced in the 2.79b release.

So I´m asking some of you to try the simplify feature with the AO Bounces enabled in more or less complex scenes and check if it crashes.

And if you manage to reproduce the problem in simpler scenes, please post it here and file the bug :slight_smile:

Thanks!!!

You can report bugs with more complex scenes if it’s the only way to reproduce the problem. Usually it’s still possible to simplify some things though, maybe replacing all meshes by cubes, applying the same material to all meshes, etc.

It´s a complex scene because it has several linked scenes and each blend is around 700Mb to 1Gb, so it would be hard to share it,

If someone here achieve the replication, great, if not as soon as I can I will try to strip the scene down and file a bug, because this basically renders the simplify ao bounces unusable, but since I can´t replicate it it has puzzled me.

I just know it´s a bug because is something that it´s working in 2.79b.

Cheers!

Hey Bretch.

I managed to reduce the problem to a simple scene, if you open this .blend and press F12 it will automatically crash.

http://pasteall.org/blend/index.php?id=50704

If you set the Simplify AO bounces optimization to 0, it will render.

Hope this helps to tackle this bug, it´s a pity because we cannot accelerate the render with the AO Bounces now.

Cheers!

Thanks, but please report it in the bug tracker.

Said and done:

https://developer.blender.org/T57811

Cheers!