topic Re: White Surfaces in Bimx in BIMx

White Surfaces in Bimx

Brett Brown — Tue, 09 May 2023 12:36:37 GMT

Hi all, Why am I getting all white surfaces in the 3D model coming out as light gray in the Hyper model? Both the 3D model and Hyper model use the internal /open GL engine so why are they not the same?

Earlier versions of Bimx use to open in the Hyper model, now it opens in the 3D model and you have to select the "browse hyper model" then "open 3D model" when I only have the one view. Is this the normal way now?

Any quick setting to stop all the weird shadows created at the intersection walls to ceilings and sometimes furniture sitting close to the walls?

Cheers

Re: White Surfaces in Bimx

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 07:07:08 GMT

are you rendering with global illumination turned on? can you attach a screenshot?

Re: White Surfaces in Bimx

Brett Brown — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 23:52:45 GMT

Yes I am rendering with Global Illumination turned on. See attached before and after

This new forum was to change max size of attachments from 500kb to 5mb. seems it is still set to 500kb. Mine are 900kb so won't attach. Could moderator please fix, cheers

Re: White Surfaces in Bimx

Laszlo Nagy — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 20:31:07 GMT

Brett wrote:
This new forum was to change max size of attachments from 500kb to 5mb. seems it is still set to 500kb. Mine are 900kb so won't attach. Could moderator please fix, cheers

Maybe there is a problem with the dimensions of the image (number of pixels, maximum is 1920x1200), not the file size.

Re: White Surfaces in Bimx

Brett Brown — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 10:44:10 GMT

If I click the error triangle after the file name it states the file has to be under 500kb, files are under the pixel size limit

Re: White Surfaces in Bimx

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 12:48:42 GMT

This is strange, I have checked in the Administration part of the forum and the maximum file size for any attachment is set to 5 MB, which is a global setting. I will investigate.

Re: White Surfaces in Bimx

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 20:45:42 GMT

Can you show a screenshot that shows the error message that you get when you try to attach that file?

Re: White Surfaces in Bimx

Brett Brown — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 09:33:15 GMT

Here you go

Re: White Surfaces in Bimx

Laszlo Nagy — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 09:55:57 GMT

Thanks. I will report back when we found some answers.

Re: White Surfaces in Bimx

Laszlo Nagy — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 14:48:36 GMT

Brett, can you now try to attach this same image to a post?
The forum database guy made some modifications to attachment-related settings.
I would like to see if it helped in your case or not.

Re: White Surfaces in Bimx

Brett Brown — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 07:58:35 GMT

Hopefully the two instances attached
Looks like it worked, thanks Laszlo

Re: White Surfaces in Bimx

Erwin Edel — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 09:45:22 GMT

Not sure about the desktop application (haven't used it in forever), but on the mobile app you can switch the display settings to 'simple lighting' or some such (sorry the app is in Dutch) under shadow settings, which basically gets rid of any global illumination shadows and such darkening corners and affecting surface light. It also adds edge lines in black, making everything look more illustrative (if that is even a word, if not, I'm coining it!). Allthough you do end up wit some unwanted lines here and there.

Re: White Surfaces in Bimx

Laszlo Nagy — Sat, 10 Mar 2018 10:19:02 GMT

Brett wrote:
Hopefully the two instances attached
Looks like it worked, thanks Laszlo

Great news Brett, so that setting change did have the desired positive effect.
I will let the developer know.