Material Editor Crash

[Youngin]

I've been having a problem with my material editor, where every time i go to open a box appears and says MaterialEditor.exe has stop working. Does any one know any reasons or possible solutions why this is happening?

[Marleys Ghost]

Not from the information you have supplied what does it say in your MaterialEditor.log?

[Youngin]

Not from the information you have supplied what does it say in your MaterialEditor.log?

 

Could you tell me how to get to my material editors log?

[Marleys Ghost]

it will be in the root of your SDK Dir.

 

Along with MaterialEditor.exe

[Youngin]

I really sorry i'm new to this, and have no clue where to find this materialeditor.log

[Marleys Ghost]

look in the directory where you installed the Leadwerks SDK.

[Youngin]

look in the directory where you installed the Leadwerks SDK.

 

i'm in

[Volker]

I really sorry i'm new to this, and have no clue where to find this materialeditor.log

It should be in the directory of your Leadwerks Engine, normally

"C:\Program Files\Leadwerks Engine SDK".

It's named "MaterialEditor.log" and created if your start materialeditor.exe.

It can be that the editor crashes before creating the log file.

 

Start the modelviewer.exe. Does it create a ModelViewer.log?

Edited January 21, 2010 by Volker

[Youngin]

It should be in the directory of your Leadwerks Engine, normally

"C:\Program Files\Leadwerks Engine SDK".

It's named "MaterialEditor.log" and created if your start materialeditor.exe.

It can be that the editor crashes before creating the log file.

 

Start the modelviewer.exe. Does it create a ModelViewer.log?

 

for some reason the modelviewer.exe doesn't create a .log in the SDK dir, but it works fine (the model viewer).

[Marleys Ghost]

and the MaterialEditor.log?

[Youngin]

and the MaterialEditor.log?

it doesn't create a .log either, unless there in a folder within the SDK Dir.

[Volker]

Which operating system are you on? Windows XP?

Are you using an admin account?

Would be nice if you put informations about your system in your signature

for the future.

[Marleys Ghost]

well they create the log file in the directory the exe's reside.

 

It would also help if you let us know what OS your are using.

[Youngin]

Which operating system are you on? Windows XP?

Are you using an admin account?

Would be nice if you put informations about your system in your signature

for the future.

 

Okay added that into my signature, and i'm using the admin account, on an OS Vista Home premium Edition x64 bit.

[Volker]

Ok, I see

You can try to execute the editor as admin and in xp compability mode.

[Marleys Ghost]

Vista Home premium Edition x64 bit.

 

 

ok .. outta my remit lol ...

[Youngin]

Ok, I see

You can try to execute the editor as admin and in xp compability mode.

 

Hmm even with that the material editor still crashed but this time it did create a text document, named, MaterialEditor, but sadly theres nothing on it.

[Volker]

Create a folder outside "program files".

Let's say d:\test.

Copy materialeditor.exe, shaders.pak, newton.dll from Leadwerks directory

to it. Try to run it.

 

Or try a fresh install of Leadwerks to a directory outside "program files" like "c:\Leadwerks engine SDK"

and then try again.

 

No more ideas from me at them moment.

[Youngin]

Create a folder outside "program files".

Let's say d:\test.

Copy materialeditor.exe, shaders.pak, newton.dll from Leadwerks directory

to it. Try to run it.

 

Or try a fresh install of Leadwerks to a directory outside "program files" like "c:\Leadwerks engine SDK"

and then try again.

 

No more ideas from me at them moment.

 

i tryed both ideas but no luck.

[macklebee]

probably will not help, but have you updated your drivers?

[Youngin]

probably will not help, but have you updated your drivers?

for what the, SDK?

[Volker]

For your graphics card.

[Youngin]

For your graphics card.

 

That appeared to work, thanks a lot to every one who help.