First steps with the ATW800/2

[rubber_jonnie]

Yes that looks correct colourwise - although I notice something else very weird now....

The scene parameters did not load - the params dialog has only a few buttons, missing all of the sliders and stuff to control the scene.


It maybe was unable to read the info.jsn from the scene directory....

Did you unpack the zip with STZip by any chance? or did you unpack it first then transfer it?


(yep looking more closely, I can see the error message in the log window - can't find the file)

It did complain about being unable to open info.jsn from the scene folder. Is there an issue unzipping first and copying over?

I'll see about downloading and unzipping on the MSTE.

I just checked and the scene directories don't have an info.jsn file, so that would answer that question.

[dml]

I just checked and the scene directories don't have an info.jsn file, so that would answer that question.

Yeah I think that was it - you need to overlay the T4 pack over the base pack. The base pack has all the scene configs and the base binaries etc. The T4 zip just adds support for the T4 devices to the base install.

I might need to change this to be a more clear install error instead of letting it coast on and semi-working.

[rubber_jonnie]

I just checked and the scene directories don't have an info.jsn file, so that would answer that question.

Yeah I think that was it - you need to overlay the T4 pack over the base pack. The base pack has all the scene configs and the base binaries etc. The T4 zip just adds support for the T4 devices to the base install.

I might need to change this to be a more clear install error instead of letting it coast on and semi-working.

Cool, thanks I will give that a try.

[rubber_jonnie]

I just checked and the scene directories don't have an info.jsn file, so that would answer that question.

Yeah I think that was it - you need to overlay the T4 pack over the base pack. The base pack has all the scene configs and the base binaries etc. The T4 zip just adds support for the T4 devices to the base install.

I might need to change this to be a more clear install error instead of letting it coast on and semi-working.

I think we're all the way there now:

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Thanks for the help

No more 'unable to open info.jsn' errors.

[dml]

Yep that looks ok now.

[rubber_jonnie]

Yep that looks ok now.

[rubber_jonnie]

And some more output:

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[dml]

All looking correct.

If you pick one of the cheaper ones (like that last one) and enable 'recording', then 'render anim' it will spit TGA images out as an animation and you can convert them to some other format for playing back.

(Nearly all of the scenes animate in some way - but but many of them will just take too long to record more than a few frames, without a pair of T80x installed. the next release will be a bit faster).

[rubber_jonnie]

All looking correct.

If you pick one of the cheaper ones (like that last one) and enable 'recording', then 'render anim' it will spit TGA images out as an animation and you can convert them to some other format for playing back.

(Nearly all of the scenes animate in some way - but but many of them will just take too long to record more than a few frames, without a pair of T80x installed. the next release will be a bit faster).

Good stuff, I will give it a try

[dml]

I should have said earlier in my replies - but since you are one of the few so far to have 3 Transputers running - enabling the 'TransputerID' button will mark each rendered tile with the Transputer that was responsible (numbered 0,1,2). Works on tilesize 8x8 or 16x16 only - other sizes are too small to fit the digits on there.

I guess this is the simplest way to see how many are actually involved. It helped me find some bugs where one would no wake up, or would go to sleep in the middle