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SORT:: keeps crashing max??

by Denham "F0ggy" Trollip · in Artist Corner · 05/31/2002 (11:41 am) · 14 replies

heya, iv been trying to export my trees with SORT:: on hte leaf's cus thay where lookin wrong
so i did wat it says in hte Apendix, and made it SORT::leafs64 but when i go to export it crashs max...
heres the exact error:



do i need a cfg file as well? am i just missing something?

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#1
05/31/2002 (11:42 am)
doh, guess i cant post HTML
copy n paste the link i guess :(
#2
05/31/2002 (11:51 am)
A) You can modify a post so you don't have to post twice...

B) use [url] whatever [/url] to make a link

as in:

www.garagegames.com

-J
#3
05/31/2002 (11:54 am)
err, k.. didn't know i could use vB.
[IMG]http://F0ggy.d2g.biz/error.jpg[/IMG]
#4
05/31/2002 (12:39 pm)
any wase.. the question still stands =\
has any body else had this problum?
#5
05/31/2002 (9:07 pm)
:( is this question some stupid thing taht wouldent be happning if i read more some where? or is it jsut taht no ones online?
#6
05/31/2002 (10:27 pm)
I cannot say that I have ever seen or heard of this error occuring before and I have exported a hell of a lot of DTS files for projects that I work on and for other people.

What version of 3DS Max are you running? You should be running 3.1, 4.02 or 4.2x if you are not then you should update immediately. Are you sure that the DLE was compiled correctly? Have you tried a DLE that someone else uses that works fine for them? Are you running NT 4, Win2k, or WinXP Pro? Are you running the latest updates? Is your HDD fragmented? Have you tried running one of those RAM testing programs (found at places like mushkin.com) to see if you have bad OEM RAM installed?

Hmm well that is all that I can think of for now... also please be patient when waiting for a response, the help that you seek is volunteered.

Logan
#7
05/31/2002 (11:16 pm)
Are you sing a .cfg file? If so, open it and see if it has the t2 autodetail line in there. If it does, try it again with that line commented out.

I haven't seen to many of this type of error. Does it work fine without the SORT::?
#8
05/31/2002 (11:47 pm)
yea, it works fine w/o the SORT::
im useing max4.2 on Win2K my HD is fine, same with my ram
im useing the exporter tahts found on this site (under Docs)
i just can't figure it out.. =\
sry bout being impatent its just i wana to get past this asap =( i got quite a few more models to do and i cant do them till i can export this one.
thx for your help in advance
#9
06/01/2002 (2:32 am)
Does the shape in question have the multires modifier on it?

Is it using a .cfg file? (check the dump file to see)

It would be helpful to know where in the export process the crash happens. Check your dump file and post here the last few lines that are in the filw.
#10
06/02/2002 (12:11 am)
it crashes so soon taht it doesnt even write any thing to the dmp file, its blank...
and no the model doesnt have multires its just a bunch of polys placed to put alpha mapped leafs texture on
im not doing any thing specal with the model, theres no wierd animation divices on it or any thing, its just static... tahts why i cant figure out wtf its doing this
#11
06/02/2002 (9:05 pm)
k well i just got a dif build of the exporter from a friend and it exports SORT:: fine...
mabey someone ofical at GG wants to look in to this?
is it just my comp that doesnt like the 2meg version?
or is it corupt?
#12
06/16/2002 (3:08 am)
I have exactly the same error! :-(
So it's not just your comp.

Tree: http://home.tiscalinet.ch/faesenstaub/gg/Baum01.jpg
Error: http://home.tiscalinet.ch/faesenstaub/gg/error.jpg
#13
10/10/2002 (8:31 am)
I cant get SORT:: to work in max either, keeps crashing for no reason.
#14
10/10/2002 (8:41 am)
Try this:

www.joemaruschak.com/max2dtsExporter.zip

and see if that helps (zip contains working build of the exporter for Max 4)