Mudbox 2009 crash

MikeF

So i was working on a sculpt last night and i accidentally saved my scene with everything at the highest subdivision level, now i cant open the file without mudbox crashing. Wondering if there's any workaround for this, or if i could possibly send someone the file for them to drop down a few levels and send it back to me.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, really dont want to redo this

i've only 2gb of ram, so i'm guessing that's the problem

MikeF

looking around this seems pretty unsolvable. So for future reference to anyone that doesnt know, always drop your subdivisions down before saving!!

Will Faucher

The fact you only have 2gb of ram definitely doesn't help. However, when a file is corrupted, that tends to happen as well.

BradMyers82

yeah, man. Sorry to hear about this. Corrupt files can be a major headache.

That's why incremental saves are so important. Just out of curiosity, were you creating incremental saves?

Will Faucher

True, incremental saves are win. Unfortunately Mudbox doesn't have an Autoback feature like max has (totally should).

oglu

try to open the .bak file...
or if its a really important file send it to autodesk... they repared a file for me a year ago...


and a autoback feature is no good idea in mudbox...
saving a mud file with manny uvtiles, paint layers, several objects could take minutes to save...

the file coruption in mud2010 SP1 is taken to a minimum...
i never had one with...

and there is also mud2011 on the horizon...

Will Faucher

Good point there. I wonder when 2011 will be released? Or at least, announced?

oglu

together with all the other autodesk apps...