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#Interrupted rendering

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#66601From: Rudy MantelNov 15, 1993 4:49 PM
Yesterday I was rendering a series of 300 TGA's to disk. When I returned to my computer I found the screen scambled and the following message: "Cheap stack dump linked in=> no dump Aborting…" The rendering stopped at frame 234. Today, the exact same thinb occurred- I decided tomake some changes in the animation and re-started the rendering. At the same frame, 234, the computer crashed and the same message ! I re-booted and continued rendering from 234 to 300. When I began to record that series of TGA's from disk to VTR, the program only recognized frames 0-233 ! I'm presently recording the frames from VP after writing an IFL. I noted that on 12 Nov. Tom Anderson got the same error message- Any thoughts on this phenomenom would be appreciated- Rudy
#66625From: Bob WeiblerNov 15, 1993 7:03 PM
I might be completely off the mark here, but one answer to one ?: It seems to me that I've had a similar problem in the past, and VP will only recognize .TGA's numbered sequentially from 0000 on up. In other words, if you rendered your second set of frames as 234-300 (ie ????0234.TGA-????0300.TGA) then VP will not recognize these. I have had to delete all movement up to the affected area and slide all remaining movement back, so that the second rendering can also start at frame 0. I haven't done this in R3, only R2 if that matters. Just my thoughts…
#66693From: MARTIN G FOSTERNov 16, 1993 12:13 AM
Rudy, sounds like you have a conflict of some kind. Or you were swapping to disk excessively and your controller choked on pharlap.