Flipbook not working!

[sidefxken]

I'm new to Shake and flipbook is not working, I went to a Shake training seminar and went through the same steps and it worked fine. I have 384 mg. and 800 anthlon, Gforce 2, saved the file first, canceled all other apps to make sure Ram was all allocated to Shake, specified time range, etc.what else could be wrong?

[ctennant]

Be more specific please: you mean the flipbook isn't popping up at all? or it pops up and only renders out a single frame?

I'm guessing it's the latter - and although you mentioned that you did specify the time range, do double check and make certain that the time range is entered in the globals panel.

[sidefxken]

No, that's just it, flip book doesn't come up at all, nothing happens,and if I make a file out node, it doesn't go out either, I have the time range set in globals and my slider range. Maybe there's something wrong with the path in my env.settings. I have WinNT. I've followed the tutorials to the tee.

[projectironwill]

I've seen that happen when we try to run Shake from a network drive. The interface works great, but you can't "render" anything, and there aren't any errors reported.

Our fix was to copy the files to the local drive and run it there.

I hope there is a quick fix for this, as we haven't really looked into it yet. The workaround works for now.

-- John

[sidefxken]

I think the problem was in my cache, it was set to c:temp where there is less than the 512 mgs min space requirements, so I saw in the docs to edit the nreal.h so the cache points to a directory with more space. But it is still caching to the c temp, do I need to execute this script rather than just save it?I know the syntax is correct. Sorry to be such a novice, but how do I execute it?

[mlrtiq]

you don't have to hack into the ini files because of this, just set up your temp environment variables.
i have set up TEMP, TMP and TMPDIR because i don't know by heart which software uses which one.
(eg. set TEMP=D:temp)