Play Crash

oatz · August 20, 2012, 3:02am

I can reproduce this 100%, Frost 1.3.0.47387, 3ds Max 2013 PU4

Create a plane at 0,0,0, with dimensions 100x100
Set segments to 32
Add Noise modifier, Scale 5.0, Z: 5.0 Animate: Checked.
Create Frost, choose Plane as Particle Object
Switch Meshing to Geometry
Switch Particle Geometry from Plane to Sphere.
Press Play…Crash.

It doesn’t happen when scrubbing the time slider, only when hitting the play button.

Bobo · August 20, 2012, 4:05am

Confirmed.
It appears that the Animated Noise mod. is the necessary condition…

Thank you very much for the report and for the precise steps!

oatz · August 20, 2012, 3:59pm

Glad you tracked it down…

Couldou do me a favor and try to render that sequence? I can render iterative no problem, but when i try to render 0-100 production, it says, "Error Allocating mesh. Insufficient memory available for: Frost 001 Reduce the face count to render this scene.

I have 8GB free and it takes nothing to render the iterative.

When I disable the animated noise modifier, I can render production as intended. I assume the problems are related.

paul · August 20, 2012, 8:04pm

Thank you for your excellent bug report!

This should be fixed in the next Frost release. Yes, that rendering problem seems to be related, and it should be fixed too. I assume this is affecting your work, or it is a priority for you?

oatz · August 21, 2012, 1:18am

Just some R&D stuff, not pressing.

oatz · August 29, 2012, 2:59pm

Any ETA on an update release?

paul · August 29, 2012, 4:20pm

Sorry! I’ll post an update later today at http://www.thinkboxsoftware.com/frost-downloads/beta-releases/