I was loading a small sample (7000) of particles into a PRT Loader, and duplicating the loader 5 times with small offsets. Whenever I’d move them each one would pop up the message about no ID or Index which may result in inconsistent behavior followed by a second pop up that escapes me. They seem to be popping up with each redraw or something similar so moving them would start a seemingly endless volley of popup messages bringing workflow to a complete halt. Can we have a checkbox to suppress this message?
Khye
We are aware of this problem and my proposal yesterday while driving away from the Siggraph expo was to simply remove it.
The message was supposed to appear ONLY when you pick a new PRT Loader - if the PRT Loader does not have a valid ID channel and you want to play back an animation, results can be unexpected. Unfortunately, the PFlow operator receives some messages from the PRT Loader that make it think it has changed when it has not. In the old File Birth and Update operators it appeared when you selected a file from disk, so it was easy to know when to show it.
We will either track what node is assigned and only pop up the warning when the object REALLY changed, move the message to a text field within the operator’s UI so you are always conscious of the state of your incoming stream, or remove the message completely.
Sorry for the inconvenience, we will have this fixed for the final release.