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particleView example doesn’t animate
The particle in the viewing window doesn’t animate. It’s like it’s on pause, which it’s not, and it won’t change when I scroll through search results. Not sure how to fix this.
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Probably an OpenGL issue. Have you updated video drivers lately? Perhaps you should. (and you’re certain it’s not paused?)
Alan.
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Alan Lorence
Product Manager
GenArts, Inc.
http://www.genarts.com
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I’m certain it wasn’t paused. The strange this after restarting it a dozen times it started working again.
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I’m not being prompted to update any video drivers.
I have to restart my computer for the search window to animate again. I’ll use it, go onto something else and when I come back to it again, it’s stopped working. The same goes for particleIllusion itself. It will work, I’ll use it, work on something else, and when I come back to it nothing will animated when I press Play. The window is stuck on whatever was there last. The only thing that fixes it is a restart of my computer.
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You won’t get a prompt to update video drivers. Do you know if you have graphics hardware based on NVIDIA or AMD/ATI? Whichever it is, go directly to the NVIDIA or AMD websites and download the latest driver installers.
Alan.
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Alan Lorence
Product Manager
GenArts, Inc.
http://www.genarts.com
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I’m using a Mac with OS 10.6.8. If a driver needed to be updated, it would be included in an update for the OS. I’m all up to date as far as that’s concerned so I can’t figure out what’s happening. It’s random when it works and doesn’t so it’s hard to duplicate what’s going on when it happens.
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Ah, right, on Mac it’s a different story.
You’ve hit the spacebar to pause/unpause, and that’s definitely not the problem, right? Make sure you click in the preview window before hitting spacebar.
Alan.
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Alan Lorence
Product Manager
GenArts, Inc.
http://www.genarts.com
http://www.wondertouch.com -
Pause is definitely not a problem. Something else that’s happening is I’ll start up particleIllusion and everything in the windows will be white until I cover up part of the screen with another app’s window, then everything under that window now appears but still won’t animated or move. Hard to describe, hope that makes sense.
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Next time it happens, try resizing the preview window and see if it starts animating again, or switch into full-screen mode and then back.
Alan.
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Alan Lorence
Product Manager
GenArts, Inc.
http://www.genarts.com
http://www.wondertouch.com
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