V1.00.74 bug- Bug Splat when trying to alter scale of texture

[Jackson_cg]

I've tried 5 times to alter the scale of the texture image of materials in SU's native material editor; the first 3 times I got multiple "The parameter is incorrect" error messages (which would reopen on closing) and then Bug Splats and the last two times I just got an infinite loop of error messages.

Whatever number I try to type into the scale box e.g. 50, 500 or 5000 it just shows up as 5.000mm, hangs and then the error message comes up. I have to Ctrl+Alt+Del to get out of SU.

[thomthom]

Re: V1.00.74 bug- Bug Splat when trying to alter scale of texture

I'm assuming you're using the Service Release, correct?
And you have your SketchUp Material window set to something other than the Colour Wheel?

That's the problem then. Use the Colour Wheel and you won't get the error.

Yes, the Colour Wheel is annoying, but unfortunately it's the only mode that works with current Service Release version. I've reported it to the VfSU team and they've managed to reproduce it and are working on a fix.

[thomthom]

Re: V1.00.74 bug- Bug Splat when trying to alter scale of texture

By the way, it's not jsut the scale that triggers the bug when you don't use the Colour Wheel, it's any property in the SU Material Window.

[Jackson_cg]

Re: V1.00.74 bug- Bug Splat when trying to alter scale of texture

Thanks Thom,

Yep I'm using the SR (see topic title), glad to hear you found the culprit and ASGvis are working on a fix.

Uuughhh, colour wheel, I don't even understand why they still include that in SU's options. :P

Thanks for the workaround, but judging by V1.00.74's parse times I'm going to have to revert back to V1.00 if I'm going to get any actual paid work done.

[thomthom]

Re: V1.00.74 bug- Bug Splat when trying to alter scale of texture

I spent ages trying to track down the triggering cause of it. And I found it just by chance because I'd never thought that the mode of choosing colour was the culprit. It was only because that I installed V-Ray on my second machine, which by default SU uses the Colour Wheel. At first it worked fine and I couldn't understand why. Then I just happen to alter one material where I changed the colour picker and I would get the error on my second machine as well.

What amazes me more is that there hasn't been more reports on this. I can only assume that people actually uses the Colour Wheel, even though it's the most inaccurate of the colour pickers.

I'm still using the original release at work as I find it more stable despite it bugs. But I use SR1 at home to test and prod the new version. dalomar has said in other threads that a new update to SR1 should be around the corner. So cross your fingers and keep filling in them bug reports. (In case you're not aware of it, the AsgVIS team prefer that bug reports are submitted to them via their bug report mechanism and not just on this forum. There should be a link in one of the Sticky threads of this forum section. Bug reports on the forum are nice for the other users though so we can see what bugs other people have discovered.)

[Jackson_cg]

Re: V1.00.74 bug- Bug Splat when trying to alter scale of texture

Thanks for the replies Thom, I haven't used the bug report system yet as I suspect most of my bugs are well known, I just haven't been able to find the fixes to them.

Jackson

[thomthom]

Re: V1.00.74 bug- Bug Splat when trying to alter scale of texture

Thanks for the replies Thom, I haven't used the bug report system yet as I suspect most of my bugs are well known, I just haven't been able to find the fixes to them.

Jackson

Report them just in case. I thought the parameter error was a widespread thing. But it wasn't.