Alan Lorence
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Try a 320×240 stage size — I bet it works.
If so, I suspect that pIllusion is trying to launch pIRender to do your rendering (because your output size is too large for pIllusion to render itself), and it’s pIRender that is crashing.
Launch pIRender manually (there’s a shortcut in the Start – Programs – particleIllusion 3 menu), then click the “Options” button and uncheck “use hardware acceleration”.
Alan.
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Not possible. The particle images are not stored externally — they’re stored in the library file itself.
Alan.
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I understand now.
Blockers can only “something” from a single layer: the layer they’re on unless you check the “use layers below…” option. If that option is checked, the first layer below the blocker’s layer (including the layer the blocker is on) is checked for a bg image, and as soon as one is found, that’s the image used.
So there’s no way to do what you want.
The “use layers below…” blocker property was intended for situations where you have a single bg image but multiple layers above it.
Alan.
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Why don’t you want to add another emitter?
The easiest way to do this (and maybe only way) is to Copy the emitter, then paste it at the frame number you want it to start at.
Alan.
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I understand your frustration, but we’re still working on it. I’ll start posting status updates on our website shortly, but right now all I can say is this has been an extremely challenging project for us.
Alan.
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Blockers will only show either the bg image/movie that’s on a layer, or the background color of the project. They don’t show particles.
Does that explain it?
Alan.
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Hmm. I meant encode to AVI using the DivX codec. I haven’t updated my DivX install in a very long time, so maybe the latest versions don’t produce an AVI? That would surprise me.
It needs to be an AVI in order for pIllusion to load it.
Alan.
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There are 2 ways you can do this depending on how complex your emitter is. The first way is to make the particle type color gradients the first color you want, and the tint color the second. Then animate the “tint strength” when you want to the tint color to take over.
The other way is to use 2 different emitters. Step the number graph of the first one down to 0 to turn it off and add the 2nd emitter at the frame you want the color to change.
You may also be able to use the “use next color” option (in the colors page of the properties dialog), but that would take some trial and error to figure out the value to set it to.
Alan.
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Yes, this is a problem with the current demo version. The latest version is 3.0.3 — try that instead but I think the problem may still be there.
Alan.