Post by vrman3d on May 3, 2005 11:58:49 GMT 1
Hi Walaber and Kjelle69!
I'm using your serializer utility a lot for terrains and objects. After selecting an .x file to serialize, before the second dialog appears, very often it goes into some endless loop that it never recovers from, and then other times (on objects with lotsa polys I think) it just exits before finishing. I spend a lot of time hitting ctrl-alt-delete and killing off the process that is hung and using 99% cpu.
I can send you objects to test this with if you'd like, or you can just make them yourself to see what I mean: in 3dsmax, create a quad patch 8x8, edit mesh, select all the verts, add a noise modifier and crank up the z. Save it as a 3ds, convert it to a .x (I still use Microsoft's Conv3DS, since it handles lots of different types). Sometimes just moving the entire terrain object up/down a few units causes the serializer to go into endless loop mode. Try creating a patch with 15x15 dimensions (16200 polys) and serializing it, it just exits for me.
Do you think you could add some sort of progress bar to the program to indicate if it's still going, or if it's stuck? Or better yet, figure out what causes the crashes hee hee. I still think even with the bugs gone, that a progress bar would be nice though.
I really appreciate the fine support you guys give for your excellent free products! Keep up the good work. And hopefully very soon I'll have some cool stuff to show off your wrapper with. (3 separate projects going)
Best regards,
-=VRMan=-
I'm using your serializer utility a lot for terrains and objects. After selecting an .x file to serialize, before the second dialog appears, very often it goes into some endless loop that it never recovers from, and then other times (on objects with lotsa polys I think) it just exits before finishing. I spend a lot of time hitting ctrl-alt-delete and killing off the process that is hung and using 99% cpu.
I can send you objects to test this with if you'd like, or you can just make them yourself to see what I mean: in 3dsmax, create a quad patch 8x8, edit mesh, select all the verts, add a noise modifier and crank up the z. Save it as a 3ds, convert it to a .x (I still use Microsoft's Conv3DS, since it handles lots of different types). Sometimes just moving the entire terrain object up/down a few units causes the serializer to go into endless loop mode. Try creating a patch with 15x15 dimensions (16200 polys) and serializing it, it just exits for me.
Do you think you could add some sort of progress bar to the program to indicate if it's still going, or if it's stuck? Or better yet, figure out what causes the crashes hee hee. I still think even with the bugs gone, that a progress bar would be nice though.
I really appreciate the fine support you guys give for your excellent free products! Keep up the good work. And hopefully very soon I'll have some cool stuff to show off your wrapper with. (3 separate projects going)
Best regards,
-=VRMan=-
