[Paul Boland]

Hi Alan.

Thanks for the reply. I have my drivers up to date, ATI Radion card which I’m not mad about but that’s what the laptop came with. I can still use Particle Illusions, just annoying the way the screen redraw gets messed up but I can restore it when it happens and it outputs my videos just fine.

Thanks.

[Paul Boland]

Thanks, Alan, that works great :)!!

[Paul Boland]

Hi Alan.

The bad thing about text-based communication is that you can’t read the tone in which they were written, but reading your reply above you sound put out by my question. that was definitely not my intent.

You have to look at it from a Particle Illusions users point of view… We use to get monthly new emitters. After GenArts bought you, those libraries started to falter on their releases. Initially it was just a few montly releases here and there and then it became seasonal releases but the last release was August. As a long time user, all I wanted to know was what was happening?

I appreciate all you’ve said in your reply. 3000+ emitters! WOW!! It’s great to have them and I do appreciate all the time and effort you (Particle Illusions) put into making them. And yes, I do look at all the emitters and use them where needed.

But as a long time user all I wanted was an answer as to what was happening? From my perspective, we had monthly emitter releases and after Genarts bought the company those releases faltered with no feedback from the company as to what was happening. And that is all I was after.

If indeed the emitter libraries have reached saturation and you want to cut back the releases of new libraries to one a year or whatever, or even stop them, then all I want is to be informed. Give a company release and let us know what’s happening and that will take care of that.

You asked for suggestions on what would be a better use of your (Particle Illusions) time instead of releasing emitters into an already saturated library?

Well, speaking for myself, I like the idea of tutorials. I would be interested in learning how to create my own emitters. Also, a long time back there was news of Particle Illusions 4. Don’t get me wrong, I love Particle Illusions 3, LOVE IT!!, but if a new 4.0 version was released, I would upgrade.

So, I’ll close here. Thanks for the reply and I’m sorry if I put you out with my query, it was not my intension.

[Paul Boland]

I remember that. But the last emitter release was August, we’re overdue some new ones. Where are the autumn and winter emitters? We use to get them every month, it was fantastic!, but since the company was bought out those free month emitter libraries have disappeared :(.

[Paul Boland]

Thanks for the reply, Alan. I hope my reply goes up here ok… You said we can scroll the work area in Particle Illusions. I’m using the full version but I don’t see any scrollbars or way to scroll around the work area. How do I do this?

[Paul Boland]

Thanks, Kurt. I’ll be patient.

[Paul Boland]

Thanks, Alan.

[Paul Boland]

Hi.

Just saw this topic. What’s going on??? Are we going to be getting our monthly free emitters as usual or has this ended now that the merger has taken place? An update on the situation would be welcome.

[Paul Boland]

Thanks for the update, Alan.

[Paul Boland]

That’s it :)!!! I know I read this in the documentation somewhere but I can’t for the life of me, find it. Thanks for the reminder.