DarkSkills opened this issue on Sep 13, 2005 ยท 24 posts
Jackson posted Wed, 14 September 2005 at 11:33 AM
Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?Form.ShowMessage=2400116
I posted this same message in the linked thread. Can someone figure a solution?:: Something similar happens to me with P6 SR1, but it's not after saving; it's after a render. After about an hour or so working in a scene--without adding or switching anything--P6 will begin to slow substantially. After that amount of time, I will have done several test renders. Then, all of a sudden, I do another test render, come back to the preview window, and almost everything is gone! Some of the scene props will still be there and maybe a hair prop, but everything else is gone. The characters are still listed in the drop-down but they are not there. Without saving, I check the file sizes of the pz3 and pmd. What used to be 7 or 8 meg files are now about a half meg in size. (I had done several saves before this happened.) Apparantly, P6 was saving the files while it was destroying them. NOTE: Each time the scenes were small. Two lightly injected mil characters and a few scene props. I've learned not to do anything larger in P6. It happened three times to me. I've had to completely re-do everything. I've never had this happen in P6 before SR1. Neither has it happened in P5, P4, or P4 with ProPack. I have a dual-pentium zeon, 1 gig o' ram, 350 gig HD machine. --------------------------- Since that time, another anomoly has cropped up... Expression settings stop working. The dials are there with their respective numbers, but the expression on the character is blank. The face shape morphs still work. Also, switching to the left, right or front cameras sometimes zeros the character. All the work I'd done posing is gone. All this in P6 SR1. ============================= Sept 14 update: In that thread, Dizzi suggested disabling PMDs. I tried it and it seemed to work with the corrupt files. I haven't tested it very thoroughly though--I'm a little gun shy of P6 right now. P4/ProPack is still the only version of Poser I can count on to work properly.