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Posted by mgincnj at Jul 6, 2021, 10:44:53 PM
High quality rendering problems since PhotoVideoRendering plugin 2.2a
I'm running Sweet Home 3D 6.5.2 under MacOS 11.4 Big Sur on an M-1 Mac Mini. For the past month I've been working happily and creating lots of high quality renderings for a personal project.

I installed the PhotoVideoRendering plugin a couple of weeks ago, which has worked pretty well with some limitations (Yafaray rendering crashed SH3D, but that seems true of all of the rendering plugins that use Yafaray on my Mac).

A couple of days ago the PVR plugin appears to have upgraded automatically to the 2.2 version, and that's when all of the problems began. The symptoms evolved over time and are mysterious. They were annoying at first, but now are serious. They started with the rendering running very slowly and freezing; "completing" but with some squares un-rendered; crashing; and now generating a blank gray image in quality levels 3 & 4.

For a while I could use the standard Create Photo dialog which worked (slowly) even as the plugin was giving problems; but no longer. Currently any quality 3 or 4 rendering executes quickly but generates a blank gray image, whether executed via the plugin or via Create Photo.

I've tried uninstalling the plugins, exiting and re-entering SweetHome 3D; rebooting MacOS. Makes no difference now and I can't do any high quality renderings.

Suggestions?