Stargate universe: Valhalla Station

[StangCody]

update. here is my progress as of last night before I crashed.

[-=sAs=-]

oh my.....
Very nice

[StangCody]

well...... now I'm starting to get irritated. The error reappeared, and where before I could just delete the offending element this time it managed to infect the whole part. so all the progress of the last three days is lost. I have never had this error occur on any other project. ever.... and now it's practically shut me down. If it does this again I may have to completely restart the project.

[liam887]

gutted!, can you export the model into another prgramme? or maybe re-install your software?

[-Raynor-]

Completely restart the project?! Makes me somewhat worried...

[StangCody]

Originally Posted by liam887

gutted!, can you export the model into another prgramme? or maybe re-install your software?

Not sure how it would help. Like I said I've had projects far beyond this poly count, with more advanced materials, and far more complicated lights without a single problem. Even when I did have an error code it wasn't something this obscure. The only reference I could find to this error was a single post on a Russian forum. They explained that MR ran out of memory. I can't see how that's possible considering I can delete a single 15 poly part, create another 500 polys worth, and rerender the exact same angle without it running out of memory. Plus I have 2gigs for max to play with.

There is something inside this file that is screwing up. and considering I didn't have this problem before I started on the bays, there is something inside those elements that is causing the error. I thought that I had it isolated down to the part I rebuilt, but once I copied a part from the back greeble, around where the bays meet the piers, it happened again. So I probably won't have to restart from scratch, but I will almost certainly have to delete all the greebling on the bays. possibly the bays and towers as well. I'll be back to where I was several pages ago.

[StangCody]

Originally Posted by -Raynor-

Completely restart the project?! Makes me somewhat worried...

probably won't have to completely start over, and even if I did, I would try to save as much of the mesh as I could. try outputting to an .obj file into a new file. try to keep it as isolated from the old file as possible. Plus I do have some older saves. (one of the best lessons I learned in my graphics classes). I can just start over from where I finished the gondola, or the piers.

No worries. It may slow me down, but it won't stop me.

[L2K]

sometimes i have that kind of problems.
this can be from so many sources.

sometimes, i can fix it with a simple new empty scene in witch i merge the old one.
if the problem comes back, i isolate the bad object (one by one to be sure) and i just make it again.

[S.W.Ninja]

If you like you can send me the file, ill resave it as a new .max file then send it back that should sort any issues with it being a file problem if that doesnt work then you know its just a software issue. I have both max 8 and 9 so I can match compatability to either for you. Would be a total crime to have you restart such splendid work.

[StangCody]

Originally Posted by L2K

sometimes i have that kind of problems.
this can be from so many sources.

sometimes, i can fix it with a simple new empty scene in witch i merge the old one.
if the problem comes back, i isolate the bad object and i just make it again.

ya that's pretty much what I tried here. At one point I copied all the model into a new file without modification. same error occurred. as the last couple of pages attests, I tried rebuilding the part, but evidentially it wasn't the only source of the errors.

Anyway I've made a new file, deleted all the mesh that could possibly be in error, and began recreating the bay structure. With any luck this will solve the problem. If not then I may try exporting the mesh again. Who knows.