Alan Lorence
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No, there is not.
But even if such an editor existed, it probably would not be able to load a corrupted library file.
If you zip and upload the corrupted file somewhere, I will take a look at it and see what the problem is. It may be fixable.
Alan.
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A backup copy of each library is made whenever you modify the library. If you set it to 1 (I’m not sure it will let you set it to 0) then you’ll get a single backup of each library.
Fewer backups means more chance of losing data if something bad (or unintended) happens to the library, but it uses less space.
If you regularly make your own backup copies of libraries, then set this as low as you want.
It’s also a good idea to manually clean out your library backups folder once in a while if you modify libraries very much — this will free up a lot of drive space.
Alan.
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So you add the clip to a new project (that contains no emitters), then “play”, and it freezes at some point? Does it require you to force-quit particleIllusion? How long is the clip?
Test with NO emitters in the project.
Alan.
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Just to confirm Aharon’s thoughts, it will be several months before 3.5 (the next planned paid upgrade) will be released — probably sometime around NAB (in April).
Alan.
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Excellent! Thanks for posting your results.
Would you mind copying the OpenGL info shown in particleIllusion (on the OpenGL prefs page, in the info window) here? I’d like to see what it shows. You can just post the top 10 lines or so — I don’t need to see all of the supported extensions.
Alan.
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This appears to have been an OpenGL driver (video driver) issue. It was fixed by unchecking the “do not use texture RAM for bg images” option in the OpenGL page of particleIllusion 3 preferences.
This option is checked by default, since most cards made in the last 3 years are faster when displaying bg images with it checked than with it not checked.
Alan.
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Depends how you launch particleView. If you browse to the particleIllusion 3 folder and double-click the pView exe there, the image display will work. If you use a desktop shortcut (or Start menu, or Quicklaunch) it won’t.
The reason is we didn’t fill in the “Start in:” property of the shortcuts.
To fix this, r-click on the shortcut (whether it’s on the desktop, in the Start menu, or in the quicklaunch bar) and select “Properties”. Then change the “Start in” box to point to the folder where particleView.exe is located. You can copy and paste this from the “Target:” box above, but you have to remove the “particleView.exe” part.
So on my system, I have:
Target: “C:\Program Files\particleIllusion_3\particleView.exe”
So I need to make “Start in” look like:
Start in: “C:\Program Files\particleIllusion_3”
Notice that the quotes are required if the path has any spaces in it. Also, there is no ending slash on the “Start in:” path.
Alan.
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Yes, unless you’ve got an emitter that won’t move in reference to the background. You can do it if the background (camera) only is moving and the emitter is not moving in reference to the background, or if the background (camera) is not moving and the emitter is.
Alan.
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We’ve found that if you have the Panasonic DV codec installed, 3.0.2 will crash when loading DV AVIs. So the answer (for now) is to remove the Panasonic DV codec either using a tool like Codec Sniper, or by using Windows to remove the codec.
Alan.