Alan Lorence
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Open pIRender and click the “options” button and turn off hardware acceleration. That’s the short-term fix.
The long-term solution would be to get the latest video drivers for your card.
There’s a chance that your hardware/drivers don’t support the features that pIRender is trying to use, so you may be stuck with software rendering.
Have you already maximized your pIllusion window (so the application fills the entire desktop) before rendering? If your desktop resolution is high enough, this will enable you to render right in pIllusion and bypass pIRender.
Alan.
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So the only thing you changed was checking or unchecking “Save Alpha” — absolutely nothing else was changed?
Alan.
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Always put the emitter on the stage first, then open the properties dialog for the stage emitter. This way you don’t change the original emitter in the library. When you’re finished, you can always use “add to library”.
If you open the properties dialog for the library instead, you’re making a permanent change to the emitters in the library. Sometimes you may want to do this, but I personally always change emitters on the stage and then “add to library” (and delete the original from the library if desired).
Alan.
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Email support at wondertouch dot com with your serial number (if you have it).
Alan.
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I’m not sure it can do exactly what you want. There are some “shooting electricity” emitters in a recent library (Dec or Jan I think), but they’re point emitters, not line emitters.
I think they’ll work for what you want though.
Alan.
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Have you tried selecting all of the text in the filename edit box and typing something new? I wonder if there are some weird characters in there that are causing problems.
Alan.
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Yes, the demo should be able to save project files. (Note that this is not the same as “saving output” or rendering. To do that, click the red “save output” button.)
When you click the “save” button and the dialog opens, make sure that you’ve chosen a folder where you have write access (like “Documents” or “Desktop”), and type a short, simple filename for the project. See if that helps.
Also, make sure you’re not using an old version of the demo. If you recently (in the last month) downloaded it directly from our site, you should have the latest.
Alan.
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I’m not sure as you haven’t given enough details, but try these things:
– In particleIllusion, render on black background, then when you check “save alpha” in the output options dialog, make sure “remove black…” is checked.
– You can edit the properties of the emitter itself — double click it on the stage to open the properties dialog, then click the “particles” tab, and check the “preserve color” option that’s next to “intense”.
Alan.
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Thanks the image did help.
The problem is Vista’s Data Execution Prevention (DEP).
Right click on ‘My Computer’ and choose Properties. In the
Advanced tab/panel, select the “Settings” button in the Performance
pane. Choose the “Data Execution Prevention” tab and switch DEP so
that it is enabled only for essential Windows programs or add particleIllusion to the exception.Alan.