[Joseph M. morgan]

OK… I think I got it… thanks.

[Joseph M. morgan]

Boy do I feel dumb… it was the plane… I got it in my head that the circle would have to be certain way… and it never dawned on my to do it another way….

Joe

[Joseph M. morgan]

Boy would that have been embarrasing… But… yes, I’m running the 64 bit exe.

I did figure out the serials writing thing… turns out in Vista (new to me), you have to explicitly tell some programs to run in Administrator mode.

I think I’m going to go after HP support first, as it seems to be more of a Vista/NVidia thing… I’ll keep you guys posted in the event someone else runs into the problem.

Joe

[Joseph M. morgan]

Oh wow! This doesn’t look good. I am truely hoping you have the answer I seek here.

My old 3.2ghz HT XP system is goinig to the retirement home after yet another failed monitor. Since it is out of warranty, I did a bit of research and read about how well Cinema 4D runs on AMD 64 bit with Windows 64 bit Ultimate. So I shelled out the money for the AMD 64 Bit Dual Core and Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit…. and guess what? Cinema 4D doesn’t run on it at ALL! 32 bit nor 64 bit.

Much to my surprise, after installing it, entering my serials, and carefully closing the program, I find it cannot save something regarding the serials, and I have to enter them into the 64 bit version every single time. The 32 bit version took the serials just fine, but cannot process even a simple spline.

In my system, it actually seems to have something to do with the NVidia driver, and I did some research to find that there are thousands of folks, mostly in gaming forums, having trouble with 3D video drivers and Windows Vista. At first, my search was just about the NVidia driver but I came across some people having trouble with their ATI drivers and vista.

So, does anyone (you) have a solution? I can run After Effects just fine (so far), and my other graphics programs. It seems to vomit at 3D. I honestly don’t think it is Cinema 4D (except the 64 bit version not saving the serials). I think it has something to do with Vista and 3D Graphic rendering. However, since I’m using 4D… if anyone has the tweak, then I’d sure like to hear it.

Things I’ve done:

1) Ran a memory scan to ensure my memory is working OK.
2) Ran a heat check to ensure my computer isn’t heating up.
3) Made sure I have enough disk space (145GB of it free)
4) Ensured I have the latest drivers
5) Registered Cinema 4D into the NVidia driver (but it doesn’t keep the profile for some reason).

System Configuration (good enough for what I do and can afford, so you Voodoo guys leave me alone 🙂 )

HP Pavillion 9000z (customized)
AMD Turion Dual Core 64Bit 2.2GHz
Windows Vista Ultimate 64Bit version
SVGA+ graphics
NVidia 6500 GO (I know, I know)
2GB Ram (I know, I know)
240GB HD

I use this laptop machine for general design and assembly, then I have a desktop for rendering. The thing is, the desktop is an AMD Athalon 64Bit machine running Windows XP 32 bit, and 4D cranks away with no problems.

Any help, advice, general research, or location of a witch doctor would be appreciated.

Thanks
Joseph M Morgan

[Joseph M. morgan]

Looks like this is the way to go…

Thanks.
Joe

[Joseph M. morgan]

So if I deform the plane in the same way as a net would normally sag under gravity, this should work, right?

Is Clothilde and Cloth module the same thing?

I’ve never used either… nor a sub-poly displacement as best as I know… so, in the interest of learning, I’ll look into them both.

Joe

[Joseph M. morgan]

Don’t ask why or how… but I copied the poly to an empty project, and it started acting normally…. So I edited the object there…. and pasted it back into the bigger project.

So I must have hit a key combo or clicked on something that got stuff stuck in some kind of way… I don’t know….

Anyway… if anyone has an idea of what I may have done… please let me know…

Thanks to whole herd…

[Joseph M. morgan]

So… will there by any depth to the net other than possibly a bump map of nylon rope in a mixed texture?

What I’m getting at is… if we do get close, or at a 90% angle, will it disappear?

Joe

[Joseph M. morgan]

Actually… right now, once I figured out how to use the selection object, it is the way I’m doing it… however, later… I’m thinking I want to use XPresso.

However, let me ask… is there a way to do what I do in After Effects (I think I’ve seen your name there)? That is, in AE, I can put arbitrary controls (sliders, etc) on something and then connect properties (or property expressions) to it. I was hoping for something more like that… that is… something more like a dimmer switch, on-off switch, etc.

Joe

[Joseph M. morgan]

Thanks… I figured it out about 10 seconds after my last post to you. Funny how the simplest things are the most difficult to figure out.

I had actually played with it in the early stages of me trying to figure out a solution… but gave up quickly because I didn’t know to punch the little button. 🙂

Joe