I want to know if this is just me. I was working on the Palm Beach scene that I made. I decided I wanted the preview to be of better quality. So I hit the textured option. Nothing happened. I waited, still nothing.

I closed that scene. Then I opened a new one. I placed a sphere in the scene. I applied the checkers preset. It instantly showed the texture in the view. Then I changed the resolution of the texture from within the Interactive Render settings. It updated the changes.

The only way I can get my Palm Beach file to use a specific rendering mode is to set those options then save it. When I reopen it they work. However, it wont recognise other setting. Meaning if I set it to 512 texture size and save all is fine when I reopen, but if I then try to set it to a lower resolution, nothing happens.

I am using a 6800GT.

What also is strange is once I open this file and try to adjust the settings, the setting dont work right for subsequent scenes. The simple sphere scene that was working properly and allowing me to change interactive render settings now will not work. But if I close Carrara and create a "new" sphere scene the settings are fully adjustable. I believe this is some kind of bug but I would like to hear from others.

Donnie

Message edited on: 11/30/2005 17:57

See the Textured Preview Quality thread just a couple down. Especially the last response by Mark Bremmer. If you are working with Carr5 report it as a bug I suggest.

Well I have determined that it is just in this one scene that it happens. If I open other scenes I can adjust everything and see changes. However, once I open this scene and try and adjust the settings it will not work. After that, any scenes I open behave the same way, until I relaunch Carrara, then they work fine again.

Well I fixed it. Since it was only happening in one scene I deleted objects one by one and resaved. Then reopened the file to see if it was fixed. If not I moved on to another object. The offending object was a surface replicator. With it gone from the scene the interactive renderings settings changed and updated as they should. What the problem is I do not know. I have a copy of the original scene that was causing the problem, perhaps Eovia can shed some light on it.

Message edited on: 11/30/2005 20:48

Exactly Mark. I have participated in many betas over the years. I wanted to check here first though to see if anyone else had experienced the same problem. I have reported the bug as well as e-mailed Charles. Hopefully he can figure out what is up with the scene.

Ok, I can now reproduce the bug at will. First I create a new scene. Then I insert a terrain. Insert plant. Then finally insert surface replicator. At this point I can still change the interactive settings and they update. Even after I make the plant a child of the replicator. But as soon as I choose the terrain in the surface replicator I lose all interactive settings. Actually I can still use what I was using but I cant adjust them on the fly. Instead I have to set them where I want them, save the file and restart Carrara. I would be interested if anyone else can reproduce this bug. Thanks, Donnie

This appears to have been corrected. :)

Ok, good to know. Thanks.