[greengreen]

I am having some unusual effect where my surfaces seem to be getting large holes put in them when rendered. I have a series of "hill" pieces of geometry, and their tips are getting cut off so that they look like volcanoes.



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This is the material (which also looks too opaque in the rendering, but that's another issue):



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This is the geometry showing up in Maxwell Studio:



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And this is the geometry in Rhino:



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I selected a bunch of these hills and added a texture map to them on channel 1 that is "spherical", is this a texture mapping issue? I had them textured as "surface" before, rather than "spherical", but I didn't get the tiling I wanted with the "surface."

Thanks for your help

[greengreen]

I uploaded the animation I was rendering, but I think I will have to figure out this material issue and restart it.

here is the link:

http://vimeo.com/liblab/test

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmT2ZL1-0J8

[JDHill]

Thanks, from the looks of it, I will not be able to diagnose this issue without seeing the Rhino file & associated textures.

[greengreen]

I can upload the file, but I just realized I may have an answer...can there be two texture maps on the surface? It appears that the "holes" might be just a large tile of the texture (a scaled up version of the texture)? Correction though on my initial post, I have the texture maps as "surface" and not "spherical." Sorry for the confusion



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[greengreen]

I had forgotten to change the materials mapping number. This is noted in the plug-in help PDF on page 15, last paragraph.