THE LIGHTWAVE 3D VISUAL CRASH REFERENCE GUIDE:

For about 5 years now I have been screen capping Lightwave annoyances.
I have lost some really good ones; but here are those that I saved.
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A scene file Layout corrupted on save.

LAYOUT:

Common, run of the mill, crashes:
[WinXP] [Win2000] [OSX]* [Not Responding]

Layout corrupted saved scenes (that load): [1] [2]

Crashes on load:
Layout will not run: [1]*
Loading scene contents: [1] [2]
Failure when reading PATH: [1] [2]

OpenGL/GUI Errors:
Polygon errors: [1]
HV sprites/Textures: [1]
GUI rendering: [1]
Weird panel redraw: [1]*

Random shit:
When clicking "continue" in "Render Status": [1]
Lightwave says there are 16844292 (or 1056) points for this object, but there are more: [1]
Saving Motion Mixer data: [1]
Crashes in mid-deformation: [1]
Error loading plugins: [1]

Bugs:
The Win2k Language bug: [1]
SubD UV texture warping: [1]
Flare2Alpha problems: [1]
Raytraced transparency alpha problems: [1]*

MODELER:

Very rare, here are some pictures of them taken in the wild:
The most common: [1]
Error code 602 "Internal Fault of unknown origin": [1]
Weird OGL rendering in weightshade: [1] [2]*
Some kind of memory allocation error: [1]*

Oddities:
Persp view uses multiple lights, one colored the same color as the backdrop.[1]*

LWSN:

These are often more ambiguous: [1]