When I playblast, It gets to around frame 15 and then the screen goes white for a while, and the playblast plays all the way through, but only shows the first 15 frmaes of animation, the rest of the frames show no motion. This happens using F check or movieplayer, compression is cinepak, I have also used no comproession and get the same result. Any help would be appretitated thanks.
I don't know if this will help or not, but in my experience you can't do anything but playblast when you playblast. Once you start you should just take your hand off your mouse and back away. If your mouse hovers anywhere that causes your computer to think about anything but the playblast it will stumble.
That being said, you also could be having the dreaded graphics card bugaboo, in which case update your drivers and all that other fun stuff.
At http://www.cgtalk.com they have a thread in one of the Maya forums about graphics card issues that might help... I say "might."
known problems under maya 6 with xp candy style skins, wont work also run maya in w2k compatibility mode.
Besides that ive nodticed that non dcc cards have alot of problems with playbalsting. I havent got my quaddro to crap a singe time but ive seen gamer cards do it all the time, wich seems to vary a bit form driver to driver.
Yeah, I am doing exactly what you say- not touching the mouse.I have a Wildcat 7210 graphics card, the thing cost me 3 grand. I will be very pissed if this thing doesnt have compatibility. Helluva bug- no patches out there?
hmm no problem on my friends wildcat 7210? are you sure your drivers a and windows ssettings are up to date?
Atleast when we tested maya realy didnt playblast at all if one hadnt tuned widows look under XP into classic for some reason. but as as said its a known limitation, its a problem on allmost all cards. Didnt need to run maya in w2k compatibility mode under xp.
Yeah, works with F Check- no dice on any movie player option.
hmm then it odesnt seem lika a maya problem at all, but rather the movie players somehow garbaged (and thius maya calls it worng because the player is cinfigured wrog in some way, this usualy happens in windows ifd you have set teh default player app into something other than mediplayer and that soft has some glitch in comandline launching)
Yeah, I think thats what it is, my default player is Quicktime. They shoudl fix this bug.
mmm no then the proble is how youve defined calls to quicktime under tha advanced tag of explorer filesettings since it works fine for me when i set it to qt. Anyway you could just edit the mel code thet compromises the playblast a bit if you dont want to configure windows properly.
Yeah so all the windows settings are up to date, and its and all the configuartions are good. F check was working for a brief period, but sometimes it doesnt work, same sympotms as before. Whcih tells me it must be sometihing with Maya. Nto familiar enough with MEL to mess around with playbalst config. Is this fixed in 6.5?
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I still wote ist your system.
What exactly is your sytem configuration, and you tell me whats under your microsoft explorer -> tools forlder view -> avi -> advanced. (try to reset this back t avi tempporarily and se if it works now, if so then ist 100% sure its the config)
What driver version.
What is the setting under your maya shortcut -> properties -> compability (all of them separately)
And wether or not deskop -> properties ->apperance windows and buttons = Windows Classic Style
Ps. by the way ive never seen a certified system with any problems with playblasting as long as the set criteria is met. thenagain the wildcat you have is not on the certified list:
http://www.alias.com/eng/support/maya/qualified_hardware/QUAL/maya_60_win.htmlhttp://www.alias.com/eng/support/maya/qual...aya\_60\_win.html
the 7210 hasnt been certified since 5.0 and even less 3dlabs cards mad ethe cut to 6.5