CompuServe Messages

Roger, a few thoughts on your Imagine/brush wrapping problem: 1) memory for brushes, etc must be contiguous. So, after you have loaded Imagine and your .imp file is set up, how much contiguous memory is avail? A related question is: does the brush data have to go into CHIP ram? If so, do you have enough contiguous chip ram? 2) remember, a 1200×1700 image, 2 bitplane, takes up 255K of ram. It may well compress to 36K for disk storage, but in memory it is expanded out, and that's what it takes (if displayed as a 'normal' amiga image). (1200×1700 = 2,040,000 pixels / 8 (bits per byte) = 255K) 3) I *wonder* if Imagine translates all brushes to 24bit resolution before mapping. It would make sense to do so, given that it is computing in 24bits…. if so that would easily explain the memory problem. 4) were you 'altitude' mapping? Altitude mapping can takes many megs of memory just to wrap a simple map onto a simple object. What would normally be of little consequence is suddenly a major memory problem. You might want to start rendering your image; then go back to the CLI and type AVAIL every ten seconds or so. That way you could monitor what ram is being used up, and at what point it failed? –jp–seattle–