Alan Lorence
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I actually have had the library from Tom for a couple of weeks, but I haven’t been able to find time to clean it up for release. I should be able to do that this week though… in fact, I’ll work on it right now. It’s the perfect Monday morning task. 🙂
Alan.
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Alan Lorence
Product Manager
GenArts, Inc.
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If you load the PNGs back into particleIllusion as a background image, is the aspect ratio correct?
Perhaps there is some aspect ratio info being written incorrectly into the PNG files. Try saving as TGA — does that fix the problem?
Alan.
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Alan Lorence
Product Manager
GenArts, Inc.
http://www.genarts.com
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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
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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 -
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
http://www.wondertouch.com -
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
http://www.wondertouch.com -
Launch pIRender manually, then uncheck the “auto load” settings option. See if that fixes things.
Also note that it could be the output format you’re selecting. Check what pIRender is using when launched manually, and use the same settings when you output from pI3.
Alan.
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Alan Lorence
Product Manager
GenArts, Inc.
http://www.genarts.com
http://www.wondertouch.com -
Were you logged in as admin, or did you use “run as admin…”? Try both if you haven’t.
If that still doesn’t work, just download the emitters from the wondertouch website and unzip them manually.
Alan.
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Alan Lorence
Product Manager
GenArts, Inc.
http://www.genarts.com
http://www.wondertouch.com -
I think you need to login as administrator, or r-click on the particleIllusion shortcut and “run as administrator”, then try the update.
Alan.
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Alan Lorence
Product Manager
GenArts, Inc.
http://www.genarts.com
http://www.wondertouch.com -
The next emitter library is coming. Release schedules are tricky especially when a single individual is key, more so during the summer when vacations and holidays interfere. I’ll stand by what I said earlier:
As many of you know, we’ve been releasing free emitter libraries for particleIllusion every month for the past several years. We will be continuing these periodic releases, providing all users of particleIllusion with fresh ideas and an ever-growing collection of presets, but we are reducing the frequency of library releases; you can expect a new high-quality emitter library roughly every quarter in 2012.
I guess I should be flattered that some people are so eager for new emitter libraries, but way I see it, the delayed release of more emitters (on top of the 3000 already available) isn’t stopping you from using the application. I don’t think you should read into the fact that we’re late on a library release and assume anything about pI’s future.
Alan.
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Alan Lorence
Product Manager
GenArts, Inc.
http://www.genarts.com
http://www.wondertouch.com