Alan Lorence
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Here’s another thing to try:
1) Create a smaller project in pI3, 640 x 480
2) Add a single emitter to the project
3) Ctrl+click the “Save Output” button (hold down the Ctrl key when you click the toolbar button). This will force pIRender to be used even though pI3 can do the render itself.
See if that works in pIR.
Alan.
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AutoUpdate is broken in the Mac versions of particleIllusion. When I release 3.0.8.1 (I think that’s the correct version number — it may be 3.0.8.2) which will be a manual update install, AutoUpdate will start working again.
I expect to release that next week sometime at the latest.
Alan.
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It will only create the pirender_project file when called from pI3.
You’re definitely using the latest version of pIR that I just released, 3.0.7.1, right? If not, that’s your problem.
Otherwise, make sure “auto load” is NOT checked in pIR. You didn’t mention if you tried that.
Alan.
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It’s really 3.0.4.2 and has a few bug fixes. The pIRender update is the important one for most people, especially if they use ATI and have had to turn off hardware acceleration in pIRender. I’ll post a list of changes in both sometime soon — please remind me if I forget. =)
Alan.
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Ok, I just remembered something. Launch pIRender manually, then uncheck the “autoload” option, close pIRender, and try again from pI3.
If that doesn’t help try this:
1) Save your project file.
2) when pIRender is launched by pI3, if the render starts right away click the little “?” button to bring up the “about” window and pause the render. If it doesn’t start right away, don’t start it.
3) When pIR isn’t rendering (not yet started or paused with “about” box), search for “pirender_project.ip3” then compare its size to the project file you saved in step 1. If you can’t find the project file, or if the project files aren’t identical, let me know the details.
Alan.
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When pI3 calls pIRender, it saves your project in a temporary project file called “pirender_project.ip3”. Why don’t you search for that file and delete it — perhaps it got set to read-only or something, so pIR is never getting the real project info.
Alan.
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Uncompressed AVI doesn’t work for some people with pI. I’ve never been able to figure out why. Try a different format and see if that helps.
Alan.
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I’m posting an update to pIRender on Windows (via AutoUpdate) that should fix this problem.
Alan.
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There’s no “loop creation” function in particleIllusion so you’ll have to do the crossfade trick, where you take two copies of the same clip (in Vegas), offset one in time, then fade them into each other.
To find snow emitters, use particleView (installed with particleIllusion), open the search window (press S) then type “snow”. If you have all of the emitter libraries installed you’ll find several.
Alan.
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