Alan Lorence
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Depends how realistic you want it to be. Open particleView and do a search on “curtain”.
You should have all of the additional emitter libraries before you do this if you want a complete search.
Alan.
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3.0.4.1 is the latest. Check the “updates” section of the “downloads” page on our website.
Alan.
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R-click on your particleIllusion shortcut and “run as administrator”. Then do the update.
Alan.
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Please check the version number. I’m pretty sure you’re not using the latest version. If you were, pIllusionRender would launch to handle the large output resolution.
Alan.
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Are you sure you’re running 2.0.3? When SE is running, use the “about particleIllusion” option in the menus to check the version number.
Alan.
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Here’s what you need to do if you’re using particleIllusion 3.0:
1) Make sure you’re using the latest version
2) Maximize the particleIllusion app window to fill your desktop.
3) Set stage size to 1920×1080 in project settings dialog
4) Make sure stage zoom is set to 100% when ready to render
5) pIRender will launch automatically if pI3 can’t render a size that big itself.
If you’re using particleIllusion SE, steps 1-4 are the same, but step 5 is:
5) Manually resize the stage window so it is large enough to fit the entire stage area at 100% zoom. If your desktop resolution isn’t high enough to do this, then you can’t render 1920×1080 with SE.
Alan.
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Are you running any applications that modify all of your menus or other UI? I’ve forgotten what they’re called… “haxies”? People were having trouble with this in older version of pIllusion on Mac, and they had to disable these UI changes for pIllusion. I can’t remember more specifics as it was several years ago.
You can click the button bar above the library window for “Load Library”.
Alan.
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You’re talking about emitters in a project file?
Once in a while I’ll see the stage window (and/or preview window) get “confused” about textures, and will either start drawing colored squares (no textures) or the wrong textures. To fix it, I just open the properties dialog for a stage emitter, then cancel to close the dialog. This always gets it working right again for me.
If doing this doesn’t help, try the “run with software rendering” option in the Start – Programs – particleIllusion 3.0 – troubleshooting menu. If that fixes the problem, see if there is an updated driver from the ATI site, or if you’re using the latest and it’s a beta driver, go back to the latest non-beta driver.
The “don’t use texture RAM…” preference is for bg images/movies only. If it’s affecting the display of emitters too, then it’s most likely an OpenGL issue.
Alan.
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Give this video a try:
https://www.wondertouch.com/default.asp?loadContent=vid_tut_basics_01.asp
Alan.
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