[w i l l]

Not sure if this is a bug, has been metioned already, or some new trait of 1.7 (haven't been on forum for a while) but when I use a map that is PNG (exported from Illustrator) for texture, bump etc it displays weirdly in the texture picker preview (looks like its patterning) and therefore wont show in the render.

I remember there being a similar problem with PNG's once but can't remember exactly what it was.

[tom]

Could you post screenshots and/or files themselves?

[w i l l]

Here's what the image should look like;



And this is what it looks like in Maxwell;



A similar thing also happens in my Flickr uploader sometimes. I thought it might be due to having a transparent background on the PNG but I set it to white and strange things still happen with some PNG files.

Here is the logo;

http://www.sendspace.com/file/uepu3d

PS This forum should have a feature whereby you can attach files (or have I missed that?)

[w i l l]

[tom]

And where's the PNG file?

[w i l l]

I didnt upload it because there's not much point - any exported PNG from my Illustrator CS3 (of any size) does strange things in the texture viewer. Plus I thought you could export it from the Illustrator file. Here it is though;

http://www.sendspace.com/file/ik2w7j

[tom]

I didnt upload it because there's not much point

Contrary, it's the *only* reason, because Maxwell does not support layered (transparent) PNG files.

any exported PNG from my Illustrator CS3 (of any size) does strange things in the texture viewer.

You should make sure you are *not* exporting with "transparent" option:

Plus I thought you could export it from the Illustrator file.

Surely, I could but then I can't help, because I know how to export it properly and improperly. So, I had to see your PNG to know where the problem is.

[w i l l]

I know this already, thats why I stated in the post above......

'I thought it might be due to having a transparent background on the PNG but I set it to white and strange things still happen with some PNG files'

The point is; I tried exporting other PNG's from Illustrator with a white background and I get a similar problem.

[w i l l]

Its ok I've realised whats going on - if you click the 'switch display size' icon in the texture viewer it isn't displaying textures properly at the larger size - so it looked to me as if it was doing something weird with white background images as well - but it renders ok so thats ok.