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Obj. parts won't render

    13-Jul-91 06:54:54
Fm: Brian Maguire 76417,507
To: Trin Yuthasastrakosol 70303,1307
Sorry it took me so long to reply to your message, Trin, but I wasn't logging on to CIS as often as usual this week. I don't think the problem is chip ram — I'm pretty sure it's fast ram. The program has no problem showing the final image, which I think would happen if chip ram was the issue. Instead, it simply doesn't render certain objects. In my experiment I created a large scene – a skating rink, actually – and gradually added skaters, tables around the rink, spectators, etc. The entire area always rendered, but after adding a certain number of objects adding any more would not only result in the new object(s) not rendering, but would cause parts of older objects to not render. That was what led me to conclude that it is a fast ram problem. Of course, upgrading your agnus would probably be a good idea anyway. Let me know how you do, since I am very curious about this problem. (I really want to create that full skating rink image as I originally planned it.)