topic White Mesh in Modeling

White Mesh

Anonymous — Thu, 25 May 2023 15:00:30 GMT

My mesh appears to be white for some reason... when I switch to the internal engine it turns green again, as I defined in the surface override settings, but the OpenGL engine shows a white surface. Even more odd, if I go into explore mode while using the OpenGL engine, the mesh goes green again!!! What is going on here?

Re: White Mesh

Karl Ottenstein — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 20:57:16 GMT

AC version? Operating system? Graphics card?

Is the green material applied to the mesh out-of-the-box, or did you modify or create this material? The appearance for Internal, OpenGL and LightWorks are not synchronized, and each responds to light differently (if at all). So, you can have green Internal, white OpenGL, and pink LightWorks. Weird, but true.

Nothing changes in my OpenGL view when I enter Explore Mode, other than that sun shadows (if enabled) are turned off. So, I wonder if you're on Windows and have an out-of-date display driver?

PS Please click the Profile text link above - to the left of "Log out" and enter (at the bottom) your AC/machine specs similar to how mine are listed.

Re: White Mesh

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 22:49:40 GMT

Hi, I found the problem myself... by accident. I was moving an object in the 3D window when I noticed a vertical white plane beside it that looks just like the 'surface' of my mesh, it turns out it's the ' editing plane ' that has been covering up my mesh the whole time.

So I went a found this: http://helpcenter.graphisoft.com/guides/archicad-17-int-reference-guide/interaction/on-screen-input-aids/editing-plane-display/, and I set the editing plane to appear only when I am editing. Problem solved

I added my computer specs as you said. I want to know though, why should the user want to see the editing plane when he/she isn't editing? It only caused trouble for me...

Re: White Mesh

Karl Ottenstein — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 00:47:12 GMT

alexwang32 wrote:
I added my computer specs as you said. I want to know though, why should the user want to see the editing plane when he/she isn't editing? It only caused trouble for me...

Glad you resolved the issue and thanks for the specs. Why editing plane on by default? I have no idea. Most of us turn it off as you have so that it appears only when editing.