Jeans as seen in AI tutorial

[gnurf]

OK, here comes a minitutorial on how to create your own Xara Denim in ten easy steps. But before you start, a word of warning: Save often! There's a bug in latest Xara Designer that makes Fractal plasma fill crash Xara totally. When you resize and play around with Fractal plasma, make sure you drag the handles (if you miss a handle when for example rotating, you'll crash XD). Or use Fractal clouds instead, which works fine.

[bb2]

Hi Gnurf, Im unable to cause the crash to occur when playing around with the fractal Plasma. Do you have a xar file saved where we could simply alter the rotation of the fractal Plasma in order to cause the crash to occur? Also does it only occur at a particular zoom value?

Thanks

[wizard509]

Thanks for that mini-tutorial Paul.

[gnurf]

Do you have a xar file saved where we could simply alter the rotation of the fractal Plasma in order to cause the crash to occur? Also does it only occur at a particular zoom value?

The crash always occur when I resize the fractal plasma while NOT dragging the handles, no matter what file or zoom value. I have not had the time to test it on Win 7, only Win Vista 64-bit. See my video screen grab here where I compare the OK fractal clouds vs. the crashing fractal plasma: http://www.screenr.com/Df3s

[bb2]

Hi, Can you confirm your revision number by selecting help followed by About Designer Pro

Thanks

[joscari]

Impressive work, Gnurf, to say the least, and thanks for the tutorial
Sven-Ingvar O

[Big Frank]

Excellent mini-tut, gnurf. I doff my (denim) cap to you!

Very good drawing from you too hakoo!

[gnurf]

Thanks everyone!

Hi, Can you confirm your revision number by selecting help followed by About Designer Pro

It's 7.1.2.18680 DL Oct 7 2011

[stygg2003]

Hi Gnurf, Im unable to cause the crash to occur when playing around with the fractal Plasma. Do you have a xar file saved where we could simply alter the rotation of the fractal Plasma in order to cause the crash to occur? Also does it only occur at a particular zoom value?

Thanks

I hope you don't mind me dropping in but I have a similar problem. When zooming to 200 or over looking at the shape I'm working on, which has a fractal plasma fill and a transparency, they both get dis-placed so I have to zoom out to either drag the shape slightly or click undo and they both jump back in place so I end up trying to work on the shape at 75 or 100% zoom and when I do this I get the error as occured message. I do have the file I was working on so please see if it happens for you. My product is G.D. 7.1.2.1.8680 CD Oct7 2011.

Stygg

[wizard509]

stygg2003, sometimes when I zoom in at 500% I see what appears to be tape strips holding the box together when I move it then it goes away. is this what you are referring to.
lets start a new thread so we don't hijack this one or you can pm me.