Material changing at render

[bpileggi]

I made a material for tile. So I have a map of it in the diffuse color. It looks fine in the preview. When I render however, it comes out grey or with some kind of tone of amalgemated color of the colors of the tile maybe? Anyhoo. I figured out that what it's doing is spontaneously setting the 'map channel' in my diffuse>color>map to '2'. Everything looks fine when it's in 1. whenever i render it automatically sets it to 2 for the render and then it's 2 when I go back and look at it

[bpileggi]

Material changing at render

sorry I forgot to mention the tile was working fine (minus scale issues) for a while, until I photoshopped several options and started trying them.

[joe_b]

Material changing at render

The difference is probably because in the material preview its just a sphere that is spherically mapped - so the uvs most likely won't match up with whatever surfaces / objects you have applied the material to in the scene. Its meant as an approximation of the material - what this material would look like applied to a sphere.

[bpileggi]

Material changing at render

IT actually goes grey on me. in the preview and in the model. Then I go back and the map channel is set to 2. I set it back to one, and the preview looks great and I hit render and it's all grey. Then I throw monkey feces at my screen and stomp off shrieking like a little girl. Then I remember I can make a new material and re-setup everything. That seemed to work. but I still have it in there in case anyone wants to come see the mystery material. I usually get about 1-2 per project that do that. and another 2 that dissappear. meh.

[joe_b]

Material changing at render

Oh ok - yeah that is fixed now. Sorry about that channel swapping thing - I thought I had fixed that in beta3 but I neglected one spot where that stupid issue pops up. It should be good to go in our next build (which I think should be available tomorrow or friday )

[bpileggi]

Material changing at render

You completely failed to aknowledge the monkey feces Joe. I thought you were cool man.

[joe_b]

Material changing at render

Thats just how awesome my speed reading is - all I saw was "channel 1...2" and immediately knew what it was. I wish I had noticed the monkey feces, it would have brightened my day. I never thought a situation would occur where I would say that sentence...I guess I can scratch that off my todo list.

[bpileggi]

Material changing at render

Congratulations. we're all so very proud for you

[bpileggi]

Re: Material changing at render

Hey there. We're still getting the channel swapping bug. This is a whole new installation on a whole new rendering computer, having nothing to do with mine. It's the latest release and everything.

[joe_b]

Re: Material changing at render

Hey there. We're still getting the channel swapping bug. This is a whole new installation on a whole new rendering computer, having nothing to do with mine. It's the latest release and everything.

hmm, ok - I'll see if I can track it down. Thanks

[m.ribaut]

Re: Material changing at render

Yes I still have the problem too ... What I noticed is when I close the render window or when I cancel the render it reset the materials onto channel 2 ... but not when I let the renderings finish ...

[joe_b]

Re: Material changing at render

Strange - I'll see if I can figure out why that would cause that effect.

[bpileggi]

Re: Material changing at render

Any luck? I'm still getting this damn thing. A very large reason why we haven't done more with this program so far is because of the time it takes to work around this. We did get a spiffy new computer though so perhaps that will improve the time required as well. Having fun at camp, can't wait to see you and dad.

Love,
Brandt

[joe_b]

Re: Material changing at render

Any luck? I'm still getting this damn thing. A very large reason why we haven't done more with this program so far is because of the time it takes to work around this. We did get a spiffy new computer though so perhaps that will improve the time required as well. Having fun at camp, can't wait to see you and dad.

Yep I think I've tracked the tricky bastard down. Make sure you put on your sun tan lotion.

[m.ribaut]

Re: Material changing at render

Good job !!! Can't wait for an update !!!