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#preview make stopped?

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#156929From: Mei-Tien HsingMar 3, 1995 3:18 PM

I made a preview for 1000 frames, it took quite a while, when I came back to the PC, found it was showing one scene and not moving at all. What would cause it? I have made a preview for this with 300 frames successfully. Thanks. Mei-Tien

#157387From: Jonas Ruikis [ADESK]Mar 6, 1995 4:21 PM

Hi Mei-Tein, << I made a preview for 1000 frames, it took quite a while, when I came back to the PC, found it was showing one scene and not moving at all. What would cause it? >> Was the machine hung or idle? Did you run out of disk space? Have you run any additional tests since this post? jonas[adesk]

#157526From: Mei-Tien HsingMar 7, 1995 9:29 AM

Jonas, Thanks for the reply. I finally got Inside 3DS R4 and found it quite nice. << I made a preview for 1000 frames, it took quite a while, when I came back to the PC, found it was showing one scene and not moving at all. What would cause it? >> <Was the machine hung or idle?> idle, I think. I did ESC and came back to 3DS in DOS. <Did you run out of disk space?> I don't think so. I checked statistics and found no swapping files. <Have you run any additional tests since this post?> Not yet. Wonder if this is a RAM issue. I have 16 M. Does preview uses RAM and disks when needed? BTW, that was the robot example for keyscripts I was trying to render. I remember seeing .KXP stopped message at the bottom of the screen. Mei-Tien

#157544From: Jonas Ruikis [ADESK]Mar 7, 1995 11:12 AM

Hi Mei-Tien, << Wonder if this is a RAM issue. I have 16 M. Does preview uses RAM and disks when needed? >> It should page to disk as needed and that leads me to the question of how much disk space do you have available for the swap file and the flic file that is being created? jonas[adesk]

#157956From: Mei-Tien HsingMar 9, 1995 7:31 AM

I think I have around 50 MB available then. I did not try to create a flic , I was doing a preview. Mei-Tien

#157964From: Jonas Ruikis [ADESK]Mar 9, 1995 8:19 AM

Hi Mie-Tien, << BTW, that was the robot example for keyscripts I was trying to render. I remember seeing .KXP stopped message at the bottom of the screen….1000 frames.. >> I'd like you to run some more tests if possible. Does it fail with 500 frames or 750 frames? What is the Info/Status after (500/750) frames? jonas[adesk]