#SMOKE question
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All,
I have a question regarding SMOKE_I.SXP usage. I'm using SMOKE in a scene with
13 different settings, each in a different material. Render times were
unmanageably long until I tried copying SMOKE_I.SXP as SMOKE_I2.SXP,
SMOKE_I3.SXP, etc. I then had each material call a different copy of SMOKE and
the render times came back down. All was fine until today, when I had this
error appear during the Readying Materials part of rendering: "Can't load
process C:\TESTMAPS\SMOKE_I3_I.SXP" Somehow the underscore-i was appended to
one of the SXP copies, and it has the same problem (with a different SXP copy)
each time I try to re-render. Any ideas for a work-around? See the image in the
ASOFT-IPAS library called SUNS.JPG (should be there soon). A colleague here
suggests using only one copy of the SXP, with each material calling the same
EXPONENT setting… but I'm using several different exponents…
Thanks,
Eric
The best thing to do would be to simplify the .prj file down to just the
necessary objects to reproduce that error message, and then send it to me with
a text file explaining the problem via binary email. I'll take a look at it
and try to find out what's going on with it.
– G
Eric:
I think your problem is the fact that you are naming your files wrong.
You said that you called them SMOKE_I1.SXP, etc. This should not work! The
"_I" at the end tells the program that the IPAS is compiled for the Intel chip,
as opposed to the Weitek. (*_W.SXP)
What you should do is to call them SMOKE1_I.SXP, etc, and you should be fine!
Greg Pyros