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DerLandvogt

01-06-2005, 09:20 AM

Hi
Has anyone made the tutorial "guided_missile_trails"?
I tried last night....but Max slows down intensivly after using "by travel distance" in the Spawn test. If I move the timeslider just one frame, the systemCPU goes up to 100%. Is that normal? I use MAX7 on a Windows PC with 3.2 ghz and 1GB RAM. And an ATI X800 Graphic card. Where is the problem?

oh man....I hate such problems.
Thanks for every help!

hilmar

Max-Realms

01-21-2005, 05:24 PM

you prolly need a larger page(swap) file. when it starts to render, look at thre render information dialogue and see what the numbers are by P and V, V is virtual memory. if it's really huge, then that MAY be your issue.

DerLandvogt

01-24-2005, 07:41 AM

HI

I didnt render the scene. Just wanted to see the animation in the viewport and moved the timeslider.

rodrigogua

01-24-2005, 11:11 PM

maybe your having your particles spawn more than one (maybe several) particles each frame. if the particle system is huge, it will slow down your computer.

feanor

02-04-2005, 09:44 AM

Every time when you change settings, PFlow make refresh. If you drag a spinner to change a value, PFlow refresh several times (for PFlow you make several changes). Progress of refresh may see at bottom Status line on MAX. It' s very discomfortable for work.
Usually I put a Cache operator after Render, with Manual refresh.

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