Every time I try to work on this animation at some point the program stops pre-rendering my work so I can’t even preview what I’m doing. It works at first, but when i go to preview it later the pre-rendering doesn’t even go past 0 and I can’t see what I’ve done anymore. It’s the same when I try to check it on the timeline. It’s like the animation is just stuck.
I know its something wrong with the program at this point, because when I try to close the document it wont even close properly and Syn just crashes on me.
Hello squigcake,
I had this problem sometimes, but it was not a program bug, just a mistake I made, which made it impossible to calculate the report. The error is displayed in the console (the window with black text)
I’ve noticed something similar when using Windows and handling quite complex animations. I’ve seen a message like this at the Status bar of the Canvas window: “Render Failed”. Is is your case?
-G
Unfortunately we aren’t able to fix that easily. We don’t have a proper Windows enviroment to make possible debug those kind of bugs adequately. Our primary development enviroment is for Linux. We need windows experienced people that help us to fix and setup those kind of environment. Current windows binaries are made by a set of scripts that emulate the linux environment in a MYSYS system and we don’t know how to debug there.
Maybe you can help by offering a buggy file and a recipe to reproduce the problem. The smaller the file and the shortest the recipe, the better.
Maybe you can show the offending file and we can try to repeat the problem in a linux machine. But mayeb the computer specifications are important too (RAM, CPU speed, etc)