I am having repeated issues with a project where the file becomes corrupted. I am pretty sure it has to do with painted shader as I am able to recover the file by opening in text editor and deleting an XML block labeled as <custom>. I can actually repeat problem having a file that will open without issue but any saved-as version of the file will not open (TG crashes upon opening). I run with the command line version and can see the app fails with an unhandled exception on a painted shader. It am at the point where I am stuck as I cannot save new versions that can be opened. I need some advice please as I have 6 months invested in this project! I have referenced the last version of my file that will open but crashes on any save-as versions.
The file is fairly large (2.8MB compressed without objects) so I had to save it over at terragen.org under post http://www.terragen.org/index.php?action=tpmod;dl=get567
Bill
Hi,
Unfortunately your problem does relate to the painted shader. It doesn't function correctly and can crash when the amount of data reaches a certain limit. The work around is really to use a number of painted shader nodes as opposed to one big one, if you see what I mean. I'm embarassed this hasn't been fixed yet and will try and it get it dealt with as a high priority bug.
Regards,
Jo
Disclaimer: I posted the exact same question in another thread http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=9529.new#new (http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=9529.new#new). This thread is different enough to warrant its own post I think. If this is regarded as spamming posts, please let me know.
I found this post while searching for paint shader related crashes. Has there been any effort to fix this bug? I am evaluating Terragen 2 for a project and painting clouds (as described here http://www.mrlamppost.com/tg2/guides/paintsky.htm (http://www.mrlamppost.com/tg2/guides/paintsky.htm)) is crucial to me. Is there a way to know when this limit has been reached? What is that limit? Like 10 strokes? 100 strokes? Any advice would be welcome.
We're consistently working on determining the cause and addressing it, but it's a tricky problem to track down. There is no specific limit, it depends on length and number of strokes, and thus probably overall amount of data (although that is not a certainty at this point). Use of multiple painted shaders and frequent *incremental* saving should allow you to build up a scene with reasonable ease and data security overall. We'll fix the underlying issue as soon as we can.
- Oshyan