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- Hi everybody, I'm back.
-
- I had some problems with modeler lately. I will describe them in order.
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- 1 - One of the animations i pretended to do in the Portugal animation contest
- was to make some letters appear from a monitor screen, in relief. The idea was
- to make a displacement map from the letters in a very subdivided screen and
- then make the flat screen turn into a embossed screen. I started by making a
- square and then subdivide it to about 32768 polygons. Everything was fine, but
- when I loaded the object into 'layout' it had lots of strange polygons
- appearing from everywhere. I came back to modeler, and after a few experiments
- I found out that if I subdivided the square a lot and saved it, when I loaded
- it again it had those strange polygons. I tried 'triple' and 'metaform' and I
- got the same results.
-
- I forgot the whole idea and made other not-so-neat-animation.
-
- 2 - Back in the States, I tried the thing again, but that time loading
- 'modeler' from the 'layout' (the first time I loaded 'modeler' right away).
- Strange things happened. When I tried to subdivide (the first time) it locked
- almost all the functions, and it didn't let me quit to layout again. Some
- times it said 'not enough memory' (I have 10 Megs). I was using DoublePAL, so,
- just for curiosity, I tried DoubleNTSC. The first thing I noticed was that
- when I called 'modeler' it appeared in a different way:
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- DoublePAL: The modeler screen jumps in front of layout
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- DoubleNTSC: The modeler screen wipes from right to left
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- I did the same operation in the new mode and... it worked... but it seamed
- like a 68000 in 1Mhz!!! I really don't understand that...
-
- 3 - I tried to fix the thing with a modeler patch that I downloaded some time
- ago and never tried it before.
-
- When I run the patch it says something like 'invalid version of modeler,
- unable to patch'
-
- I cannot think of a valid reason for that. Is it a Virus? I have VirusChecker
- 6. 3 always running in the background.
-
- I have the Warp Engine 40 installed with 8 Megs on it.
-
- I am going nuts...
-
- My next step will be re-installing the software... Maybe formatting all my
- partitions and leave them just like that...
-
-
- ___ _____ Fernando Martins
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- ______________F4MMART@sr.pacbell.com
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