Fatal Error - Paint Fur Attributes Attrbutes

[nicko-dvz]

When I try and use the Paint Fur Attributes Tool with direction selected in Maya 8.0 a message comes up saying:
Fatal Error. Attempting to save..."
I have tried disabling triple buffering, except it was already disabled! (Should I have it enable, by the way?)
What's happening?
Someone help!!!
Thanks,
Nicko

[nicko-dvz]

No-one?

[jp-mardonez]

All right,

I spent 20 minutes trying to reproduce your problem and nothing happened.
Please give us some more information. Its very difficult to guess without information.

Your problem can be produced by several things...

1. Check your uv layout, maybe you have some uvs out of 0-1 space, verify that every uv is inside the 0-1 space.
2. Maybe your geometry is nonmanifold, so maya cannot understand what to do with it, perform a poligon cleanup to solve nonmanifold geometry.
3. Also, check for lamina faces, or any other aberration on your mesh, using of course the cleanup tool.
4. If you paint on "direction" you are modifying the polar atribute, so try painting the polar instead, it will be difficult because it is not as interactive as painting direction. If this or any other attribute fails, then the geometry is the most probable problem. (recheck my 1, 2 and 3 suggestions).
5. Reduce the fur feedback sample hairs... reduce the size of the paint fur attribute texture to 512.

Good luck.