I have a serious problem with Dante 3.1. (UB version)
The problem is after rendering app.100 frames (i.e 5 sec) the Camera crashes.
My system is (MacPro 3.2Ghz, Leopard 6GB RAM, EIAS 7.01).
I think not God only Blair can help!!
Is there any solution Blair. You are the only hope.

I used long time back Dante 2.6 with my old G4 and did not face any problems.
Plz help me.

EIAS senior people must help in solving the problem.
We are ready to buy plug-ins without tutorials or supports.
After hard efforts we learn ..however...unstability of plug-ins or applications are not acceptable…
We dont want to know which translator is used....code warrior or x-code...we are looking forward to solve our problems only.
This will affect seriously the sale of EIAS though it is considered as one of the fastest rendering program.

Note: I appriciate EIAS (Matt Hoffman) for their extrodinary support. He sends personal mails to solve problems.

Hi Dominic-
If there are bugs, Blair will need a sample project which demonstrates the problem.
The best way to do this is to remove everything from your project that does not directly show the problem, or just construct a new project that demonstrates it. Also include a detailed description of what you are doing in the project, and the problems. If you have crashes try to figure out the exact sequence of action which causes the crash. Include any renderings, screenshots, etc. that would be helpful in describing the problems you have found.
This specific information is necessary for the programmer to track down exactly what is happening.

If you have some web space you can post a download link for your .prj here...I am sure Blair will see it and respond.

Thankx Dave
I will do it.

I can send him the whole project as zip file.
However it is as simple to describe.
Bcz it repeated in many cases.
example:
I construct dredger model in formZ and rendered.
Everything worked fine.
When I added Dante 3.1 for spray effect.
(one time with ubershape sphere object and other time with built-in ‘lines’)
In preview everything went well.
But in rendering, the camera crashed app. after 100 frames. though it suppose to go 650 frames.

It is Dante 311UB version. I am working on Leopard with 6GB RAM. EIAS 7.01

The crash repeated in many projects only with Dante 311UB.
Also when I tried ‘fire’ for another project same thing happen.
Sometime even unable to recover the project.
I confirmed it clearly.
Thats why I reported to forum.
However I will send the file to Brad today.
( I have not gone out of range in any of the parameters.)

Check the amount of memory allocated to Camera.  If it’s more than 2 GB, reduce it to just under 2 GB and try again.

Well .......All I tried.
Initially camera memory was 4GB.
I tried with 1.2GB.
It did not make any difference.

I am confused.
The sample file has been sent to Blair.

If anybody wants to figure it out....you may download this sample project from
http://www.deevista.com/3d/

You must have northernlights plugin Dante 3.11UB version.

Thankx for all

Well I downloaded your project and noticed a couple of things. I did reduce your uber sphere resolution...I thought you were probably using too many divisions. I’m running 7.0.1 on a 2GHZ G5. Dante 3.1.1 UB. I switched to phong rendering and no anti aliasing because again you probably don’t need it. Plus I dropped the resolution in half. Camera memory is at 512 mb. Rendered 150 frames without incident.

Switched the settings back to Raytracing, full resolution, and adaptive anti aliasing and rendered 150 frames without incident with Camera only equipped with 512mb ram. I’m not seeing any crashing at all. Its a pretty straight forward project.

Phong frames averaged in at 4 seconds a frame. Raytracing 36 seconds.

I stand corrected. I did get a crash at frame 91. It was the phong render that made it past 100 frames.

Date/Time:  2008-07-22 17:02:35.633 -0700
OS Version:  10.4.11 (Build 8S165)
Report Version: 4

Command: Camera
Path:  /Applications/EIAS 7.0.1/Camera.app/Contents/MacOS/Camera
Parent:  WindowServer [63]

Version: 7.0.1 (???)

