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From: Diego Gomes (diego.enry_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Feb 29 2024 - 17:09:42 CST

That could be a Windows issue.

Do you mind checking if that also happens if you try rendering using a
script?

# Rotates by 360º in 100 frames.
for {set i 0} {$i < 100} {incr i } {
  rotate y by 3.6
  set filename [format "snapshot_%05d.tga" $i]
  render snapshot ${filename}
}

Friendly,
Diego

On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 10:33 AM Kung, Ryan <rwk929_at_mail.usask.ca> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am having some problems with generating movies using vmd on windows.
> Once I make the representation how I desire, I use the movie maker
> extension to generate the images over the trajectory. The problem is that
> vmd crashes in the middle of rendering the frames. I am using the Snapshot
> render but it also crashes for other renders I have tried. Most of the
> time, vmd simply closes without warning. It happens on different frames
> when I repeat the process. The image files are generated up to that point
> and vmd sometimes closes in the middle of saving a image file, causing it
> to be unreadable. I most recently got the following error message:
>
> while executing
> "render snapshot $imgfilename"
> (procedure "renderframe" line 25)
> invoked from within
> "renderframe $basefilename"
> (procedure "genframes_trajectory" line 34)
> invoked from within
> "genframes_trajectory "
> (procedure "::MovieMaker::buildmovie" line 78)
> invoked from within
> "::MovieMaker::buildmovie"
> invoked from within
> ".movie.goabort.gobutton invoke"
> ("uplevel" body line 1)
> invoked from within
> "uplevel #0 [list $w invoke]"
> (procedure "tk::ButtonUp" line 24)
> invoked from within
> "tk::ButtonUp .movie.goabort.gobutton"
> (command bound to event)
>
> The rendering stopped and would no longer work in snapshot mode. Changing
> it to internal tachyon renderer made it save a handful of frames (less than
> 20) before it crashed and closed the program without warning.
>
> Thanks for your help.
> 

-- 
Diego Enry B. Gomes, PhD
Department of Physics at Auburn University &
NIH Center for Macromolecular Modeling and Visualization
Leach Science Center - Ste. 3182 - Auburn, AL
dgomes_at_auburn.edu