Hunter B

It's not so much the time it takes to render each frame of the annimation... it's the time it takes to get from the end of one frame to the begining of the next frame. I can see the rendering bar skip along fairly fast but the time it takes to get to a new rendering bar is aweful. javascript:void(0) Eek! The frame can render in about 4 - 5 minutes but the switch over can take up to 13 minutes. Does anybody else run across this issue?? Is there something I can do to speed this along??javascript:void(0) Confused

You guys are great! Thanks.... I'll take a look at the class issues. I hope that's it!!

Ok...ONE MORE TIME..... I cut and paste a bunch of objects from a previous doc and after they are psted only a couple of the dozen or so objects is active, you know... able to move around as a group....I cannot even group them after pasting because they do not stay active... SO... I CNTRL+Z and thry to back up to before I pasted anything in but not all of my objects go away.... Does that make sense???

Ok what gives.... I go and open a drawing and copy everyting relevent to my next drawing and then paste to the new drawing.. but, nothing except a few of the copied items stay 'Active'. So if I forget to group everything but want to nudge or rotate anything only a couple of them move where I want them to go. And even if I do remember to group this pasting it does no good because only a couple items have stayed active. SO..... Then if I then CTRL+Z to back up a few steps to 'unpaste' then 'repaste' these objects so I can make sure everything is grouped after I paste the items to my drawing only a few of the objects become 'unpasted' the other objects stay in the drawing,... so then I have to pickout and delete the objects that did not go away with my 'unpaste'. Is this a known glitch or is this something funky in my machine??? And am I making any sense??? PLEASE HELP!

The problem is that the overlay of the two different objects(the 2d and 3d versions of this object) do not line up correctly. Looking at just the object in question switch between 2d and 3d plan modes (0 and 5 in the number pad) I think you will find that your object jumps around between views. When you edit the object Copy a view of your 3d object and convert it to lines or polygons then edit the 2d part of the object and replace the 2d object with the new version using the paste in place option.

I'm trying to output an annimation file to an m2v file... anybody have a clue as to how to achieve this???

My editor would love it if I could export an annimation file to m2v format. Does anybody know if this is doable???

I too was was having run time C++ crashes in XP but while running an annimation. The only thing that seemed to works was to run a registry cleaner ('tuneup utilities' download from Cnet) Update and reinstall everything including service packs and drivers. And for some reason it all works again.

Thanks Dave, It seems to be the file.. everything else I've done works just fine. Thanks anyway!

Dave, Any ideas as to what might be causing this??

Final Renderworks with gobos and textures... up til this It's been fairly good...

Ok... here's a weird one. I can render ONCE, just once... and it works great.... but, when I have to change something the next time I re-render anything I get a C++ run Time error crash. Does ANYBODY have a clue as to how the solve this one????

How do you keep a color Custom Color pallete associated with a drawing. How do you update a custom color pallete after you re-open a drawing with out wiping out a previous custom color...

Ziska, I've found that if I "edit" the symbol and make sure all the parts are filled and textured they do read as black in RW...you can also make them silver or aluminum but then you have to create a copy of the original and manipulate that.

Well, I take each object and extract a surface from the object and then texture that surface...does that make sense?

Yep!... the 3D power pack tools have all the tricks you need to do this.

Ray, Thank you so much for the advice. I will try everone of your suggestions. Kevin, I was mistaken I am running 10.5, but thanks for the usefull advice.

Ok I give up... I've got a file that keeps crashing on me as I render the annimation. Does anybody have a clue as to why a file might crash? It always seems to crash at around 47 frames. Here's the rub. I sent it off to VW and they were able to get it to output a short version of what I wanted. I've built a test file from a bank page to eliminate any corruptions that might be in the file that started all this, with no luck. I'm running XP- VW 10.1 with 1 gig ram and a 2.8 chip along with a Nvidia Gforce 64MB graphics card(with updated drivers) I've removed the XP service pack this morning and it just crashed again. Before all this started I was having (and still am having) difficulty starting VW sometimes... it comes up with an error message that then wants to send a report to Microsoft. After I get this message I RESTORE to a differnet point and try agian.. it seems to be kind of random as to which restore point allows VW to start. I recentlly replaced the hard drive and reinstalled VW. I'm really stuck on this one. HELP PLEASE!

"VW app has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience" Please tell Microsoft about this problem. Send Error Report. VW 10.0.1 Recently reinstalled not yet upgraded. Windows XP 2.8 GHz 512 Ram

I think I just fixed it.... I resatored to a point before a windows update... and Voila everything works... Has anybody else reported problems after updating Windows XP?? Remind me to upgrade to a MAC someday. Thanks again Katie....(My daughter katie turns two Tomorrow!)

Stan- yep it was a whole new drive.... I think I just got it fixed.... I ran an Windows XP update and I think I got something that F%#@ed it up... I ran system restore and removed some of that stuff... and Viola... magic, it works now. I totally agree about the Spybot S&D. Thanks Again.

Yeah... even installed a new Hard Drive last Friday! Yuck.... thanks for trying.

Over the last couple of weeks I've been running into error messages upon start up of VW... sometimes if I wait a couple of hours it starts. After a couple of weeks of this I reloaded VW and it helped for a while...then slowly but surely the problem happend again... My I.T. guy said it must be a virus... ALL virus definitions are up to date....so he said it must be an error on your hard drive, so I ran a scan and NADDA, zip, nothing... no errors on the drive. SO, we replaced the drive last friday and reloaded VW. Yesterday things worked fine, but today it flunked out agian on start up. Does ANYBODY have clue as to what might be the problem?

Over the last couple of weeks I've been running into error messages upon start up of VW... sometimes if I wait a couple of hours it starts. After a couple of weeks of this I reloaded VW and it helped for a while...then slowly but surely the problem happend again... My I.T. guy said it must be a virus... ALL virus definitions are up to date....so he said it must be an error on your hard drive, so I ran a scan and NADDA, zip, nothing... no errors on the drive. SO, we replaced the drive last friday and reloaded VW. Yesterday things worked fine, but today it flunked out agian on start up. Does ANYBODY have clue as to what might be the problem?

Why don't thngs work the way they are supposed to??? I spend my time to develope a custom color pallette yesterday and then when I get to work this morning the Pallette is wiped clean... so I try to sample the colors I had created yesterday but alas you cannot transfer a sampled color to the custom color pallete.. Some how this is not surprising. Yesterday, anytime I tried to update a gobo projector tool (ie. change the pattern or update the beam spread the color and focus info was wiped clean and I had to re-enter those perameters, which is not a big deal until you have to do 45 instruments. Are these bugs know? or is this planed for some reason?