Alan Lorence
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If you load the rendered output back into particleIllusion, do the particles show? If not, the alpha channel is probably empty (not rendering).
Did you check the “create non-intense alpha” option? If so, and if all of the particles in the project are “intense”, none of them will be added to the alpha channel. This is intended behavior — check the docs.
Is the render occurring in particleIllusion itself, or in pIRender? If pIRender, you probably need to run pIRender manually and turn off hardware acceleration.
Alan.
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It’s all about how you imported the particle shape image.
If the original PNG contained an alpha channel, you should use that wnen importing. If not, it looks like you selected “use dark colors”. That doesn’t work if the important parts of the image contain black or near-black colors.
Alan.
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Just to be clear, this is the 3.0.7 update installer, not the full version installer (only the update does a “check location”).
What OS X version are you running?
Alan.
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Ok, please email me directly at support at wondertouch dotcom.
Sounds like I may finally be able to track this bug down!
Alan.
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When you look at the movie in Windows (not Vegas), what size does it think it is?
Alan.
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Sorry for the slow reply. I think deleting the prefs file will help.
/ Library / Preferences / pIllusion3.prefs Alan.
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I suggest moving the images to the “unused” folder, closing the props dialog, loading a different library (or closing pIllusion), then loading the lib you’re modifying again and then deleting the “unused” folder. Don’t move the images and delete the folder all at one time.
This is an issue that I’ve never been able to duplicate when testing, although I know it’s happened to me before.
Alan.
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As you’ve seen, one huge library will kill your performance, so breaking it into smaller libs is important.
You need to go into each library and delete the unused particle shape images in each one to reduce the filesize.
Also, you’re aware of particleView’s search function, right?
Alan.
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|I assume you mean the black vertical line in the graph. It’s set by the “end frame” edit box in the playback toolbar.
This page may help with some of these basic questions:
https://www.wondertouch.com/default.asp?loadContent=quickstart.aspAlso, if you use the “help” menu when within the application you can find a lot of info in the html docs.
Alan.