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Perhaps it was a nod to the monochrome styling of some traditional African art... No, it is not. When this has been discussed before, Martin has said that the splash screen should remain.

Genuine copper.

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The more I think about this the more I think something is overheating. AM v18 certainly hasn't changed recently. It might be a part starting to fail but the symptoms sound like something isn't getting cooled right. An accumulation of dust like this might impede the cooling enough to cause a failure. I didn't see this until i took off the fan. Or.... maybe a fan has just plain failed? A computer can limp along with incomplete cooling until it has to do real work and then the lack of full cooling causes a shut down.

And four it is. Some people only run 3 nodes so one is left to handle other computer OS housekeeping chores If I need my computer to do nothing else I run four and use the Windows task manager to set the Priority of one to "Below normal" so that when i do need to use the computer interface it doesn't behave as frozen or slow because it has to share time with a four full priority nodes..

First guess, which I have no way to test... rendering is maxing the CPU enough that it overheats and shuts down. Is the CPU heatsink clogged with cat hair?

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The regular startup should work. I suspect some previous program or utility or procedure has altered something about how your computer's "path"

Do RenderServer_64.exe first and see if the NetRender interface come up. If it does, then do RenderMessenger_64.exe once to see if one of the slaves in the interface goes form "off line" to "on line"

I guess the first message indicates that the NetRender interface couldn't be started. Is there any kind of not-the-default-folder situation regarding your A:M installation? In your AM folder there is a file called NetRender.cmd That expects that renderserver_64.exe and rendermessenger_64.exe to be in the same fodler as itself. Are they?

Did the Main netrender interface show up?

1:54... is that a new record?

If I delete Bill from the Chor and then drop another copy of him back in, he shades normally. Of course that loses all the animation, but it tells me something has been set in the chor (rather than in the model) that is creating the flat shading. If I look in the Chor>Shortcut to Bill 03>Options I find that "Flat Shaded" is ON. Turn that OFF and he will shade like Doris. I used to have a cat named "Doris" but we had to change it to "Boris"

OK, NOW I see it! I remember that one! The "beam" is probably a thin cylinder with a bone at each end. The bone at the letter end is on a path constraint, using the spline at the edge of the letter as a "path". A new path constraint is probably used for each letter. If you wanted to bring this to Live Answer Time we could rough it out.

I can download it but QuickTime wont' open it.

Here's a brief definition from Wikipedia: "Features of Googie include upswept roofs, curvaceous, geometric shapes, and bold use of glass, steel and neon. Googie was also characterized by Space Age designs symbolic of motion, such as boomerangs, flying saucers, atoms and parabolas, and free-form designs such as "soft" parallelograms and an artist's palette motif. These stylistic conventions represented American society's fascination with Space Age themes and marketing emphasis on futuristic designs." I'm not sure what a soft parallelogram is. If I Google that I get pictures of cellphones.

That's great! I guess some stagehand was ready to throw him that trombone when he needed it.

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I believe this style is called "Googie" architecture.

So, over on the trombone forum I also say that having a conical trombone is possible like having a triangle with parallel sides is possible, and someone helpfully points out that in some non-plane geometry it is possible. Fine, I say, all you have to do is get to the universe where that works on a trombone. It's probably the universe where Spock has a mullet, I say, thinking there is no such thing. And then someone comes up with this...

I look forward to your report.

Very impossible. A truly conical bore instrument that you can also change the length to change the pitch is pretty much a geometric impossibility. Like having a triangle that also has two parallel sides. It's remarkable how much discussion there is over there when the trombone hasn't changed much in 400 years.

Over on the trombone forum someone was lamenting that you can't have a slide trombone with a conical bore from one end to the other.

Problem #2... re applying the decal doesn't fix it!

Mmmm... are those zucchini?