[James Harris]

As PI uses the image on the screen to render the output then the image on your screen has to be the FULL size that you want to output. You should open the stage up as big as you can and select zoom to 100% and none of your image should be ‘missing’. Then you can render out full size.

Because the resolution you are getting is an odd number it sounds just like the problem I had recently and so the answer above should work. If your screen resolution is too small you can use the stand alone renderer, which is in there somewhere.

After this you will re-read the help file and find it was in there all along, just the same as I did!! (The Offset function in PI is still a PIG however!)

James

[James Harris]

mmmmm OK I’ve searched the forum and found the answer – well bug – in the bug list..

James

[James Harris]

Hi Alan

It is a number of scene clips as you thought. Here is the background as an avi.

https://www.dibble.demon.co.uk/PI/background.avi

Many thanks

James

[James Harris]

Hi

Hopefully you will be able to claw the following file from the Internet:

https://www.dibble.demon.co.uk/PI/play%201.ip3

You should be able to replicate the following:
1 Open it
2 Don’t look for the background and accept its removal
3 Go directly to frame 302
4 Try to add an emitter! It appears on the left but no ‘Bullseye’
5 Go to frame 1
6 Try to add an emitter – It works

Any ideas?

James

[James Harris]

Thanks Elvis

I suspect that mostly it doesn’t matter but I always seem to choose the application where it does!

It’s working great now.

James

[James Harris]

Thanks Alan – I’m off to have a play!

James

[James Harris]

Thanks Alan

I would not have thought to use Number as Life seemed more appropriate but now I’m wondering why I thought that!

The green bit is misleading as my particles are green! I’ve just reloaded the program and the green blob is now no longer there until the emitter has fired once – then it remains for the whole animation. Reducing the Life percentage to zero gets rid of it (and everything else) Increasing life makes it longer. No matter I will either sort it or use your number method!

James

[James Harris]

I am running PI on my 64 Bit XP machine. It runs perfectly, but as a 32 Bit program.

If you mean is there a 64 Bit version of PI – I’d like to know too!

James

[James Harris]

Thanks Guys! Much appreciated.

Elvis – that worked as you expected, I also had a look at some previous posts which were essentially the same question/answer apologies for the repetition!

Alan – also a good suggestion – I’ll try it as I don’t want the file size to get out of hand as I’m going from C4D to PI to Paintshop – then to Premiere. If too many programs pump up the file size it’ll be out of control!!

James

[James Harris]

Ah yes,

The output .tiff file sizes are about 8 times the size of the input .tiffs. How does that happen? I ticked yes to compression.

James