Forum: Carrara


Subject: Sphere of Attraction Lock up

Runelord opened this issue on Jan 01, 2000 ยท 6 posts


Runelord posted Sat, 01 January 2000 at 11:15 AM

My system locks up when I try to use the Sphere of Attraction tool in RDS 5.5 on a poser 4 model that I imported. Let me explain. I open RDS and then select open file. I go to the poser 4 directory poser4runtimegeometriesP4NudeWoman. Then select P4NudeWom.obj After deleting those parts I don't want, I jump in the mesh form modeler from here. All other tools seem to work corectly, but when I select Sphere of Attraction, I lock up. I haven't tried with any other wavefront objects. If I create the mesh in RDS, it works fine. Is RDS just busy or messed up.


ClintH posted Sat, 01 January 2000 at 2:48 PM

Runelord, I Imported the P4NudeWoman file into RDS./ Jumped into the Mesh Form Modeler and selected Sphere of Attraction and didnt have any problems. It brought my system to its knees. Very slow response. I'm on a PII 450 with 256mb RAM and a TNT1 16mb AGP video card...Windows 98 SE. Have you tried to see if the system is just busy by waiting a little bit? I selected a Vertex then Sphere of Attraction and it took about 10-20 seconds before RDS reacted. Let me know. Clint

Clint Hawkins
MarketPlace Manager/Copyright Agent



All my life I've been over the top ... I don't know what I'm doing ... All I know is I don't wana stop!
(Zakk Wylde (2007))



Runelord posted Sat, 01 January 2000 at 4:21 PM

ClintH, Yup, tried that. Let is sit for a few hours and it was still locked up. I'm running a PII 333, 192mb RAM, with a GlyerMax2 8mb video card. I may have to check my BIOS settings or maybe re-install RDS. At least I know the process works, just not on my machine. Thanks


ClintH posted Sat, 01 January 2000 at 6:57 PM

Your very welcome. Clint

Clint Hawkins
MarketPlace Manager/Copyright Agent



All my life I've been over the top ... I don't know what I'm doing ... All I know is I don't wana stop!
(Zakk Wylde (2007))



Hokusai posted Sun, 02 January 2000 at 1:37 PM

A problem I hadwith the RDS mesh form modeler was that when you work on a very small model- such as the poser figs in a zoomed windo, and select a shpere of attractioon at default size it hangs up. Metacreation were unable to reperduce this, and it cleared wup when I got a new video card so maybe it has to do with fact I was using a Diamond Fire Gl 1000. A work arround was to zoom out, select shpere of attraction, make it 0.01 inches and THEN zoom back in. "phil" Hokusai


Runelord posted Sun, 02 January 2000 at 4:53 PM

That did the trick Hokusai(Phil). Thanks. Looks like its time for a new video card. Been wanting to get a new one anyway. :)