Alan Lorence
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Steven contacted wondertouch support directly to resolve this, but I wanted to post the answer here.
If you’re using a version of SE for Mac that is older than 2.0.2 (which has not yet been released) then it won’t work right in Leopard — the context menu items are wrong.
We’ll be releasing 2.0.2 very soon.
Alan.
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You either check the “preserve color” option for each particle type (next to the “intense” checkbox in the emitter properties dialog), or you just render on black and composite in another application.
Alan.
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John — can you send me (at wondertouch support) a SMALL (10-frame) movie using the Cineform codec that will load in particleIllusion? Please make sure that it does load in particleIllusion before you send it.
Alan.
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Yes, particleIllusion 3 should be able to load ELC (combustion emitter library) files.
I’m not sure if the newer versions of combustion have made any changes to the ELC file format — you can use particleView (our free viewer app) to give it a try.
Alan.
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Mark — if you can send a short (10-frame) sample movie to support at wondertouch dot com we can check why you’re getting that error message. We’re beta testing an update (3.0.4 for Windows) right now, and it’s possible we’ve already fixed this.
Alan.
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If frameserver is crashing pIllusion, open your pIllusion prefs and uncheck the “use new method of loading AVIs” option. Or check it if it’s not.
See if that helps. Make sure you post your results here please.
Alan.
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Alan.
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First thing I’d try is restarting the computer.
Then I need to know if this is SE or 3.0. If 3.0, is the render happening inside pI3, or is pIRender being called? I’m going to assume that pIRender is being called, since it seems to be more problematic for people than pI3, especially when using hardware acceleration in pIRender. Going on this assumption:
1) Make sure pI3 is maximized (click the “maximize” button in the window titlebar to make it fill the entire desktop) before rendering. This gives the best chance of being able to render directly in pI3 and not having to call pIRender.
2) If you must use pIRender (output size is too big to fit in pI3), then run pIRender manually and check the Options. Uncheck “use hardware acceleration” if it’s checked and try again.
Alan.
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Both are identical. They both are lossless formats, so you have no loss in image quality.
TGA can use compression, and PNG uses compression, but they both use lossless compression (like a ZIP file).
I personally use PNG more than TGA because it typically results in smaller image sizes, but I use TGA too.
Alan.
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It’s still alive — we’ll be starting the beta test shortly. There will be prominent information on our website when the beta test starts to let you know how to join the test, and of course the info will be posted here too.
Alan.