Hi..

Is anyone else having trouble with the paint weight tool on a 64bit linux system.
As soon as I resize the tool and click to paint weights crash, everytime.
So for the moment I'm stuck with editing point weights which is a pain
as I will soon be trying to weight paint muscles… Oh boy.


Admittedly I'm not using Debian 64, but I also had the same problem on debian 64.
So I decided to return to Archlinux64, which I trust far more.

Regards and Thanks
Tom

thomaskinga
Hi..

Is anyone else having trouble with the paint weight tool on a 64bit
linux system. As soon as I resize the tool and click to paint weights
crash, everytime. So for the moment I'm stuck with editing point
weights which is a pain as I will soon be trying to weight paint
muscles… Oh boy.

I had a problem running Gentoo 64 bit with the 8776 nVidia drivers. I
had to turn off display lists when there were point colors on
geometry. Try settng HOUDINI_DISABLE_DISPLAYLIST.

Thanks Mark..

I'll give it a try and post a full reply including the drivers I'm using.

Thanks
Again.

Tom

Mark..

No luck I'm afraid, still crashes.

Basically.. My steps to a crash are..

1) create a tube or any object you can bone, here a simple nurbs or poly arm will do.

2) create the bones for the arm

3) edit capture the region if you wish

4) capture the arm geometry

5) Now, tab to paint capture weights, resize the brush and try to paint some weights for a bone, on a 32bit linux install it works fine, but mine is now a 64bit system.
It crashes every time, just unbearable, I even got it working a little longer by setting
the cook update to “change” and not “always”, but that only delays the inevitable.

My system is a Dual AMD opteron 240 2Gb Ram, Nvidia QuadroFX 1400.
With the latest Nvidia drivers.
ArchLinus 64bit 7.2 (which runs everything else perfectly)

Regards and Thanks
Tom

thomaskinga
Mark..

No luck I'm afraid, still crashes.

Basically.. My steps to a crash are..

Tom

Sorry, but you get a lot further than I do. If I have display lists enabled, I crash as soon as I put down the bones.

With display lists disabled, I'm able to paint just fine.

Sorry. You might try rolling back to an older version of the nVidia driver, but I don't know how easy that is with ArchLinux.

WOW..

I think I will give an older driver a shot, I have noticed that the newer drivers are
a little flaky in windows while running video/dvd players.

Thanks again.
Regards
Tom

Well,
I tried my ATI fireGL V5100 card and guess what, it also crashed.
Needless to say, I don't think much of ATI's cards and drivers, oops,
did I forget to mention that I stepped on my ATI card a few times after
I took it out… That card is going straight to the bin after I snap it in half
(tough card to snap, long too)

So “I'm guessing here” the problem should not be driver based, maybe
it's a 64 bit issue, after testing the problem on other 64 bit distros and getting
the same result I'm now stuck…

Any ideas welcome..

Regards
Tom

OK..

I'm back again, this time with all the right tools..

I'm still having the same problem.

OS: Debian AMD64 3.1R4
Kernel: 2.6.8-12-k8-smp
Graphics card: nvidia QuadroFX 1400
Graphics driver: 1.0.7174

Am I the only one with this problem/bug ?
How do I get SESI to look at this and tell me I'm just doing X wrong.

Thanks
Tom