Error Pltex can't open temporary bitmap

[Jonathon594]

I'm running Windows 7 Dual Core, 64-bit, i can get pltex to work up to level 4 texture, but if i go over, somewhere randomly while making the textures it says error could not open temporary bitmap, idk what to do please help me

 

[orb]

Did you try to run pltex as Administrator?

Where did you install Orbiter - user's folder, Program files (x86), other?

How much free disk space have you got?

I'm not sure where pltex creates temporary bitmaps right now (probably in working directory), but did you try to clean your user's "Temp" folder?

 

[Jonathon594]

I have the folder open when it does it, i can see the files appearing and deleting, but it will do it for a little bit and then randomly error up, but ill try what u said

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okay somehow i got it to work at level 7 then when i opened orbiter its all messed up, when i zoom in the texture changes, and its not aligned right

 

[orb]

Can you post a screenshot of the issue in Orbiter?

 

[Jonathon594]

Here

 

[orb]

Looks like one patch (of 8) from level 5 is missing. Does it look better when you zoom in more, or are there other patches missing?

Have you tried to reboot the computer and then check if there are still problems with creating/opening temporary bitmap by pltex?

 

[Jonathon594]

theres still a problem opening temp bitmaps and yeah i only rendered level 7, i didnt know that would cause a problem

 

[orb]

No. You didn't understand what I meant. When you generate level 7 textures, there are as well generated level 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 textures, that are saved to the same texture file.

Your screenshot shows that a quarter of hemisphere is untextured, so it's level 5 that was displayed, which has 4 patches per hemisphere (8 patches total).

What size in bytes has the generated texture file?

Is pltex showing the name of temporary file it couldn't open?

 

[Jonathon594]

when it asked what level textures to make i told it to make 4 to 4, so only 4, but i fixed that, and i can get it to work sometimes if i close the folder before it starts, so i think thats the problem

 

[orb]

So you're saying that when you execute pltex from the explorer window and you don't close that window before generation, there will be problems with temporary files? Looks like explorer tries to preview the contents of created files. Is its view set to show thumbnails/miniatures? Is it always working fine when the explorer's window showing that folder is closed?

 

[Jonathon594]

When i complete close the folder, it seems to work fine Levels 1 through 7