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From: Mike Powell <mikep@falcon.sr.hp.com>
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Subject: Re: Another strange screen display problem!
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Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 16:29:26 -0800 (PDT)
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> I was going through the metaform tutorial in the latest LWPro (LW 101),
> and liked the results so much, I decided to cut the numbers into the
> faces and make the complete die object (as in singular of dice ;-) ). So,
> I created my metaformed die, and made number 1-6 in another layer,
> positioned the letters one by one, and did a boolean subtract to creat
> the recessed numbers on the die faces. Looked great, even had all the
> surfaces named right! I went to save the object, no problem. I also
> exported it to Layout. Still in Modeler, though, I reloaded the object
> and it was all hacked up! While the original object looked fine in the
> solid preview, the reloaded one had strange lines internal to the die
> connecting seemingly random points from one face to another! No real
> pattern, just a mess, although the outside contour of the die was ok.
> When I went to Layout, that version was all screwy too, and rendered with
> weird holes were the strange connecting line were! I tried to save with a
> different name, with nothing in the other layers and nothing!
>
> Anyone have a clue? BTW, this is LW 3.5 SA (Amiga, obviously) with no
> past problems at all!
>
This appears to be a _big nasty bug_. It may to be related
to the copy protection of SA since I have only heard of this
problem in SA. It has cost me many hours of work. I think
that it might also be related to the import/export of objects,
but since everyone seems to use this so much, it's hard to
tell.
I think this "spider-web" scrambling is the way modeler
responds to a 'missing dongle'.
I have not seen this problem with the Toaster version.
Copy protection is understandable, but copyprotection that
destroys work and makes a port unusable is simply intolerable.
Of course the nasty part of this one is that you don't have
any clue that there is a problem with your object usually until
_after_ you have saved it... meaning that the last usable
version of your object was written over.
Damn. I hope it doesn't bite you again... and perhaps it will
be solved in V4.0...
-Mike-