#Bad Craziness/Pharlap?
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Yo.
I'm using 3DS4, running on a 486 50MHz machine with 20MB RAM and 130MB local
disk space free. I'm booting of a floppy with the absolute bare minimum that
can be in there in order to allow my machine to know it's a computer, and not,
say, a cuisinart.
I create a sphere (say). lovely. No, no, let's say I loft the three rocket
files that come with the program. I rotate the appropriate bits, chuck a light
in, give it some ground to stand on. Looking good. Then, after a while, my
lofted objects start to fall to pieces – as if some of the vertices have
suddenly been moved. Anyone struck this?
I suspect it _may_ have something to do with texture mapping, as it only seems
to happen to objects with a texture (like, a bitmap) mapped onto them. Whatever
it is, reoading from the disks don't seem to fix it <sigh>
I'm afraid I'm a novice here people, so speak in a low voice so as not to
frighten me, and let's set a syllable upper limit of 3 on any words used. That
should stretch some of you.
Also, (this is only mildly annoying) whenever I exit the program, I get a
System Halt – could not load command error, which forces me to reboot. No biggy
– I suspect the PharLapp Dos extender in truth.
TIA
Laurie
Laurie,
It sounds like your disks have been corrupted somehow, if reloading them didn't
fix the problem. All you can do is take your copy back to your dealer and
exchange them for a new set…
John
Joy. Thanks John. Actually, I solved part of the problem – I was tweening stuff
in the lofter when it didn't need to be. When I stopped doing this, I fixed the
problem so far as lofted objects goes – if I could crack the other part of it,
I'd be a happy boy.
Ne'er mind.
Thanks again
Laurie
Hi, Laurie;
"Also, (this is only mildly annoying) whenever I exit the program, I get a
System Halt – could not load command error, which forces me to reboot. No biggy
– I suspect the PharLapp Dos extender in truth."
All this means it that you need to replace the boot disk before exiting. Dos is
looking for COMMAND.COM found on the boot disk.
A work-around. In your CONFIG.SYS place this line:
shell=c:\command.com
Make sure that command.com is on the root directory of the hard disk.
// Mark Boyd Internet: mboyd@dplanet.xbbs.com
\X/ Never stop learnin' Compuserve: 76744,644
Thanks Mark, shoulda thought of it myself.
Regards,
Laurie
Hello Laurie.
You have a 50 mhz pc. I just got done fixing my friends. He encountering the
same problem I set his clock speed in his CMOS at 1/5 and it started right up
and no problems on the exit.
Mike White
Cheers Mike, I'll give that a try.
Regards,
Laurie
Hope it works out for you.
Mike
>> Then, after a while, my lofted objects start to fall to pieces – as if some
of the vertices have suddenly been moved. <<
Although I've not seen this w/ 3DS before I have seen systems w/ faulty math
coprocessors shot some weird vectors off into space in ACAD.
Unfortunately I can't give you any file names off the top of my head, but I
have seen some free math diagnostic programs floating around on BBS's.
Good luck w/ your problem!
– Ernie Jackson, 73177,2354
09-Jul-1995 11:34:05 PDT
Hmmm,
I'm starting to get suspicious on this one actually Ernie. You may just have
something here.
Thanks for the tip.
Regards,
Laurie