Alan Lorence
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particleIllusion only works with square pixels, so you need to use the square pixel equivalent size in particleIllusion. Do a search of this forum to find more details.
Alan.
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1) Sounds like an OpenGL issue. Is this in the preview window, stage window, or emitter properties dialog preview? Whenever I have problems with particles showing as colored squares or something that doesn’t look right, I usually add an emitter to the stage, open the emitter properties dialog, then close it immediately by clicking “cancel”. That usually fixes it for me.
We didn’t make any changes in the way that particles are drawn in this update.
2) I haven’t seen this and really don’t know. It shows like this in the stage window, or only when you save output? If when saving output, it could be a pIllusionRender issue.
3) No there is no option for this. You have to change the end frame number manually to match the length of the movie.
Alan.
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Ok, if you’re using Vista and running 3.0.2 or 3.0.3, you won’t be able to use the AutoUpdate to install 3.0.4 — you’ll probably get the “can’t find wtupdate.exe” error message.
You’ll need to use the update installer instead:
https://www.wondertouch.com/default.asp?loadContent=updates.aspWe fixed this in 3.0.4, so if there ever is a 3.0.5 update, AutoUpdate should work on Vista.
This is not an issue for XP.
Alan.
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Go ahead and download the update again — we had a missing file in the zip file earlier today but it’s fixed now.
As John mentioned, you can always email support at wondertouch dot com.
Alan.
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Check the Preferences, and make sure that “use new method of loading AVIs” is checked.
Alan.
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The emitter properties are scaling factors (percentage) applied to the corresponding particle type properties.
If you have more of these basic questions, the html docs are a good place to look.
Alan.
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Look at the particle type in the hierarchy (expand it), not the emitter.
Alan.
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If you set “velocity” to 100, all particles will have a velocity of 100. If you set “velocity” to 75, then “velocity variation” to 25, you’ll get a range from 50 – 100.
Alan.
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You need to the ATI (AMD) website and download the latest drivers for your card:
https://ati.amd.com/support/driver.HTML
If you have the latest, and they’re “beta” drivers, use the latest non-beta drivers instead.
Alan.
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