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#Background problem

    03-Feb-95 19:57:47
Sb: #Background problem
Fm: Elizabeth Creegan 75542,2565
To: All
To anyone out there– I've been using 3DS3 for about a month, working my way through the tutorials. Everything's been going great up till now. While executing Tutorial 9, pg 9-21 (on fogging a bitmap background), I found out that whenever I try to render an image (any image, fog or not) in which a bitmap background has been specified in the Background Method dialog box, my system either freezes or resets at the Rendering progress bar (in the Rendering in Progress dialog box). This doesn't happen if I specify solid-color or gradient backgrounds, just bitmap. The type of file (.TGA, .GIF, etc) doesn't seem to matter. Does anyone have any idea what might cause this, or am I missing something terribly obvious? Not being able to specify a background bitmap sure puts a crimp in my ideas. Incidentally, I'm running 3DS3 on a 486DX2-66 system with 20MB RAM. Thanks for any help!