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Thanks Larry-

I must say I don't get this-- let me think-- you're using P5?

This is a message that did appear once in the grey, long- lost past when I hadn't yet fully implemented the ECII lights, and partly worked with standard lights in P5 (which is why the program warns you of "strange, non-EC lights"!)

OK- try this:

Before using a lightset- UNLESS IT CONSISTS TOTALLY OF ECII-created sets ONLY! (Bounce, Sun, Sky), go to module "READER", and click on "CHECK". If it tells you the Environment is "OK", you should be safe. If you get the question whether you want to DELETE or ADAPT, always choose either DELETE or ADAPT ALL (if that one is an option, otherwise choose ADAPT)

If you now go to module SunDial, ALWAYS click on CORRECT when asked.

On opening, go to the prefs menu and THERE select "START"(it is below the menu item "REGISTER CHECK ON") If you misclicked and it says "REGISTER CHECK OFF", reclick it to set it back to ON.

In other words, go the save route and don't click on the blue message you see first when SunDial starts, but go to the menu.

If SunDial now goes to work, you should be 100% OK- your message, especially the crashing, sounds like a P5- memory problem to me. Possibly you did many renders before, or worked the program hard, had too little RAM perhaps? I don't know, just guessing. On the other hand, "Abnormal program ending" is a Python P4-message, so I'm totally at a loss here.

I've tried to reproduce the problem on different machines here, and utterly failed to make ECII crash- unless I moved, in P4, ECII's window WHILE Poser was still rendering- but I warn of that in the "basics" helpfile.

Let me know if something happens, I will keep on looking into the strange happenings at your computer ...

PS- you must have TK8.3- make sure you have the latest patches applied!

By the way- checkout the ECII freebie at my site

http.www.pcbos.nl
follow link "Poser"
Cheers!

Paul Christiaan