Photoworks materials?

[Theophilus]

After upgrading to SW 2003, I cannot seem to get surfaces to display their PhotoWorks colors in my SW window. Also, when I render, the properties are not applied to my surfaces like they were in SW 2001.

Am I missing a setting somewhere? Normally I'll pick selected surfaces and texture them differently just like I would a normal injection-molded part. PW lets me do this, but doesn't display the results--neither in the rendering nor the SW window.

I have not yet installed any SPs, so am still at 0.0. Also, I have the "overwrite SW properties for render" on and the other option off. Any ideas?


Jeff Mowry
DesignHaus Industrial Design

http://www.designhaus-i-d.com

 

[rockguy]

I had the same problem when I first installed 2003. I went to PhotoWorks/Options and set the ray tracing option to adaptive and unchecked cache model geometry. Sounds weird but changing those settings did the trick.

 

[Theophilus]

That is weird, but it worked on my office system. I'll need to try it out at home and see what happens.

Thanks a ton! I don't know how I would have guessed that.


Jeff Mowry
DesignHaus Industrial Design

http://www.designhaus-i-d.com