#imagine 2 problems
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Anybody else have a problem rendering the objects that come in "3D Modeling
Lab" from Waite Group ? When I do a quick render of the bee only a couple of
legs show up, most are missing and no wings. When I render the space project to
a flc , the spaceship wings disappear and many objects seem to be lost in the
background- polygons disappearing etc.
See my uploaded pcx picture spacey.pcx for a snapshot of the animation, only
about 6000 bytes long ( the actual animation at 640×480 is 57 megabytes long
and took about 15-20 hrs to render NOT RAYTRACE ) in forum section 3 .
I am running Imagine 2.0 from a naked boot disk in drive a: with no memory
manager loading on a dell pentium 90 with 8 megs RAM and a #9GXE64PRO card so I
don't think i could be running out of memory.
My config.sys is the following:
DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
BUFFERS=10,0
FILES=20
DOS=UMB
LASTDRIVE=K
FCBS=16,0
DEVICEHIGH =C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE
devicehigh =c:\mouse\mouse.sys (my dell mouse driver)
STACKS=9,256
Autoexec.bat is:
echo off
c:
cd\imag
imagine
cd\
a:
So simple ! What could be wrong?
Please help.
>> 8 megs ram… I don't think I could be running out of memory
Um, I hate to tell you, but you're running out of memory. Objects, or parts of
objects disappearing are the classic "you're running out of memory" symptom. I
was having problems myself with my P90 and 16M of memory, running low on
complex scenes. 8M is really tight for Imagine on a PC, try upping your memory
to 16M or more (I have 32M and things work great). I know it's expensive, but
at least it's an answer.
Jim Shields
Regal Rodent Development
George,
What you are experiencing is indicative of being low on memory. If you are
rendering in Scanline mode, switch it to TRACE. TRACE uses MUCH less memory
that Scanline. However, you would be better off with at least 16megs.
-GreG