Particle emitters start too late

Hi, I have custom particle emitters that just won't start earlier than frame 4218. They ignore on-keys in the timeline if the keys are placed earlier than frame 4218. It seems that the emitters got corrupted somehow when they were stored along with the project. That should be fixed. Anyway, any help on how to fix the emitters would be highly appreciated. I attached a buggy example emitter. Maybe you can tell by its data what went wrong.

Cheers,
Burkhard

Hi zuijlen

Thanks for the info. A bit reluctant to upgrade drivers on video cards at the mo as I have read a lot of folks saying BSOD. My son is an I.T. Manager so I got him to have a look we were only able to move it slightly further away but fingers crossed just tried the particle I used earlier and no horrible noise which leaves me scrambling to hit buttons to stop it. I suppose time will tell again thanks for the info.

Duchess Designs Store 

Hi, the material C285A_Violet_Casual_B_Upper.iMtl isn't entirely transparent where it should be. The reason is that the opacity map doesn't have the RGB value (0,0,0) for the black parts but (8,8,6). This will be particularly noticable when using a depth of field effect, then you can see the clone cloth.
Workaround: Select the opacity map and raise the contrast to maximum.

Cheers,
Burkhard

Duchess, is this noise part of the audio generated by iClone? That is, do you still hear it when you render to video? If so, there is a direct iClone-related problem. Or do particles have sound effects now? :w00t:

Otherwise, there may be some interference between the sound card and the video card. You can try to place it in another slot, as far away from the video card as possible. This means opening the computer though... :unsure: A simpler thing to try first is updating the video driver.

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I do not use particles all that often but have noticed the past few times that when I have them in a scene and click play I get a terrible feedback shorting buzzing sort of sound.

My sound system is Creative SB X-Fi with the latest updates drivers etc.

Duchess Designs Store 

It seems like billboards (only billboards) "inherits" :) DOF-blur from other objects. Is it bug or feature? :)

Thanks in advance!

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Igor

I think this has to be one of the coolest "bug" reports posted that I've ever seen!

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I'm using iClone to letterbox its own previous video output and export for online video hosting.

I feed the video to the diffuse texture of a plane in the new project and transcode the scene to MP4.

The problem is that the video playback in the plane halts halfway through during the export step.

The entire video can be viewed (on a hit-or-miss basis; isn't always responsive), by moving the project timeline cursor.

The original video size is 11Mb.

General Picture - animating now to life itself(tm)
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Dear Support,

iClone is very unstable on my system. I am not sure if others have experienced this problem or not, but as soon as the scene gets to a certain level of complexity OR there are more than a couple of avatars, iClone will hang. I am doubtful that it is my PC system as everything works fine until one of the two mentioned conditions is reached. I have listed my PC specs below, just in case there are any known hardware instabilities.

PC Specs
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Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate
CPU Type: 4x2666 MHz
System Memory:    6,135 MB
Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295
RAID Controller:    Intel(R) ICH8R/ICH9R/ICH10R/DO SATA RAID Controller
Main Disk Drive:    SSD Drives - 119 GB Total - 2 in RAID 0 Array
Monitor:       DELL 3007WFP 30" running at 2,560 x 1,600

Installed Product : iClone4 PRO Edition
Installed Version : 4.12.1313

Note: In the following picture all I was doing was testing out different textures on different avatars and iClone got stuck on "Please Wait...". Interestingly when I try and kill iClone with Task Manager, it actually responds asking me whether or not I want to save the project (Yes, No or Cancel). Pressing any of these buttons still goes back to "Please Wait...". This happens with or without trial content.

PS: Reading some of the other issues I also have the move gizmo disappearing until I restart issue.


This is VERY frustrating!