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- O.K.
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- First, let me say that I'm a newbee to 3D animation, and LW in
- general. So I wouldn't be surprised if I'm doing something wrong
- (I hope I am).
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- I'm running the pre-release on a PC with the following:
- 486DX2 @ 80Mhz
- 32 MB RAM
- 1.5 GB HD
- Diamond Viper VLB w/ 2MB VRAM
- Windows for Work Groups 3.11 w/ 32-bit file access & 32-bit disk access.
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- Second, I just like to make a note that the install option should
- have an option for installing JUST the LW programs in case some
- out there don't have a CDROM. Otherwise, the installation process
- will not complete (Am I doing something wrong?). My computer at work
- doesn't have a CDROM, but my home computer does.
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- My first problem is with the make preview function. When I make
- previews of animations, two things happen:
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- 1. If the animation is less than about 100 frames, when I go to play
- it, all I see is the background and no objects. I know I'm doing
- something wrong here. Anybody know?
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- 2. If the animation is longer than 100 frames, it hangs my PC after
- making the 105th or so frame. This happened with the spacefig.scn
- that came on the LW CD. It doesn't matter whether I'm using bounding
- boxs or wire frames, it still hangs. If anyone can tell me the exact
- procedure for making the preview of this without hanging up my PC,
- I'd greatly appreciate it.
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- My second problem is when rendering a single frame (#43) of the
- blade scene on the LW CD.
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- These are the settings:
- render type= Realistic
- Trace shadows = on
- Custom size = 1024x768
- pixel aspect ratio = square pixels
- Antialiasing = Med.
- Soft Filter = on
- Adaptice Sampling = on
- Threshold = 8
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- With the above settings, my machine gets to rendering the second half
- of the frame and crashing with the following error (this is most
- likely useful only for the programmers):
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- Win32s Error
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- Lightwave.exe
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- Unhandled Exception detected. (Code=0xC0000005, Lightwave.exe : 7C70B
- [or sometimes 7C67E])
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- Any clues??
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- Thanks!
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- Alex
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- AT&T Bell Laboratories
- No. Andover, MA
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