Sphere emitting particles -> enters the grid - instant crash

[LarsSonparsson]

Hi

I have a quite basic setup where I have a sphere that is emitting small amount of particles. Both are selected as source.
When particles enters the grid, Max will crash instantly.


phoenixFD_adv_21010_max2012_vray_24_x64

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[tashko.zashev]

Hi,

I don't get the crash, but the simulation process stops after the 5th frame.
It seems that the Noise modifier added to the Sphere is the reason for that, but I will do more testing before i make a more concrete conclusion.

Edit: are you able to make a complete simulation if you add an additional Edit poly modifier at the top of the GeoSphere001 list?

[LarsSonparsson]

Thanks.

If I don't have particles, but only the sphere with noise modifier, everything works fine.
So that's why I thought it could be the problem with the particles. Let's see.

[LarsSonparsson]

Yes. I collapsed the sphere to editable mesh and now everything works just fine with the particles. Weird.

[Ivaylo Katev]

yes, as the investigation shows, the particle system is to blame, but nevertheless you can use the edit poly workaround until the fix

[Paul Oblomov]

I had crashes, where spheres deformed with noise modifer + FFD. Always crashed on sim start right after I restarted max. Then I collapsed - everything worked ok.

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Alrighty guys, check the latest nightly for the fix

[LarsSonparsson]

Well that was fast! Thanks.