Hello all.
Been awhile.
Running into something and hoping anyone might know where to look.

I have an ncloth simulation setup that seems fine and the basic problem is this:

The animation renders correctly when rendering a single frame from the render view, however when I batch render, my passive shapes are transparent (in the rendered image files), until an ncloth shape collides or passes near.

Feels like there is something that just isn't flipped on correctly since I can see everything fine when I render as single frames.

Running on 8.5.

Any advice appreciated!

thanks.