I was working on why our renders weren't running parallel and crashing. So I tried a few things and decided to try sending individual parts to our school's render farm. All the files were able to render separately. So I thought maybe it was a hiccup in the file. I tried the final file with everything again. It errored like 58 times without outputting a single frame so I suspended it. I then made a new file and started to reference in parts and then send it to render about 5 frames.
The first is just the garden set and the render camera. The next set of frames was just the dynamics, so hair and cloth. After that I added the forest and extra grass. The animation was next. Following that was the consistency item(s) of the quiver and arrows.
The animation and the consistency items seem to have the most trouble so I did them last, but everything rendered. The consistency item I thought for sure would be the issue because it is attached to a locator that's attached to the character's rig. It was done that way so the quiver would be over the cloth.
Nothing crashed or even errored though. I'm not really sure what's wrong with the file now. I guess I'll try sending it off in full see what happens. If that works I'll try adding the master and shot lights. Maybe something is wrong with the original file and it's corrupted or something. It's kinda beyond me now.
May 20th is when I sat down to work through this.
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