topic Re: Missing Materials in Installation & update

Missing Materials

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 09:56:00 GMT

Archicad crashed and I had to reinstall because the 3D window wouldn't generate. Upon re-installation, 2 add-ons were missing (selections & something else I can't remember) Now the materials in 3D objects are not correct. Any thoughts?
Using Archicad9 on a Mac.

Re: Missing Materials

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 13:26:14 GMT

kristenji wrote:
Archicad crashed and I had to reinstall because the 3D window wouldn't generate. Upon re-installation, 2 add-ons were missing (selections & something else I can't remember) Now the materials in 3D objects are not correct. Any thoughts?
Using Archicad9 on a Mac.

It's not clear why you needed to reinstall, but that probably overwrote or lost track of the add-ons, which presumably were loaded/added after the original installation.

What is wrong with the materials? Are the wrong materials being applied or is the default (pen color) being used (ie materials are missing)?

Re: Missing Materials

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 17:38:00 GMT

AFTER UNINSTALLING ARCHICAD, I DRUG ALL REMAINING FOLDERS INSIDE THE ARCHICAD FOLDER INTO A NEW “HOLD” FOLDER. I THEN REINSTALLED ARCHICAD INTO A NEW FOLDER. THE “HOLD “ FOLDER IS STILL IN MY APPLICATIONS MENU.

I INSTALLED ArCHICAD ON A DIFFERENT COMPUTER (mac iBook G4) WITH THE SAME TEXTURE JPG FILES. IT WORKS FINE. HOWEVER, ON MY CURRENT COMPUTER THE JPG FILES FOR TEXTURES (EITHER 3RD PARTY OR ARCHICAD’S OWN) ARE NOT BEING HANDLED PROPERLY. BY ALL APPEARENCES, THE MATERIALS CREATED FROM THESE JPGS ARE OK UNTIL I OPEN A 3D IMAGE AND THEY ARE OBVIOUSLY MISSING

Re: Missing Materials

Dwight — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 18:19:15 GMT

That's a view default problem - maybe.

When you reinstalled, OpenGL preferences might have been reset to NOT show textures.

Just a big maybe....

see attached

Re: Missing Materials

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 23:46:01 GMT

I have since uninstalled Archicad again and dragged all files to the trash. During the uninstall I received this message[/img]p

I reinstalled Archicad and now it locks up when I try to generate anything in a 3d window. I've used new project files with reset profiles. Doesn't matter. This is the same problem I had prior to my reinstalling Archicad the first time. (the materials-textures problem was in the aftermath).

Any ideas?

Kristen

Re: Missing Materials

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 00:52:20 GMT

Ok.... I did a spotlight search for everything graphisoft on the computer. Trashed and burned it all. All preferences...everything. Reinstalled Archicad..New file, default profile, create slab...hit 3d and it locks up.

I'm thinking there has been a corruption in panther and its time for an os x reinstall.

Has anyone had any similar problem?

Kristen

Re: Missing Materials

Eduardo Rolon — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 02:07:13 GMT

Never seen that problem, but some options

Try to find a copy of a program called Onyx (free), in either versiotracker or macupdate, that works with Panther to see if clearing the caches and the cleanup routines for the OS helps you out before doing a reinstall. AS always do a backup.

Run Disk Utility (under applications->utilities) and do a repair permissions.

Re: Missing Materials

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 15:45:35 GMT

Just a follow up.

I reset preferences using both Onyx and Disk Utility.
Also ran routine maintenance scripts from Onyx.
Reset PRAM.
Nothing helped. So I reinstalled Panther. Now everything is back and functioning properly. It seems something was corrupted at the OS X level. All my project file central databases appear to be intact.

Thanks all for your help.

Kristen

Re: Missing Materials

Dwight — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 15:52:34 GMT

I'd be backing up my hard drive about now if I was you.