Alan Lorence
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In Preferences, check the “use new method of loading AVIs” (or uncheck it if it’s checked already).
Alan.
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Not in particleIllusion — there are no interparticle collisions.
If you’re generating essentially cocentric rings which you then use as your displacement map, if you keep the range of colors (greyscale) at 50% max, then when you combine ripples, you’ll get the interference patterns you want.
So instead of rendering ripples that go full white on black, make them go to 50% (grey) instead, so when you add 2 of these ripple images on top of each other, you’ll get some areas that add up to full white.
Does that make sense?
Alan.
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If they are beta drivers, you may want to go back to the latest non-beta version.
Alan.
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Well, it seems YOU can’t, since pIRender doesn’t seem to want to work hardware-accelerated with your video card/drivers.
It is possible normally to render larger sizes with hw accel in pIRender.
Alan.
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Just to be clear, it was the pIRender hardware acceleration that was the problem? Turning it off works now?
It’s really best if the rendering is done in pIllusion itself — to make sure this happens most of the time, maximize the particleIllusion application so it fills the entire desktop at rendering time. It will then maximize the stage window size automatically, and if it still can’t fit the output size you want, it will then call pIRender.
Unless you’re working at a relatively low desktop resolution, this should ensure that pIllusion does the rendering almost all of the time.
Alan.
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Is it trying to render within particleIllusion, or is it launching pIRender? If pIRender, open pIR manually, click the options button and uncheck hardware acceleration.
Alan.
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Ok, then I guess the answer is: make sure the output size (stage size) is not a weird number. Make sure it’s divisible evenly by 4 and you should be fine.
Alan.
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Make sure your desktop is set to 24 or 32 bpp color.
Also try restarting the computer.
You may need to update your video drivers too.
Alan.
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Some codecs don’t like weird sizes — you’re probably better off saving an image sequence out of pIllusion, not a movie.
Alan.