Ice Skater/ Ice turns black / bunny turns black

[kelly.powers@danahall.org]

My student's world turns black. We have played around with the camera object and light and can't prevent the ice from turning black at the end of the animation. Is this a bug?

I am having a similar issue with a bunny object. Which is sometimes initally black when setting up our scene or turns black later in the animation. I have attached 2 alice worlds demonstrating the issues.

[DickBaldwin]

My student's world turns black. We have played around with the camera object and light and can't prevent the ice from turning black at the end of the animation. Is this a bug?

I am having a similar issue with a bunny object. Which is sometimes initally black when setting up our scene or turns black later in the animation. I have attached 2 alice worlds demonstrating the issues.

Must be a system problem of some sort. I just ran both worlds under WinXP and nothing turned black. However, I did get an error dialog during the ice show, but the program continued executing behind the error dialog. When I canceled the error dialog, the skater was still skating.

Dick Baldwin
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[kelly.powers@danahall.org]

I suppose this is OSX or Mac related. I didn't think to try the animations on a windows machine. I have XP also at home and I will give it a try. Thanks for checking.

[DrJim]

The error Dick refers to isn't machine related but comes from trying to set the iceSkater.upperBody to iceSkater.pose3. It is really just warning you that the pose has parameters that affect more than the upper body - it doesn't actually stop the program. You can get rid of the error message by setting the whole iceSkater to the pose - doing so, or making an upper body pose, is probably good practice even if not absolutely necessary.

I also don't have any trouble with the ice or the bunny going black on an XP machine so can't help with that. You might see if Slow and Steady Alice - which uses software rendering - has the same problem.