iMac + AM 10.5 = Kaboom!

#1

This will not only reveal how much of a newbie I am with this app, but how I really need to be pointed to all the sources to try finding answers myself before I bother you good folks.

I have an iMac, 1ghz, 768mb RAM, 360mb devoted to AM 10.5 (leaving room for the cache).

I’ve gotten the idea from David Rogers’ book as well as from the instruction manual that the button the app calls “render” allows you to take a small piece of the choreography image with a marquis which I assume I draw after selecting the button (though it doesn’t say this anywhere; I saw the guy at the DV Expo do it).

So I open the program (CD copy protection, right? Or is my computer getting picky?). I place a model in the choreography window. A wireframe shortly appears. I zoom in to the head. I push the “render” button. I draw a marquis close in around the face. The app crashes. The simpler the model, the faster it appears in the window, and the faster it crashes. What gives?

Also, after the install, I found on the desktop an alias of an HTML help page. I figured I didn’t need no stinking aliases, that I’d find the orignal. So I threw out the alias. And of course, I can’t find the original. What’s it called?

P.S. I already sent the crash question to support@hash.com, but I figured I’d broaden my horizons. Besides, I have a feeling I’d not like to wear out the Hash guy too soon!

#2

well first bump the ram up to 500 at least.

second check to be sure you have the latest 10.5b released on monday.

I’m fairly certain that the HTML help is found on the CD-ROM, but I have a dongle and haven’t had a cd in ages.

Hope this helps,

-David Rogers

#3

Also, disable virtual memory. The alias does indeed point to the CD but its better to grab the latest 10.5 help from here:
www.hash.com/htmlhelp/v10.5.zip

Mats

#4

Are you running OSX or OSX classic mode? AM doesn’t like classic mode.

Run OS9.x and you should be fine. OSX version is going to be in public alpha soon.

  • pjc
#5

I run in classic without any problems. I’m too lazy to boot back and forth and all my other apps are osX so I deal with the slow down in bones mode. but that’s really the only trouble I have.

-David Rogers

#6

Then I’m stuck! :annoyed: I’m running OS 10.2, “Panther,” which was not bundled with a full version of OS 9. (I can hardly wait to see what OS 10.3 isn’t bundled with.) I would eagerly assist Hash in bug-checking that alpha, if I were not at the foothills of the learning curve. It also occurs to me that the guy at the Hash demo will have some 'splainin to do at MacWorld NYC today and, more to the point since I’m going, tomorrow! I will go easy on him, since after all, I put of the OS X leap for the same two years. Oh well…:shrug:

P.S. No such animal as Virtual Memory in OS X (unless I missed something) but thanks anyway, all of y’all.

P.P.S. The only real value of the alias of the 10.5 HTML help that I threw away was the name of the “index” page. I had all the pages safe and sound. I just sleuthed a little and found it. You can all sleep soundly now.

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