Forum: Bryce

Subject: Anyone got this Bryce 5 error yet?

Vornado_EOD opened this issue on Jul 23, 2001 ยท 9 posts

Vornado_EOD posted Mon, 23 July 2001 at 10:36 AM

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?

allengraph posted Mon, 23 July 2001 at 12:27 PM

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

thip posted Mon, 23 July 2001 at 2:00 PM

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 ;-)

thip posted Mon, 23 July 2001 at 2:05 PM

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.

Vornado_EOD posted Mon, 23 July 2001 at 5:37 PM

nt

EricofSD posted Mon, 23 July 2001 at 10:03 PM

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."

douglaslamoureaux posted Mon, 23 July 2001 at 11:18 PM

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.

Spit posted Tue, 24 July 2001 at 11:58 AM

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

brycetech posted Wed, 25 July 2001 at 12:26 AM

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