topic Re: AC27 Surfaces from previous AC26 Project in Installation & update

AC27 Surfaces from previous AC26 Project

Duane Meyers — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 21:41:50 GMT

I just installed AC27 with the update. The first project I opened up is an AC26 project and none of the custom Surfaces imported. How can I make this happen globally?

iMacPro 2017

2.3 GHz 18-Core Intel Xeon W

Radeon Pro Vega 64 16 GB

128 GB 2666 MHz DDR4

14.0 (23A344)

Re: AC27 Surfaces from previous AC26 Project

Lingwisyer — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 01:01:22 GMT

As in your get purple squares telling you there are missing surface images? You get a message on launch telling you of missing things?

Re: AC27 Surfaces from previous AC26 Project

Barry Kelly — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 01:04:01 GMT

Surfaces are attribute that are saved in the file, so all the surfaces you had in the 26 file should still be there when you open it in 27.

The textures used for the surfaces are saved in a library, so make sure you have the same libraries loaded if you used custom libraries.

If you just use the default libraries, you may need to load the migration libraries as well (although I doubt this affects surfaces).

Barry.

Re: AC27 Surfaces from previous AC26 Project

Duane Meyers — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:06:00 GMT

Purple squares is exactly what I am getting. I did not get a Message upon launch of missing items.

Re: AC27 Surfaces from previous AC26 Project

Duane Meyers — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:06:52 GMT

That was my assumption as well, but they did not import.

Re: AC27 Surfaces from previous AC26 Project

Lingwisyer — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 01:10:50 GMT

So your library report returns no missing things? If you open the relevant texture, can you trace where it is getting lost?

Re: AC27 Surfaces from previous AC26 Project

Barry Kelly — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 01:15:50 GMT

Black and purple squares means the texture image is missing - the surfaces are there but the texture images used in those surfaces are not in a loaded library.

Check your Library Manger and in the warnings you will see all of the missing textures.

It may even show a missing library that you need to load.

As soon as you load the library with the texture files in it, it should all be good.

Barry.

Re: AC27 Surfaces from previous AC26 Project

Duane Meyers — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 20:15:06 GMT

So after shutting everything down and just walking away... the next attempt to open AC27 with the same previous file, everything came in as it should have. Baffling to say the least, but at least baffling on the good side today.