Sad face on the editor!

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I know that I’m going to get sad face on the editor when the screen goes black for .1 seconds. I’m used to this now …is it common?

This indicates that WebGL behind the canvas tag displaying the editor has crashed.

This rarely happens, but is almost impossible to debug without directly encountering it.
This also often occurs on older hardware or with outdated drivers.
This can be mitigated by reducing the amount of content rendered on screen; in this case, WebGL will have less computation to do and might display something.
In any case, it’s very difficult to debug because it happens without warning, between the software layer and the graphics driver.
Unfortunately, I have no magic solution to recommend other than newer hardware with better specifications.

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Cheers @Bouh …there’s a lot of information on the editor that gets read at the beginning of the scene into arrays and then deleted.
It’s not doing it all the time at the moment. I’ll try driver updates and save save up for new hardware!