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What is happening when it is causeing you problems? You never say what happens.

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Sorry, basically my computer is rendering frame 72 and it just freezes. Depending on the computer you can close the program with task manger and not have to restart your computer, but typically you do.

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more details, what are you rendering with? what renderer are you using? how many things do you have in the scene? How many polygons? Lighting? reflections? unessary large amount of meta particles?

My computer has trouble freezing sometimes to and here is what i do.

1. Make sure there are no screen savers, power savers turn on includeing the monitor shutting off. Some how it messes with my computer, if you need to turn your monitor off just turn it off yourself.

2. render The video out in a targa sequece. That way if the computer freezes you wont lose everything that has been renderd. Then after it is done rendering, put it throught a second party and composite the targa sequence. (or something alone those lines)

3. No cruiseing internet or playing music with the computer that is rendering.

This is what I do when my computer is rendering. (although i break rule three a lot).

I still dont have any idea whats happening with your computer. What is the error that is popping up? what are you trying to render? details!

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sometimes a "freeze" may only be a "super special" effect that is taking a really big time to render... Is the camera starting to view a really heavy object (in polys =p) or a heavy effect (like motion blurring+GI+raytrace+F.O.V.) ?

These things can really slow down the render unexpectedly, and not "freeze" it. And you shouldn't minimize/use other applications while rendering, it causes 3dsmax to freeze until the frame is ready.

Hope I helped =)
Good luck ^^

P.S.: Lol we posted almost at the same time =P
But its basically what Buddy said =)

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Oh yeah and that reminds me. To check if your computer is frozen hit the num lock on your keybord. If the num lock light doesnt change then chances are your computer is frozen. If it does than leave your computer alone.

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Quick question, by chance do any of you guys know how to switch from one camera to another?

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I have another question....

You know for 3ds, when you click the button move....

The object should have 3 different color arrow pointing out of object: x, y, z
But it didn't show up in my screen

2 cameras
 

This has at least 2 possible solutions:

1. If you're using a video editing program
In Max render just the frames for that camera. For instance Camera01 render frames 0-140. Then render Camera02 frames 141-400. Put them together in your video editing program.

2. If you're only using Max
Only use one camera. Let's say you want a new camera view at frame 141. Create camera keyframes at 140 and 141. At frame 141 move your camera to get the desired view (with keyframe on). You will have an instant camera cut.

hope this helps!

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Just X?

Thanks! Didn't know it's just that simple
So the deadline again for this animation is this friday?

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Yup. Keyboard shortcuts are a handy thing... but they can be frustrating to new users! There's a list in the Max help file.

And yes the deadline is Friday, Feb. 16, 5:00 pm Autodesk time (or 8pm to us on the east coast :D ).

Competition Rules: http://firstbase.autodesk.com/?nd=fi..._visualization

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Eww, Targa. A waste of disk space if I ever saw one.

I keep trying to tell people, PNG is good. It compresses well. Is lossless. Can have an alpha channel. Can be anything from 8-bit grayscale to 48-bit RGBA. Widely supported. Sounds like a winner to me.

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You can do this in video post. Press F1 to bring up the user manual and read up on it.

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I am having an odd error, it never used to give me this error :/

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where and what is it?