Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/gallery.ez?ByArtist=Yes&Artist=Vornado%5FEOD

"An unexpected error has occured (generic failure)." I constructed the picture in the following link but when I was finished and tried saving I got the above error. I had saved previous "not finished" versions of the scene with no problem. In fact I even went back to a saved version and completed the final scene again...only to get the same error when saving. There are allot of textures involved...is this a file size problem? Anyone get the same error before? Please help?

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=68515&Start=1&Artist=allengraph&ByArtist=Yes

I had the same problem with one of my files...it saved ok but the next day I tryed to open it and got an error.also bryce 5 seems to have a slugish interface when you have to many objects compaired to all the other versions.I'm sure they'll fix the problem in the next update...I Hope

Sorry to be OT, but I just love that error message! I s'pose the benign version would be : "This error is to be expected when you use this function - don't worry, be happy!" Sorry again, I love Bryce - honest ;-)

A little more ON topic - I've sometimes circumvented over-bloated files by saving a massive scene in parts: - Open the total scene, delete, say, half the objects, and save as halfscene1 - Open the total scene, delete the other half and save as halfscene2 Then, when working/rendering open half1 and open/merge with half2 to get your total scene into Bryce. Silly way to work, but it DOES work. Good luck.

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I once got the error "Your model looks silly and I won't be caught dead rendering it." followed by a microsoft cop telling me I did something illegal "Illegal operation, you have moved your mouse. Please reboot for Windoze changes to take effect."

I got the same error trying to see how many trees I could put in a scene. I had twenty or so on the screen. Halfway through the render, the same message popped up. Alas, I had not saved. I haven't tried to repeat the error. Pesky life gets in the way and keeps me from spending as much time on the computer as I want. Bryce always has been a little uptight once the scene gets above a hundred Meg or so. The limit is always a little different foir each scene, but I usually think about saving often when the machine starts grinding on the hard drive.

Vornado...I got that error a couple days ago on a save. Through the process of elimination I traced it to a specific TIF with an alpha channel I was using as a texture. I couldn't find anything about that TIF that was different from others I was using (that also had an alpha channel, used the same compression method and were saved out of the same program). I did send it to Corel (I'm a beta tester) so they can figure it out. I've done literally dozens and dozens of scenes with Bryce 5 and only ran into it that one time. Spit

this is a documented bug by beta testers. It is being investigated. I am currently working on isolating a "recipe" to reproduce it easily. I do not believe it is image map related, but instead related to groups of trees or specifically editing a tree within that group(like the notorious "object not found" error within bryce 3+) still getting info... BT