CC3+ stops fractalizing while drawing terrain
I'm running CC3+ version 3.92 on a Windows 7 machine.
The problem I'm having is when I draw fractalized terrain features onto a landmass. The first few clicks fractalize just fine and I'm able to use the space bar as I go to tweak them. Then the screen automatically refreshes and suddenly all the remaining lines are straight (without fractalization). Pressing space bar does nothing at that point and I haven't figured out a way to re-enable fractalization. I've worked around this by roughing out the outline I want and then using the fractalize tool afterward to fix up the straight polygon lines, but that's obviously not ideal.
Is there something I can do to correct/avoid this behavior?
The problem I'm having is when I draw fractalized terrain features onto a landmass. The first few clicks fractalize just fine and I'm able to use the space bar as I go to tweak them. Then the screen automatically refreshes and suddenly all the remaining lines are straight (without fractalization). Pressing space bar does nothing at that point and I haven't figured out a way to re-enable fractalization. I've worked around this by roughing out the outline I want and then using the fractalize tool afterward to fix up the straight polygon lines, but that's obviously not ideal.
Is there something I can do to correct/avoid this behavior?
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I select fractilization, then click on the line, polygon, etc. I want to fractalize.
Due to Windows limitations, I don't click more than 3 times, maybe 4.
James - I haven't been able to replicate this issue at all. Maybe contact Tech Support about it?
Or do you mean when it autosaves?
I've tried to come up with a way to reliably duplicate the fractalization problem, but the only consistent thing about it is that it seems to only happen after I've had the program open for a while. If I close CC3+ and reopen it, everything is fine again for awhile and the 60-second screen flashes doesn't cause a problem. It behaves like a memory leak, although that could have nothing to do with it.
I'm sure that the screen flash is not autosave. I have that set to the five minute default. Also, the autosave displays a prompt when it activates. I've also noticed that using the keyboard shortcuts for save and refresh do not initiate a flash like the one that happens every 60 seconds.
I'm not saying this is the cause, but out of curiosity (because I still can't replicate the problem) is this a very large and rather slow file? Does it take a couple of seconds or more to zoom and pan around?
I should also probably mention that I've experienced this issue since I first started using CC3+, which has been pretty much since it was released. The fractalization issue has persisted through multiple updates of CC3+, and of course, many computer reboots/restarts.
No point in waiting around to see if anyone else can make it happen if we can't.
Tech Support here is really great - friendly and helpful. Don't worry about all the crap that can happen if you try to contact support for other non-PF apps. PF really isn't like that at all. They're human, and if its possible they usually fix things really fast.
I won't have my hopes up. Thirty years of programming experience has taught me that finding a bug (and later verifying that you fixed it) is nearly impossible without a way to reliably duplicate the problem.
Do you have effects turned on ?