textures not rendering when importing 1.7 rhino scenes

textures not rendering when importing 1.7 rhino scenes#309433

By polynurb - Mon Sep 28, 2009 5:00 pm

- Mon Sep 28, 2009 5:00 pm #309433

Hi!

i just loaded a scene i rendered last week in 1.7, and hit render.

all textured materials were rendering completly black.
i had to manually click onto the texture slots of each material to make them render, although they showed fine in the viewport.

refreshAllTextures command or MR_restoreViewport didn't do the job either.

cheers,
Daniel

workstation: EVGA SR-2 / dual x5650@3.5Ghz / quadro 4000

Re: textures not rendering when importing 1.7 rhino scenes#309436

By JDHill - Mon Sep 28, 2009 5:09 pm

- Mon Sep 28, 2009 5:09 pm #309436

Does that happen with all your scenes, or just this one? Because, it really doesn't sound like anything that would be related to the 1.7-2.0 switch.

Next Limit Team

Re: textures not rendering when importing 1.7 rhino scenes#309442

By polynurb - Mon Sep 28, 2009 5:24 pm

- Mon Sep 28, 2009 5:24 pm #309442

looks like it.. tried two different scenes and both have the problem.. however the 2nd gave me a clue.. only in channels 0<n textures disappear , channel 0 renders fine.

workstation: EVGA SR-2 / dual x5650@3.5Ghz / quadro 4000

Re: textures not rendering when importing 1.7 rhino scenes#309444

By polynurb - Mon Sep 28, 2009 5:29 pm

- Mon Sep 28, 2009 5:29 pm #309444

also many of the materials import in a funny way:

workstation: EVGA SR-2 / dual x5650@3.5Ghz / quadro 4000

Re: textures not rendering when importing 1.7 rhino scenes#309451

By JDHill - Mon Sep 28, 2009 5:42 pm

- Mon Sep 28, 2009 5:42 pm #309451

That's a different issue, which will be fixed in the next update; for now you'll have to delete the empty layers. Apparently, the 1.8.3 plugin was creating extra layers in certain cases - I was unaware of that until after 2.0 was released.

On the original topic though, I reinstalled 1.8.3, created a scene that used a bunch of different projectors, went back to the new plugin, opened the scene, and it renders fine. So I still don't know how to duplicate the issue.

Next Limit Team

Re: textures not rendering when importing 1.7 rhino scenes#309464

By polynurb - Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:46 pm

- Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:46 pm #309464

alright.. initially i wasn't sure if the black textures were somehow connected to the layer issue.

i now got a simplified scene for you, which has the problem. please check you PM

i exported two objects and "gathered files" .. upon reopen it still rendered black, so i hope you will be able to reproduce.

thanks,

Daniel

workstation: EVGA SR-2 / dual x5650@3.5Ghz / quadro 4000

Re: textures not rendering when importing 1.7 rhino scenes#309466

By JDHill - Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:51 pm

- Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:51 pm #309466

Thanks, I'll take a look...

Next Limit Team

Re: textures not rendering when importing 1.7 rhino scenes#309471

By JDHill - Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:16 pm

- Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:16 pm #309471

Thanks, it worked the same here. The problem is caused by those extraneous layers - as they are using normal blending mode, they are simply hiding everything below. So, this will no longer be a problem in the next update - until then, just open the material in the material editor, select the top layer, and hit delete until the empty layers are gone. It looks like these extra layers were being generated by the 1.8.3 plugin when a material had displacement enabled.

Next Limit Team