PID:  15636
Thread: 0

Exception:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes:  KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000a30

Thread 0 Crashed:
0 ...lectricimage.universecamera 0x00195c34 CalcPriority + 3348
1 ...lectricimage.universecamera 0x0019692c FirstPass + 2668
2 ...lectricimage.universecamera 0x001f6714 RenderProcess + 612
3 ...lectricimage.universecamera 0x001f8cd8 RenderFrame + 568
4 ...lectricimage.universecamera 0x0018d590 RenderControlFrame + 240
5 ...lectricimage.universecamera 0x0018ebbc RenderControlFile + 5484
6 ...lectricimage.universecamera 0x00185ba4 CameraMain + 2276
7 ...lectricimage.universecamera 0x0000f4f8 (anonymous namespace)::Render(Atlas::FS_Locator const&, Rs_ShareBlock&, std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >&) + 152
8 ...lectricimage.universecamera 0x0000f7f8 Cam_RenderTimer::TimerAction() + 200
9 ...lectricimage.universecamera 0x00077428 TimerCallBack + 56
10 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x907f2384 __CFRunLoopDoTimer + 184
11 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x907decfc __CFRunLoopRun + 1680
12 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x907de2b0 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 268
13 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x9329cb20 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 264
14 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x9338137c GetNextEventMatchingMask + 116
15 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x93381244 WNEInternal + 152
16 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x93381198 WaitNextEvent + 76
17 ...lectricimage.universecamera 0x000fe17c FWEventManager::GetSystemEvent(FWEvent&, bool) + 236
18 ...lectricimage.universecamera 0x000fe1f0 FWEventManager::Execute() + 64
19 ...lectricimage.universecamera 0x0000e564 FWCameraMain() + 68
20 ...lectricimage.universecamera 0x0000e650 main + 16
21 ...lectricimage.universecamera 0x0000239c _start + 760
22 ...lectricimage.universecamera 0x000020a0 start + 48

Thread 1:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x900411f8 mach_wait_until + 8
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90040fc4 nanosleep + 388
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90044798 usleep + 88
3 ...lectricimage.universecamera 0x00010908 Cam_TaskTimeThread::ThreadFunc() + 56
4 ...lectricimage.universecamera 0x00152860 Atlas::_threadfunc(void*) + 32
5 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9002bd08 _pthread_body + 96

Thread 0 crashed with PPC Thread State 64:
srr0: 0x0000000000195c34 srr1: 0x100000000000f030 vrsave: 0x0000000000000000
cr: 0x42022444 xer: 0x0000000000000000 lr: 0x0000000000194f30 ctr: 0x0000000000171914
r0: 0x0000000000000002 r1: 0x00000000bfffcc40 r2: 0x0000000000000a20 r3: 0x00000000bfffce40
r4: 0x0000000001a4e1d8 r5: 0x00000000fffffeca r6: 0x000000000000014f r7: 0x0000000077b05010
r8: 0x0000000000000002 r9: 0x0000000001a4e1f4 r10: 0x0000000001a60978 r11: 0x0000000000000003
r12: 0x00000000bfffd9e8 r13: 0x00000000000013f9 r14: 0x0000000001a60978 r15: 0x00000000019ebdf8
r16: 0x00000000bfffdcc8 r17: 0x00000000bfffdcc8 r18: 0x000000000187df5c r19: 0x0000000001aee35c
r20: 0x0000000000000009 r21: 0x000000000047fe14 r22: 0x0000000000001402 r23: 0x0000000077b06b68
r24: 0x000000000000014f r25: 0x00000000fffffeca r26: 0x0000000001a60978 r27: 0x0000000001a60978
r28: 0x00000000bfffce40 r29: 0x0000000001a4e1d8 r30: 0x0000000077b06b48 r31: 0x0000000000194f30

Paralumino - 22 July 2008 05:23 PM

Well I downloaded your project and noticed a couple of things. I did reduce your uber sphere resolution...I thought you were probably using too many divisions. I’m running 7.0.1 on a 2GHZ G5. Dante 3.1.1 UB. I switched to phong rendering and no anti aliasing because again you probably don’t need it. Plus I dropped the resolution in half. Camera memory is at 512 mb. Rendered 150 frames without incident.

Switched the settings back to Raytracing, full resolution, and adaptive anti aliasing and rendered 150 frames without incident with Camera only equipped with 512mb ram. I’m not seeing any crashing at all. Its a pretty straight forward project.

Phong frames averaged in at 4 seconds a frame. Raytracing 36 seconds.

Thankx for your efforts.
It is not the matter of sphere.
I tried even with dante’s built-in points or lines.
The project has been sent to Blair.
I am sure we will get solution soon.............
Some time the crash is even after 200 frames.  But there is a crash.
I guess the crash may be due to some kind of code conflict specically for UB version. (INTEL Machines???)

