Rochr opened this issue on Feb 03, 2006 ยท 37 posts
Rochr posted Fri, 03 February 2006 at 7:55 AM
Attached Link: http://dmytry.pandromeda.com/galaxy/index.html
A cool freeware app. Check it out. :)Rudolf Herczog
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bandolin posted Fri, 03 February 2006 at 8:17 AM
Tried it, doesn't work for me. All I get is a white screen. Sometimes when I move the window I get a flash of the galaxy, but then it turns all white again.
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Sans2012 posted Fri, 03 February 2006 at 8:37 AM
Well the examples look cool, but I cant even get it to run; it just flashes up and then disappears?? Rochr, did you use the "New" version or the "Old" version? Michael:)
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bandolin posted Fri, 03 February 2006 at 8:47 AM
I used both version and still got zip. :(
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<p><em>Caution: just a hobbyist</em></p>Sans2012 posted Fri, 03 February 2006 at 8:51 AM
You got the zip. file or it didnt do zip:) Michael;)
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bandolin posted Fri, 03 February 2006 at 9:00 AM
Not sure if you're being facetious here or not. So, to clarify, "It didn't do zip". I know its a double negative which implies that it did do something, but it didn't. All I get is a blank white window.
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drawbridgep posted Fri, 03 February 2006 at 9:10 AM
Works ok for me. But couldn't tell you why. I used the new version and run using the batch file rather than the exe.
Sans2012 posted Fri, 03 February 2006 at 9:26 AM
I was just joking bandolin:) I tried both the exe. and batch file with the same results:( Michael
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Quest posted Fri, 03 February 2006 at 9:40 AM
I get the blank white screen also. At one point, my system crashed and froze. Sounds like a great little progie to have. :(
rj001 posted Fri, 03 February 2006 at 9:46 AM
the images look good but i get major lock up, pity
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RobertJ posted Fri, 03 February 2006 at 10:19 AM
Works nicely, though a bit slow (you need a rather fast machine i guess).
Thanks for the head up. Edit: There are lots more of goodies on that site ^____^
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Rochr posted Fri, 03 February 2006 at 11:07 AM
Sorry to hear it doesnt work for some. :( Sans, i downloaded the new version. Worked well here, but it sounds like its one of those apps that work on one machine, but not the other, identical one. :)
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shinyary2 posted Fri, 03 February 2006 at 11:08 AM
Doesn't work for me either, so it's not just that you need a fast machine (I have 2.4Ghz and 1GB of RAM--though it could be my video card, I guess, that's not so hot: ATI Radeon 64MB).
bandolin posted Fri, 03 February 2006 at 11:24 AM
Its definitely not the machine: 3.2 Ghz P4 2 Gb Ram ATI X700 256Mb
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<p><em>Caution: just a hobbyist</em></p>Sans2012 posted Fri, 03 February 2006 at 11:31 AM
Yeah, I'm a little disappointed; it looks like a handy piece of software; it would go nice next to UIC. I even tried compatibility modes with no luck. I'm going to have another go; I cant just sit back and not even get the white screen:) Michael
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RobertJ posted Fri, 03 February 2006 at 11:43 AM
Not the machine i guess then, i have a 1.8 Ghz Athlon with a 1 gig of memory and a Gforce III with 64 mb. It works, not fast but it still works at around 10 to 11 frames per second. Running XP home (no SP2), no such things as compatibility modes and i did not copy that dll-file into the windows/system32 directory after i tried the program, and only after that you read the read_me wich reccomended to copy the SDL.dll (simple directmedia layer library) into your windows folder (windows/system32) :) BTW: Voxel World is way cool
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Sans2012 posted Fri, 03 February 2006 at 11:51 AM
no such things as compatibility modes: OK Robert! Try right clicking on some icons;) I tried it with and without the SDL.dll file; still without any luck. Michael
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rj001 posted Fri, 03 February 2006 at 12:19 PM
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electroglyph posted Fri, 03 February 2006 at 12:27 PM
Attached Link: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.aspx?url=/windows/directx/downloads/default.htm
Maybe you need to update DirectX
Erlik posted Fri, 03 February 2006 at 4:35 PM
I've got DirectX 9.0c and still just a white window.
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Rayraz posted Fri, 03 February 2006 at 5:37 PM
How did you guys get it to work??? I've tried this program many times and it never works. I figured it was prolly too old to still run in winXP or such. :-S
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Pedrith posted Fri, 03 February 2006 at 5:48 PM
Why can't they make these cool little programs and UIC for mac too :(
Warblade posted Fri, 03 February 2006 at 6:42 PM
Mine works Fine..Pretty cool! Rod.
PJF posted Fri, 03 February 2006 at 6:51 PM
Great find Rochr!
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foe posted Fri, 03 February 2006 at 8:21 PM
go ask dmytry over at the mojoworld forum.it's his stuff and he will gladly tell you about it.
Aldaron posted Sat, 04 February 2006 at 12:24 PM
For the people having trouble are you putting the .dll file in your windows system folder?
Erlik posted Sat, 04 February 2006 at 1:30 PM
Yup, and running the BAT too.
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Sans2012 posted Sat, 04 February 2006 at 10:49 PM
Smae ai Erlik;)
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Dmytry posted Sun, 05 February 2006 at 12:03 PM
Aha... (got there by link). It doesn't work on ATI cards, sorry :( Nothing to do with general system specs, just videocard and drivers. Try installing latest driver for your videocard, might help. It uses opengl for rendering, and nvidia is sorta better at opengl support. I only have GeForce FX 5200 and don't really know why it doesn't run on ATI videocards.
Maybe i'll try changing something. Strangely, with certain OpenGL drivers, sometimes little changes make it work or break it.
BTW you might find my mojoworld/volumetrics pages interesting.
Erlik posted Sun, 05 February 2006 at 12:22 PM
I've got GeForce 2 Ti, with drivers 71.89. Cannot use the latest ones, as they don't work with my card. But I have a GeForce Ti 4400 that's waiting to be installed. I'll see then cause Ti 4400 can use the latest drivers. But it's certainly weird. The current card with the current drivers worked with Mojoworld 3, Maya 7, Cinema 9.5, Rhino 4, DAZ Studio 1.2 with hardware OpenGL renderer, Bryce 5.5 with OpenGL view... Why not with Galaxy, I wonder.
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Dmytry posted Sun, 05 February 2006 at 2:28 PM
mostly because i don't have different hardware to test it on & there seems to be something that some drivers don't support. I can try using basic openGL calls only (with drop in performance) so it will work on more cards.
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Rayraz posted Sun, 05 February 2006 at 4:11 PM
oh that explains. I have ATI cards.. lol
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Rayraz posted Sun, 05 February 2006 at 4:15 PM
mojopages are VERY interesting btw ;) I think I'll have to save up to upgrade to the newest version of mojoworld some time....
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Erlik posted Sun, 05 February 2006 at 4:34 PM
As I said, weird. It works now. It should have done it from the beginning. I mean, why not? All the latest apps and their OpenGL stuff work. Pity you cannot export the image.
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Erlik posted Sun, 05 February 2006 at 4:43 PM
PS. Nice work with the volumetric plugin for Mojoworld. Especially that snowy mountain(s) with clouds. I'm definitely trying that out. :-)
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Dmytry posted Mon, 06 February 2006 at 5:07 AM
BTW, does "klein bottle" thingy work for you all? might help me figure out what is the problem.
Pedrith posted Mon, 06 February 2006 at 3:47 PM
Hey Dmytry you would be willing to port this over so mac people can use this too? The pictures look really sweet.