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From: menzies@CAM.ORG (Stephen Menzies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Problems with Imagine
Message-ID: <1990Dec28.065429.28287@CAM.ORG>
Date: 28 Dec 90 06:54:29 GMT
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menzies@CAM.ORG (Stephen Menzies) writes:

>rnollman@maxzilla.encore.com (Richard Nollman) writes:

>>I recently bought an A3000 and Imagine.  My first experience with

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>>or so created the 30 frames.  When it was done, I tried to run the
>>animation (according to the directions in the manual).  The screen
>>went black, and that was it.  I had to reboot.  I never saw any

>	The most obvious possibilities are 1) you don't have any lights
>	in your setup. Either add a light in the STAGE Editor or Add an
>	Object via the ACTION EDITOR (btw, I in the above paragraphs I
>	mistakenly refered to the Action Editor as the Stage Editor) and
>	pick "light source". I wouldn't get fancy here, just accept the 
>	defaults or 2) your objects have no attributes (color info etc).
>	If this is the case, reload your object(s) into the Detail Editor
>	and provide them with Attributes and save them.(Its not neccessary
>	to reload them into the Stage Editor) or 3) your Camera was not
>	directed towards the objects (remmber to select, Camera view) or
>	4) you're having problems with the numerous types of rendering
>	or sizes 5) you're not using version 1.0.

		In an afterthought it occurred to me that your "Ambient"
	light may have been left at it's default, 0,0,0. You can check
	this by clicking on the Global channel in the Action Editor. If
	it can help, I usually set the RGB values anywhere from 45,45,45
	to 80,80,80 and in certain cases where I want a "clearer"
	transparency I may go over 100. Ofcourse you can also vary the
	values to give a colored ambient light. In is possible to have
	a black screen if the Ambient is 0,0,0 and certainly if the
	light source is set to "diminish"  and is too far from subject.
		BTW, you will find Impulse very helpful if you call them
	on their 800 number. Also another very good resource is the
	TurboSIG Bulletin , a monthly 8 page bulletin covering Turbo
	Silver and now Imagine and 3D in general. The bulletin is
	full of short articles, tips, interviews,info. I have always
	found something new for me each month. CONTACT:

		The TurboSIG-Victor Osaka
		1341 Ocean Ave. #349
		Santa Monica, CA. 90401
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-steve
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>Stephen Menzies
>Email: S.Menzies@CAM.ORG
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Stephen Menzies
Email: S.Menzies@CAM.ORG