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#Darn that Renderer!

    23-Jul-95 16:17:18
Sb: #Darn that Renderer!
Fm: Vicki Oliver 73571,2053
To: All
I have 3DS4, and when I make complex images, and render them, the progress bar in the "transforming objects" part almost always stops at about one third of the way through, and will stay there. This happens when I am rendering an object in Gourard, Phong, and Metal, but never in Flat. Sometimes I can overcome this by toggling to the rendering screen (using the space bar), and toggling back, but if I stay in the rendering screen for too long, a green and red warning box comes up, with no words in it, and a box that would say "continue" or "OK", or something like that. And there is no cursor, and no matter what I do, nothing happens, so I have to reboot. It is a real pain in the butt! Is there anything I can do about this? Oh, and this also happens with the .3ds example files that come with the program. -Dano (Vicki's son)