Made a Sequencer Master with 5 sequences - seq 1 made fly thru - render - fine // seq 2 fly thru - render - not fine its going to the player start now and I can’t get back control to the output to not just render from the player start . Reloaded project and the one that did work nolonger does - will only render from player start and stay there - no level blueprints- gamemode on none - cinematic checkbox in render settings checked . I’ve rendered alot out of sequencer in multiple projects so not sure this one is stumping me as to what changed all of a sudden.
I can create another master cinematic with another 5 seq’s and they render right . What could I have changed in the Sequencer that tells the camera to choose the player start instead a of running the sequencer track ??
Simplified above //==========================================ranting can disregard unless you have an solution to the secondary gripes
Sorry for the long post but been using Sequencer for months and anguish has built up
I have been rendering out of this project file for weeks
Suddenly after working on a sequence the camera will not render the right view . I can go back into another sequence and it will -but I tried to go into another new sequence - I havnt touched it and tried to render and it flips to the unknown camera view ( ends up being default postion wherever that is after you delete player start)
So I made a Master Seq with 5 sequences
Made one fly thru - rendered fine
Made another fly thru - plays fine -can simulate and still play along camera track - won’t render right camera
there is no camera with the view it is rendering
there is no level blueprint
there is no player start or any real gameplay at all to gunk up anything (* so now its going to that default position with no player start*)
So when I went back to 1st seq and tested to see if its camera would render it worked fine
so - that should mean no REnder Movie settings changed
when I went back to 2cd sequence it would only render the camera from the first
clicked activate camera button in 2cd seq no effect
There is only 1 CineCameraActor in my outliner - there are 5 sequences in the master track so why ?
Both Seq 1 and Seq 2 share the same actor but the others have one that doesnt show up in the outliner how ?
What happens alot is for some unknown reason to me and it seems very random the camera inside a sequencer loses its camera icon and you can’t click on it any more to activate it
You then have right click and make posses-able to get icon back - why ?
After a few attempts to get rendering the Seq2 goes back to random spot thats under the ground .
So I re-added the player start and that was where it was going to -
but why is it stopping Sequencer from rendering ?
this makes absolutely no sense - why is Sequencer not the highest priority when rendering - nothing should override what you see when you hit play.
So I rebooted the project file
re-opened master Sequence go into the Seq that rendered fine
Seq 1 - the camera is in red ? So i re-attached it to what i think is the right camera even tried "rebind posses able references . it now will only render from the player start . Tried changing gamemode nothing - put back to none
From a filmmaking persons perspective this is soooo frustrating . If you put a camera in and set up its specs you want them to always be that not change - where are the pixel setup properties ? I want my cameras to be i.e 5000 pixels x 1500 pixels how do i set that up in filmback settings -? Why would you setup your camera with one spec then want to render it out to a completely different size ? Why put the pixel setup in the render window this is absurd - set ur camera up in pixels render to pixels - your not gonna want to randomly pick some pixel value that has nothing to do with your ratio of your camera. How do you even know what pixels are 150mmx45mm ??
Back to main problem
So why is this now only rendering out from the player start ?
And how do you get the blueprints to play while you are working and still save your changes ??
Do I have to hit simulate then play on timeline cus that will not show exactly what is happening when I do a fly thru if all the blueprints start firing and particles are looping they may not loop at the exact time as when the camera gets to a certain point so how would i know that a particle will fire at the right time ?
