maya render window

rooster

almost every time I render something, it goes white, along with large portions of the screen. Theres no way of telling if the render is going pear shaped until its done.. is this par for the course or is there a workaround?

I know I can just render a portion of the screen to test, but its still a pain in the arse since I have a bunch of lights rendering with mental ray

noritsune

sounds like some process is causing you to switch apps? I know that my mr render window is fine unless I do so, which causes it to go white and not get redrawn until the render's complete.

If I start it rendering and just leave maya hands-off it's usually ok.

rooster

ah, it could be the little window that pops up when someone signs into msn that kills it.. I'll see if closing msn does the trick

jfalconer

yeah a fix to this would be nice to know

pyromania

Disabling the WinXP theme and using classic fixed it for me. I've also heard running Maya in windows 2000 compatability mode helps.