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Subject: Re: The Modeler that Ate San Francisco
To: cjohnson@crl.com (Carl Andrew Johnson)
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 04:29:31 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: lightwave-l@netcom.com
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> Arrrgh!!! Yesterday I spent FOUR (count 'em, One-two-three-frickin' FOUR)
> hours working on a model. It was a good model. It was a happy model. I
> saved it every ten minutes like a good modeler should. I exported it into
> Layout. I made lots fine tuned the surfaces. Oh! There was one misplaced
> polygon. I went back into Modeler and imported my object. All was well. I
> tweaked a point here and shifted a polygon there. I saved the object,
> exported it and went into Layout. The object I saw looked like, well...
> I've seen similar things in my toilet. I rushed back into Modeler and there
> was my object. Somehow it had been transformed into a jumble of
> disconnected poly-gones! I re-loaded my saved version. You know what... it
> was also a tangled mass of points and polygons that only held the slightest
> resemblance to my masterpiece.
>
> Has this happened to anyone else? Has Modeler eaten your hard labor and
> belched out a chewed up mass of polygons?
>
> Carl
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It's copy protection... if your dongle gets bumped out or some such....
this will happen.... or maybe it happens when it feels like it...? :)
Seems to happen to several people, it could also be the type of polys but
in this case more likely the dongle thing.
FYI the copy protection info came from stuart.
>
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