[Timothy Loston]

I kind of found a work around for my situation. I still don’t know why it does it though.

My thing was I copied one cloner object many times. Those, like you said, rendered in the viewport but not in the animation. So what I did was deleted all of those copies keeping just the original cloner object and made instances for the rest. They all rendered then.

This solution was limiting though because I had different parts of my cloner objects moving at different times. With the instances I didn’t have any of that control, they just did what the original did. So another thing I had to do was take the original to a new project, animate it, then copy it into the real project, then make instances for it. Then I went back to the new project, reanimated it to how I wanted the others to move, copied it into the real project again, and kept making instances of that one. It was a bear to do.

I’m not sure if you’re dealing with copies of cloner objects, but that’s as much as I’ve figured out so far. I hoped this helped a little. Let me know if you ever figure it out, it’s really frustrating.

[Timothy Loston]

When Depth of Field is turned off in the render settings it does correct the alpha.

But, then I lose all depth of field. No parts of it are blurred, but everything is rendered.

[Timothy Loston]

I noticed something new. The cloner objects are copies of one. It seems that each copy loses one element more than the last.

So the master copy renders perfect.
The first copy only has 2 of the 3 elements.
The second copy has only 1 of the 3 elements.
The third and fourth copy have only 1 of the 3 elements.

I hope this may help in figuring this out. It is so frustrating.

[Timothy Loston]

Yup, no red dots, everything is renderable. Too bad it’s not that easy lol. Also no effectors. Just clean simple keyframe animations.

I would upload the file but I don’t know how to. wah wah

Some additional info that might be helpful is that when I render a single tiff file everything renders fine. But, if I render a tiff sequence or a quicktime they disappear.

[Timothy Loston]

Thanks a lot for that. I think the environment made a real difference in the material.

I’m still getting some of that pixelation and choppy edges though. I changed the AA setting to best. I put a slight hypernurbs on the object so it took care of the major problems, but I’m still not satisfied. Is there anything else you can suggest to make it better?

Thanks again.