Hey everybody,

I wanted to ask a simple question about mantra PBR. I have a very simple .hip with a grid+box for testing, and although I was very happy with Mantra until now, I am having serious issues to render out a series of images.

The problem is, that mantra takes ~2min to start rendering, and will do the render job in 5-6sec. And again 2min to start rendering, and again 5-6sec for the render. So, for 10 images it takes nearly 20min to render out.
This is kinda annoying, as I want to render a sequence of ~300 images, each of them with a low render time, but huge downtimes between each frames.
It doesn't matter if I cache the geo, nor any other actions to speed up my computer. I have also tried to search for this problem, and it seems to be a known issue, but I haven't found a solution yet.

I am using a MacBook Pro with high Sierra and Houdini 16.5 apprentice version.

I am very thankful for any help, I really don't want to cloud render this simple task.

Greetings, Gyula

Starts instantly for me.

jsmack
Starts instantly for me.

What kind of licensing are you running? I am starting to believe, this has to do with the licensing type of my apprentice version, maybe also something to do with DNS, but I am going to do research about the problem now. I hope I can get it to run soon..