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Date: 04 Jan 1995 10:48:10 PST
From: "Fernando Martins" <F4MMART@PB1.PacBell.COM>
Subject: Modeler problems
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Comment: SR F4MMART 01/04/95 10:51:44 PB1
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Hi everybody, I'm back.
I had some problems with modeler lately. I will describe them in order.
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:
DoublePAL: The modeler screen jumps in front of layout
DoubleNTSC: The modeler screen wipes from right to left
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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