Ok, So in hopes of posting a few tutorials, I began making a few different ones... The only issue is that I recently built a new computer, and now Openzone crashes upon finalizing turning any imported mesh, poly, or whatever for that matter. This is truly frustrating seeing as I even reverted to an older version of OZ which had worked on the older computer. After looking at any differences between the two setups, reverting back to 3dsmax 08 rather then working with 2010 still has yielded no positive results.
Not sure what is causing the error, but upon further testing, I found that OZ also crashes upon closing it, causing the standard "Microsoft Error Report" to show.
The close-crash error isnt really a problem if I could in fact get the program to compile the mesh into the .s3d file format correctly.
Current system specs are:
XP-64bit
Core i7 3.2ghz machine
12 gigs ram
Two radeon HD4870s
More HDD space then ever needed
All graphics drivers are up to date and properly 64bit supported. both versions of max are 64 bit as was the system that was used previously with no errors. Any help from Wind or whoever may have an answer would be great.
I have all the content and videos created up to the final compile issue which really means they are useless as of right now.
All textures are .bmp format with power of 2 resolution and nothing greater then 2048x2048. All mesh/poly imports have less then 64k faces per import as per the .3ds import limitation. I do recall installing some other file way back when on the old machine from the list of downloads however i dont remember if it had anything to do with OZ or its functionality.
Furthermore, upon transfering old .3ds files over to the new machine, the ones that did in fact work back on the old machine, and attempting to compile once more, the same crash error occured.
The error comes up "Access violation at address 0040462D in Module 'Openzone.exe'. Read of address 46454443" which is generated immediately before the "Encoding output file" process bar begins but after running through the beginning steps.
If I simply have forgotten some plugin file or support file, then i feel like an idiot.
Thanks for any help I can get.
--Once this issue is resolved I will post tutorials for:
Zone terrain creation through: simple drag-point design, and heightmap usage
Creation of heightmaps using photoshop
Creation of simple low poly trees with low,moderate, and high detail
Creation of tree branches and usage of alpha maps for transparent leaves
Creation of medium and high poly trees for high res terrain creation
Any other suggested tutorials I will undertake as I can and at request... following the correction/fix of my OZ functionality.
If people simply want 3dsmax tutorials, I can show those as well for modeling needs.
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