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Another Vibrant Report

    10-Mar-94 15:22:46
Fm: M. G. BATCHELOR 71532,1214
Hi Chuck, Please disregard my last message about hard vs soft reset when switching from Windows environment to 3DS environment – I've already proven that my theory was wrong when it just happened again. However, this time I got even more information AND I was fully awake <g> this time, and noticed more. Here's the whole scenario for this latest occurance: Loaded model/anim file and manipulated in ED & KF – did not render. Chose to switch to the MatEd module – Red/White/Yellow screen pops up. (This is a vibrant-generated screen. Red/White vert.bars & Yell.text) INITIALIZATION ERROR (missed this before – top of screen) ERROR 18: Unknown Error Number This error should not occur, contact your distributor. Press any key to continue (I pressed a key) Screen blanks to black w/ underscore cursor flashing upper left corn. (I press CTRL-C) Pops back to Editor module – dialog box opened (3ds) ERROR: Cannot Initialize Materials Editor Display. Please Reconfigure With A Display Mode Which IS Able To Display 80×34 Characters. CONTINUE (Clicked on it) – Now I'm back in ED, no problems. IMMEDIATELY CHOSE TO ENTER MATERIALS EDITOR AGAIN. It did not happen again – continued to work and render – no problem. As I mentioned before, if I go into the MatEd upon first loading 3DS, the problem has never occured. If I do something else first, then go to the MatEd, it may happen. I hope this may be of some use to you. Please keep me posted. BILL