Woo, was gone a while! Well, I *finally* got P5 (woot!) and have been working on my dragon Seraphina again. When I first started messing with P5, I could load models without problems. But now, when I load an outside object, it shows up as solid white, and I can't get it to appear correctly! I tried reversing the normals, asigning new materials, nothing works. Anyone know what's going on? It's quite possible that it's just my clunky computer, I've seen a computer kill the color in a single program for no reason before. But I want to know for sure before I give up. (FYI, my clunker is a 400Mhz Pentium 2, 64MB RAM x_x )

64mb of ram o.O...OMG!!!!(no offense)...I have enough trouble with 2G of ram...YIKES!!!!!

Maybe that's part of your problem ;)

Message edited on: 10/11/2004 19:04

Check your ambient colour. Set it to black and value 0. It looks to me like your ambient colour in the material room is white and set to 1.

Probably RAM is the problem. A 400 Mhz PII may be a bit slow, but it still should be able to handle P5, though I wouldn't advise creating multiple figure scenes with V3/SP/M3/David! But increasing RAM to at least 256 MB will probably help - and then you can also run a better OS, like Win2K or WinXP - each and every program will run better and faster! Hope you can still find some 100/133 Mhz SDRAM modules!

No, that's ambient coloring, lol

Display menu --> Figure Style --> Silhouette?

It was ambient coloring. I don't know how it got set to that, and why all new props have it set that way =/ Meh. It's fixed now, thanks all =)

ynsaen's alway sgriping about how the ambient channel in wings defaults to bright white -- and that's exactly how all of those things come into poser -- 4 or 5. Is how I knew it was ambient. :)