Hi,

I'm having some issues rendering a crowd sequence with Mantra. Basically what's happening is whenever I render a frame range, for some reason the crowd renders completely static (see first link). Camera movement and everything else seems to render correctly.

I have the simulation cached, and the flipbook works as intended (see second link). Textures also seem to render correctly.

Now, what's really odd to me is that if I switch to render current frame (on the same Mantra node), set the playhead on the timeline to any frame and render to disk, that frame renders correctly.

Am I missing anything of importance here here? Just thought I'd check here before I set everything up again in a clean scene for a second attempt.

I'm on 18.0.499.

Gifs with no setting changes between recording them:

Incorrect render: https://imgur.com/a/ncFMFbs [imgur.com] (short, but you see the problem)
Correct flipbook: https://imgur.com/yvmT8FR [imgur.com]

Appreciate any help on the matter.

Cheers!