Have you tried going the other way, importing your scene into the particle
scene?
If you are moving between projects you may want to check your external files
list and see if anything is broken there.
Tim's probably right, regardless of the reliability of Maya, getting on it's
learning curve late in the project won't be pleasant.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
> [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Helen Bucknall
> Sent: 09-May-2006 14:08
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: import explosion model
>
> Thanks Tim,
> I thought it may be a project/directory issue too. But I
> often bounce things between projects without problems.
> I'll try and put it all in the one project and see if that helps.
>
> I don't know if the fact that Maya crashes with gay abandon
> too makes me feel better or worse.
> I don't want to give up on xsi cos I have legacy issues now
> with all the projects I've done in it already.
> But I just waste an inordinate amount of time hacking around
> bugs and instability.
> Max almost never crashed. Although I hear the latest release
> is a bit wobbly.
>
> Maybe I should never have given up on POVRAY. Maybe I should
> never have left the 90's.
> ;}
>
> Cheers.
>
> Tim Leydecker wrote:
>
> > If all you want to break into tears, shelling out the money
> to buy an
> > extra Mayalicense is the way to go. You can have as many crashes as
> > you wish with Maya, too :-)
> >
> > Plus the learning curve...
> >
> > Seriously, from my limited experience I would say you lost
> connection
> > to your images mapped to the attributes?
> >
> > Would make sense you get different results everytime you
> try to load,
> > merge, import, export and so on, depending on the Workgroup or
> > Userdirectory your coming from and saving to?
> >
> > At least that´s what makes Maya burp, if you don´t have the images
> > (that belong to the model/effect) in the same project your scene is
> > saved and your user is pointing to...you get nice black
> blobs instead
> > of colorful (animated) flames.
> >
> > Hope this helps, I feel with you, coming from the other
> side and being
> > close to tears now and then when I try to grasp XSI...
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > tim
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Helen Bucknall"
> > <helen(at)helenbucknall.com>
> > To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 2:13 PM
> > Subject: import explosion model
> >
> >
> >> I set up an explosion in a scene by itself and
> optimistically saved
> >> it as a model and exported it to my generics folder cos it looked
> >> just peachy.
> >>
> >> BUT when I try to stick into the scene I want to use it in
> it looses
> >> all it's nice flame parameters (the sparks seem to work for some
> >> reason).
> >>
> >> I imported the same model into a new scene and the flames were a
> >> malange of grey balls. Then I rebooted and it worked. Then it
> >> didn't.Then it crashed some more. Then the balls were
> orange! The it
> >> worked again. Then I bravely tried to get it into my scene
> and there
> >> were no balls at all just sparks (and tears).
> >>
> >> I tried to merge the original scene into the scene that I
> had set the
> >> explosion up in and of course it crashed. But after
> 18months of using
> >> xsi I'm used to that. So I tried it a few times and it crashed
> >> everytime. So I rebooted....
> >>
> >> So I then set out to set up the whole thing from scratch in the
> >> scene. But all I get is solid black cubes for the flames and the
> >> sparks. Which I remember now is why I had set it up in a pristine
> >> scene in the first place.
> >>
> >> So the question is...how much IS a Maya licence?
> >> Or can anyone think of a way around this mess that should
> have been
> >> as easy as pie.
> >>
> >> Very grateful for any sugestions. I realise there must be several
> >> things conflicting here, but I'm at my wits end. The
> explosion thing
> >> has worked fine for me in the past. What have I done?
> >>
> >> I'm using 4.2 BTW and am increasingly disinclined to buy
> 5.1.....or
> >> 6....
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