2006 Scene States - trouble?

[Rob Turner]

My first attempt at scene states for materials worked great until I saved. when I opened the file, all the scene stated were gone and the materials in the Material editor are not "hot". Is this a common problem or should I try again?

This is another feature that seems to have great promise, but if its buggy I'll drop it now.

[Rob Turner]

OK.....I redid my scene states and now the file wont open at all. This is not looking like a good feature. Maybe a new name for this feature is in order? Since this is a family show I wont share these. This feature is one of the main attractions for upgrading. I am on service pack 1.

[Tod Stephens]

I've been using Scene States without any problems. Did you try testing the Scene States with a real simple scene (maybe just a box and a couple of lights)? Just to see if the problems you are having are limited to the one file.

[Rob Turner]

I just tried a simple box. saved 2 scene states, one for each material. It crashed while saving, and wont open the file....tried it again and it worked. I am getting a fresh new system this week (due to many other issues) with all new installs, maybe this will resolve it. Thanks for the repsonse.

[Tod Stephens]

Definitely sounds like time to re-install Viz. Maybe you have some corrupt or missing DLLs. Or even some WIndows OS problems.