Microsoft KB Archive/163982

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HOWTO: Resolve Mental Ray Rendering Problems
Last reviewed: February 20, 1997

Article ID: Q163982

The information in this article applies to:


 * Softimage 3D for IRIX, versions 3.5, 3.51

SUMMARY
This procedure provides a starting point for detecting the possible source of mental ray rendering problems:

MORE INFORMATION
  Start SOFTIMAGE 3D from a winterm shell with the command: 'soft -c rsrc'.  In the mental ray Options dialog box, activate the Verbose mode. Render a frame. The Verbose output reports what is wrong.  Check file permissions for the following files: /RENDER_PICTURES This should be 777. /usr/tmp/soft.status Should be erasable and you should be the owner. 