can't render image sequence anymore

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Hi,
since a while now I haven't gotten a chance to render an image sequence: when I fire up mantra the 1st image renders and then nothing
I've had this issue before which I used to solve by deleting the “houdini 9.5” directory (snow leopard)

but now with houdini 10 I can't find this directory anymore
I have tried several times to unistall and install again but nothing changes

does anyone have a clue?

many thanks
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Hi,

If you have the “Clear completed frames” toggle turned off in the Render Scheduler, Houdini always gets stuck on the first render frame. This has been logged as a bug since 9.5 but please submit [sidefx.com] it again.

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many thanks

works perfectly now

I just logged the bug

thank you
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weird, i also just got this issue where mantra only outputs the first frame of the sequence. it goes through the entire render process but leaves only 1 frame.

with “Clear completed frames” in scheduler i suspect you mean “clear completed jobs”?
unfortunately that didnt fix it for me.

i also did an update to build 10.0.520 but still no go.

anyone else having this with the recent builds or having some work around.

hugs

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Hey, weird,I have the same problem recently. Something wrong with one of the latests versions maybe?
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ah ok then probably just a temporary bug. i reported it yesterday and today i sent my .hipnc to sidex so lets hope they can track it down soon.
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ok, i got the reply now
so, i had not named my file sequence correctly, how stupid of me ops:
maybe youre doing the same thing
just in case you dont know you need to add $F to the name
instead of filename.png write filename_$F.png
that way each frame will get a unique file name and will not overwrite the previous.
filename_1.png filename_2.png and so on
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I was breaking my head over the same problem. Mantra was getting stuck after the 1st frame. I turned on the clear completed jobs in the render scheduler again and it worked!!!!! Its rendering again

Thanks a million Stevenog! You're a life saver
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