# Problems with hdr image as path traced environment
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/problems-with-hdr-image-as-path-traced-environment/7324
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [May 30, 2021, 11:49am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/problems-with-hdr-image-as-path-traced-environment/7324 "2021-05-30T11:49:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@benediktB](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/benediktB)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2021, 11:49am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/problems-with-hdr-image-as-path-traced-environment/7324/1 "2021-05-30T11:49:24Z")
Hi,
I am using Paraview 5.9.1.
I have an axisymmetric data set, on which I use the rotational extrusion filter.
In this filter, I enable the ray-tracing. Until this point everything works.
But when I use a HDR image as background, I get the following error messages:
```
( 73.427s) [pvbatch]vtkOpenGLFramebufferObj:1376 ERR| vtkOpenGLFramebufferObject (0x6f0df9d0): The framebuffer is incomplete : FRAMEBUFFER_INCOMPLETE_ATTACHMENT
( 91.228s) [pvbatch]vtkOpenGLFramebufferObj:456 ERR| vtkOpenGLFramebufferObject (0x728c84f0): Frame buffer object was not initialized correctly.
```
and a lot of this output:
```
Current framebuffer is bind to framebuffer object 38
color attachment 0:
this attachment is a texture with name: 89
its mipmap level is: 0
this is a cube map texture and the image is contained in face 34069
this is a 3D texture and the zoffset of the attached image is 34069
color attachment 1:
this attachment is a texture with name: 89
its mipmap level is: 0
this is a cube map texture and the image is contained in face 34070
this is a 3D texture and the zoffset of the attached image is 34070
color attachment 2:
this attachment is a texture with name: 89
its mipmap level is: 0
this is a cube map texture and the image is contained in face 34071
this is a 3D texture and the zoffset of the attached image is 34071
color attachment 3:
this attachment is a texture with name: 89
its mipmap level is: 0
this is a cube map texture and the image is contained in face 34072
this is a 3D texture and the zoffset of the attached image is 34072
color attachment 4:
this attachment is a texture with name: 89
its mipmap level is: 0
this is a cube map texture and the image is contained in face 34073
this is a 3D texture and the zoffset of the attached image is 34073
color attachment 5:
this attachment is a texture with name: 89
its mipmap level is: 0
this is a cube map texture and the image is contained in face 34074
this is a 3D texture and the zoffset of the attached image is 34074
color attachment 6:
this attachment is empty
color attachment 7:
this attachment is empty
depth attachment :
this attachment is empty
stencil attachment :
this attachment is empty
there are 8 draw buffers.
draw buffer[0]=GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT0
draw buffer[1]=GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT1
draw buffer[2]=GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT2
draw buffer[3]=GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT3
draw buffer[4]=GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT4
draw buffer[5]=GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT5
draw buffer[6]=GL_NONE
draw buffer[7]=GL_NONE
read buffer=GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT0
```
In spite of this messages, the image is rendered, but a lot RAM is used, which eventually leads to an abortion of the program.
Please find attached the python files I use.
The first one is for the pvbatch command, the second one can be loaded as state into the GUI.
A data set can be downloaded with [Link - LRZ Sync+Share](https://syncandshare.lrz.de/getlink/fiTe5sZVaEZS6BrvfYTbKwXW/).
The HDR image can be downloaded via [HDRI: Lakeside | HDRI Haven](https://hdrihaven.com/hdri/?h=lakeside). I use the 16k version.
[generate\_3d\_image\_hdr\_background.py](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/4R6Qw0EfJ3m0qZlYvALfa1iQEqW.py) (7.9 KB)
[generate\_3d\_image\_hdr\_background\_state.py](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/u0HLAOqML1dAxpUO0nY8oznmLDN.py) (7.0 KB)
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2021, 12:44pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/problems-with-hdr-image-as-path-traced-environment/7324/2 "2021-05-31T12:44:35Z")
What if you use a smaller version of the HDRi ?
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### Author:  [@benediktB](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/benediktB)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2021, 10:46am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/problems-with-hdr-image-as-path-traced-environment/7324/3 "2021-06-04T10:46:41Z")
When I go down to a 4k HDRi it works.
But at this resolution, the image isn’t sharp anymore, so I am looking for a solution which allows me to use the 16k or at least 8k version.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2021, 10:49am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/problems-with-hdr-image-as-path-traced-environment/7324/4 "2021-06-04T10:49:30Z")
upgrade your GPU.
You are running out of GPU memory with the 8K HDRi, you can check that with nvidia-smi
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### Author:  [@benediktB](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/benediktB)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2021, 10:57am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/problems-with-hdr-image-as-path-traced-environment/7324/5 "2021-06-04T10:57:57Z")
I’m running the jobs on our universities linux cluster, I’m not sure if they have a GPU at all.
What I can say is that I have to use paraview mesa, because the “standard” paraview would require X-Server which the cluster does not have.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2021, 1:26pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/problems-with-hdr-image-as-path-traced-environment/7324/6 "2021-06-04T13:26:58Z")
Are you using ParaView in client/server mode ?
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### Author:  [@benediktB](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/benediktB)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2021, 1:48pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/problems-with-hdr-image-as-path-traced-environment/7324/7 "2021-06-04T13:48:34Z")
I’m not 100 % sure but I think no. I use the precompiled binaries.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2021, 1:50pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/problems-with-hdr-image-as-path-traced-environment/7324/8 "2021-06-04T13:50:21Z")
Do you run pvserver on the cluster, paraview on your client and then use File-\>Connect ?
Or, do you access your cluster through a graphical client and run paraview from there ?
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### Author:  [@benediktB](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/benediktB)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2021, 2:16pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/problems-with-hdr-image-as-path-traced-environment/7324/9 "2021-06-04T14:16:44Z")
I access the cluster via a ssh-connection. The precompiled binaries are on the cluster. On the cluster the job is run with ‘pvbatch \< scriptname \> .py’
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2021, 2:41pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/problems-with-hdr-image-as-path-traced-environment/7324/10 "2021-06-04T14:41:57Z")
Are you using local rendering or remote rendering ?
To know that, you can do the following:
Edit → Settings → RenderVies → ShowAnnotations → Enable
Then load your dataset and HDRis, it will be written top left of the render window.