Here is the report:

Sys: MacPro 3.25Ghz, octo, 6GB RAM, 20” Cinema with ATI, Leopard

My EIAS 7.01‎
Dante 3.11UB
The project res: 1024x576 25fps

Camera crashed after rendering 8sec 1 frame (201 frames)‎
from the crashed window

Problem Details

Process:  Camera [534]‎
Path:  /EIAS7.0.1/Camera.app/Contents/MacOS/Camera
Identifier:  com.electricimage.universecamera
Version:  7.0.1 (???)‎
Code Type:  X86 (Native)‎
Parent Process:  launchd [67]‎

Date/Time:  2008-07-23 03:35:29.803 +0300‎
OS Version:  Mac OS X 10.5.4 (9E17)‎
Report Version:  6‎

Exception Type:  EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)‎
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000‎
Crashed Thread:  0‎

Thread 0 Crashed:‎
‎0 libSystem.B.dylib ‎ ‎0x96feab9e __kill + 10‎
‎1 libSystem.B.dylib ‎ ‎0x97061ec2 raise + 26‎
‎2 libSystem.B.dylib ‎ ‎0x9707147f abort + 73‎
‎3 libstdc++.6.dylib ‎ ‎0x90678005 0x90630000 + 294917‎
‎4 libstdc++.6.dylib ‎ ‎0x9067610c __gxx_personality_v0 + 1108‎
‎5 libstdc++.6.dylib ‎ ‎0x9067614b std::terminate() + 29‎
‎6 libstdc++.6.dylib ‎ ‎0x90676261 __cxa_throw + 101‎
‎7 libstdc++.6.dylib ‎ ‎0x906765d8 operator new(unsigned long) + 100‎
‎8 libstdc++.6.dylib ‎ ‎0x90676689 operator new[](unsigned long) + 17‎
‎9 Dante_31.plm ‎ ‎0x18952f51 InitializeParticles() + 105 ‎‎(UGenerate.c:664)‎
‎10 Dante_31.plm ‎ ‎0x18953ac4 DoGenerate(long, void*) + 1020 ‎‎(UGenerate.c:836)‎
‎11 Dante_31.plm ‎ ‎0x18971f32 Main + 670 (UMain.c:102)‎
‎12 ...lectricimage.universecamera ‎0x001f9a93 CallPluginModel + 1683‎
‎13 ...lectricimage.universecamera ‎0x001f9fc5 ReadPluginModel + 261‎
‎14 ...lectricimage.universecamera ‎0x00180cd0 ReadModels + 656‎
‎15 ...lectricimage.universecamera ‎0x001827ba ReadFrame + 2890‎
‎16 ...lectricimage.universecamera ‎0x001844c0 RenderControlFrame + 336‎
‎17 ...lectricimage.universecamera ‎0x00185334 RenderControlFile + 3604‎
‎18 ...lectricimage.universecamera ‎0x0017c53f CameraMain + 2415‎
‎19 ...lectricimage.universecamera ‎0x00010c12 (anonymous ‎namespace)::Render(Atlas::FS_Locator const&, Rs_ShareBlock&, ‎std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >&) + 146‎
‎20 ...lectricimage.universecamera ‎0x00010f6b Cam_RenderTimer::TimerAction() ‎‎+ 187‎
‎21 ...lectricimage.universecamera ‎0x0006fc14 TimerCallBack + 36‎
‎22 com.apple.CoreFoundation ‎ ‎0x904e8b45 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 4469‎
‎23 com.apple.CoreFoundation ‎ ‎0x904e8cf8 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 88‎
‎24 com.apple.HIToolbox ‎ ‎0x946eada4 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 283‎
‎25 com.apple.HIToolbox ‎ ‎0x9479dfe8 GetNextEventMatchingMask + 100‎
‎26 com.apple.HIToolbox ‎ ‎0x9479de4a WNEInternal + 151‎
‎27 com.apple.HIToolbox ‎ ‎0x9479dda9 WaitNextEvent + 54‎
‎28 ...lectricimage.universecamera ‎0x000ef779 ‎FWEventManager::GetSystemEvent(FWEvent&, bool) + 121‎
‎29 ...lectricimage.universecamera ‎0x000ef854 FWEventManager::Execute() + 52‎
‎30 ...lectricimage.universecamera ‎0x0000fed7 FWCameraMain() + 71‎
‎31 ...lectricimage.universecamera ‎0x0000ff7b main + 11‎
‎32 ...lectricimage.universecamera ‎0x00002a72 _start + 216‎
‎33 ...lectricimage.universecamera ‎0x00002999 start + 41‎
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