topic Re: strange elevation problem in Modeling

strange elevation problem

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:28:27 GMT

why is the furniture appearing when they are inside the building?

Re: strange elevation problem

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:40:43 GMT

You seem to be having a lot of problems with your hidden line removal. This seems like it's probably related to your beam priority issue. Perhaps it's video/OpenGL related.

Re: strange elevation problem

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:37:56 GMT

Options > Element Attributes>Materials >…Transparency + Elevation settings >Model Display > Uncut Elements > Transparency

Re: strange elevation problem

Djordje — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:52:23 GMT

WENDY_NEVERLAND wrote:
why is the furniture appearing when they are inside the building?

A stupid question:

Did you check whether your wall material is transparent?

Anyway, in the elevation layer combo, the interior furniture layer should be off.

Re: strange elevation problem

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:25:25 GMT

Djordje wrote:
WENDY_NEVERLAND wrote:
why is the furniture appearing when they are inside the building?
A stupid question:

Did you check whether your wall material is transparent?

Anyway, in the elevation layer combo, the interior furniture layer should be off.

not so stupid, i thought that transparency might be a problem, but in this case its not.
its strange and i think it has to do with the vectorial shadow. when i turned it on it was ok and after 3-4 times loading the elevation that happended.
i only changed the wall priority-furniture have priority too?
i had a problem with beams and walls and i lowered the wall priority so if the furniture is stronger could this happen?

also if i close the layer there are things in the elevation i need. like trees and people. you think that i should create an exterior furniture layer? is this useful?
thanks a lot for your time

Re: strange elevation problem

Djordje — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:07:03 GMT

WENDY_NEVERLAND wrote:
also if i close the layer there are things in the elevation i need. like trees and people. you think that i should create an exterior furniture layer? is this useful? thanks a lot for your time

It is very useful.

Everything that should not be seen in elevations, sections, 3D, should be on the layers that are off in the relevant layer combination that is of course a part of your view settings.

Cuts down regeneration time, and scales down the possible problems that might happen.

Now that you have mentioned the sun shadows, that might be the thing. I am having curious happenings in shadowed elevations if the lib parts are on - mostly older ones from the Silver Bullet times ... like cars and trucks.

Re: strange elevation problem

Barry Kelly — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:05:14 GMT

WENDY_NEVERLAND wrote:
why is the furniture appearing when they are inside the building?

I have seen a bug where an object in front of a wall with a hatch pattern assigned to the material will corrupt the display of the hatch pattern.
In particular with round objects such as a sphere.

Because the hatch won't show properly the wall becomes transparent.

Try deleting the man object in front and then regenerate the elevation to see what happens.
Just a hunch.

Barry.