As promised Jesse, Here is a bug report about a crash:
What I was doing: Trying to save out the zbuff from this set of parameters:
Mandelbulb3Dv17{
X.....k1...E9...0....2Q...kErmiQnpW0.jGc/fZ37W1EMPHSgLHAJy9ilvxZuSllzQRX9JiYFFzD
................................69HyMRXAgz1........Y./..................y.2.....
................/w.5/.....EtF...G.....E4......yBCH7wfGqD/w.........G1dkpXm1....U
./EnAnID12../..........wz..................................u1....y1...sD...../..
.wX0LD0DJ5sZZrfdYxH0xupL4R05zchyV8gPF/kDS7b5D8pLOwvDfl7l3i3NzEQsCft2ojnjXxdhsdbZ
7wPXkLVhuUxCzAGUyHUMTFqD......2R3...l1....EnAnoD/2....sD..E.....................
.............oAnAr1...sD....../Sl9.gs3j.EZLw0.TSl9.Yu3j.kgLw0.xSl9......0....6..
.....orDZz1.......kzSwzzzP.U..6.P....61...EB....m.w/.c3..b.F....8/...I1.....SF52
...U.8YL8yzlcisz0tZWzTAe906.2c..zzzz...MarH7iXyD/oa4dabdnz1..........EU/X.kzzzD.
.UNE33e7qz1.OwTW.Bkyz0.gydCjx/tjWMX0.wzzzv/..S51vojwz0.UrlkCx9zD..6.......E.0c..
zzzz.................................2U.8.kzzzD.................................
/6U0.wzzz1....................................8cU0.E./2.zz/cU08../2E.szDU08c..2E
./EzT/8cU0.E./2.Qs5cU08../2E..bTU08c..2E./.ly/8cU0.E./2.Mw5cU08../2E.kqTU08c..2E
./.kz/8cU0.E./2....cU08.zz/cU08.yz1cU08.xz3cU08.................................
E6../E....E.....I....s....UMj3aQYZYFH/EN.IaQ..........................U1C....6U/
4MU........aNaNaNaNzzAnAnAnAnH0EMaNaNaN4I.YaNaNaNaNmzAMaNaNaNaujOaNaNaNqW.2.....
.............l0E.......UH.2.......k/.1.........EnAnAnAnA5.A........yzMaNaNaNaNyD
.....................2.....3.........wZIkxqRn.kQn/kEoE4.r/......................
.sU1....0MU/46.......YNaNaNaNatjnAnAnAnAny9........kzQaNaNaNaNyDCoWgRyyd..oAnAnA
nAHwzAnAnAnAXP2k........c.2........wz...........................................
................................/....E/...k.....T3IPVdLOiRaEjVrIHJYA.sKN........
............5g..Cwk1D6U./2......aNaNaNaNkzXNaNaNaNarzAnAnAnAngzD................
.............................
MindsEye69.................kz1.....................
..........................................E.....I....2....kL4x4PYZaPb31.Z/......
...................................................../..........................
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........................................................}
Now I believe that I know what is wrong here, and it might explain why some people get crashes, When I first put these parameters up for other people to use in my #M3D-Scrap-Yard on DeviantArt, the tag MindsEye69 (in RED and BOLD above) was in a different place as you can see here
http://m3d-scrap-yard.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4sra8r. So you dont need to go to the link I will copypasta the params for you now:
Mandelbulb3Dv17{
X.....w....o0...0....2Q...EkOJL0Qxw/.D7RDygsd21E73ZfMwLYqxfpdKbIRTKhzkzrLsGKr5zj
................................cu4LbsbF/.2........Y./..................y.2.....
................/w.5/......0S...G.....E4.....oUTwlLdS1pD/w.........G0dkpXm1....U
z.EnAnID12../..........wz..................................u1....y1...sD...../..
.wX0LD0DHLPsyP7rExX8.BssgmFuyk7zsOszPvjDW/C99LO/ivfOj7iGZ.BIzkDtO5pV5LlD4oz8iiVj
xvPdtT1AJ/S3zCcPFHpmC1pD......YG3...47....EnAnoD/2....sD..E.....................
.............oAnAr1...sD....../Sz9.gsxj.EZrz0.TSz9.Yuxj.kgrz0.xSz9......0....6..
..................kz.wzzz1.U..6.P....61...EB....m....c3....F....8/...I1.....SF52
...U.8YL8yzlcisz0tZWzTAe906.2c..zzzz...MarH7iXyD/oa4dabdnz1..........2U.8.UQgk0.
.wUmc2beYz1.dA8E5Exwz0........../6U0.wzzz1................................E.0c..
zzzz.................................2U.8.kzzzD.................................
/6U0.wzzz1....................................8cU0.E./2.zz/cU08../2E.szDU08c..2E
./EzT/8cU0.E./2.Qs5cU08../2E..bTU08c..2E./.ly/8cU0.E./2.Mw5cU08../2E.kqTU08c..2E
./.kz/8cU0.E./2....cU08.zz/cU08.yz1cU08.xz3cU08.................................
E6../A....E.....I....s....UMj3aQYZYFH/EN.IaQ..........................U1C....6U/
4MU........MaNaNaNarzAnAnAnAn50EAnAnAnAnF.2........0.DnAnAnAnY.k.......UI.2.....
..............0E.......UH.2........2./..........nAnAnAnA5.A........yzMaNaNaNaNyD
.....................2.....3.........wZIkxqRn.kQn/kEoE4.r/......................
.........6U.4........YNaNaNaNatjnAnAnAnAny9........kzQaNaNaNaNyDCoWgRyyd..oAnAnA
nAHwzAnAnAnAXP2k........c.2........wz...........................................
................................/....E/...k.....T3IPVdLOiRaEjVrIHJYA.sKN........
............5g..................aNaNaNaNkzXNaNaNaNapzAnAnAnAnQyD................
........................................................kz1.....................
...........................
MindsEye69.......} <--- as you can see, my tag is 7 dots from the end. Somehow when they got re-loaded they were moved to the place in the params first listed in this post.
This, I believe is the cause of the error and the crash you see in this screenshot
http://www.flickr.com/photos/77189343@N06/6838213592/It seems to be common practice to add a tag like mine in the end of the params, and perhaps this is what is causing the errors people are getting. My suggestion is that Jesse add a text field in the interface where people can add a say 15-20 character tag or signature to thier params and have it insert them automatically in a place that would be non-destructive. People like to add this tagline because it identifies thier parameters for people who may have "accidentally" forgotten who they got thier parameters from to start with. This has happened to me when I returned to some old unfinished project to complete it, and I really wasn't sure where the particular set came from to start untill I saw the original artists tag DsyneGfx in the parameters and realized where I got it and was able to give him proper credit.
Thanks!
BTW: Before I tried to save that zbuff, my nav had become totally unresponsive to any formula changes or tweaks, so I decided to save it out and restart the program, but it turned out I got that error and clicking ok caused the program to shut down anyway. Luckily I had already saved the params. This is again also a good reason why the autosave function we were discussing in my other post would be good, because even though this is not a problem inherent in M3D, one can never predict what the user might do that might cause a crash, I understand that this is my fault since no one ever said that adding that tagline was an OK thing to do, and I myself knew that it was slightly risky to modify the parameters directly in that way. But there are a lot of people who do I, I merely copied the idea from DsyneGFX who does it with all of his parameters, so I figgured it was probably ok. Since I never had any issues till now I assumed as long as it was in the end in those empty ....'s that it was probably safe. I was obviously wrong. Still an autosave would be great for "user error", and a real tagline insertion method would also be a good thing!