Hi guys ive had a bit of a break from krakatoa and picked it up again to do a university project i have been given a .prt file that a buddy made up. but when i use the prt loader and try to render it say . prt file does nt exist. any help would be appreciated as the file is definately in the real world lol as its on my hard drive in my prt file folder. the prt paticles dont even show up in my viewport. wierd
thanks again
DJ
Is it a ‘single frame’ type file (not a sequence) but not set to 'load single frame only? (or something similar along those lines?)
As JClarke suggested, if the file that was picked does NOT contain a frame number, the PRT Loader will attempt to give it one by default.
So if you picked a file called “c:\temp\partitions\particles.prt”, PRT Loader will normally try to load “c:\temp\partitions\particles0000.prt” on frame 0, “c:\temp\partitions\particles0042.prt” on frame 42 and so on. If these don’t exist, it will fail.
To disable this file sequence behavior, you have to either check “Load Single Frame Only” or rename the file to “c:\temp\partitions\particles0000.prt” and set the “Limit To Custom Range” to Start:0 End:0 to force the reloading of the file 0000 on every frame. (The latter approach is useful if you intend to do dynamic stuff using Magma, because “Single Frame Only” caches the particles and an animated Magma modifier would not update the viewports correctly).