Thickness and shadow/AO view problems - Polyloop

torrentino · 4th January 2007, 18:31

Hello 3d Gurus & Gurettes,

Im running into issues with Hexagon 2.01 under OSX intel and was wondering if you could help me with 2 problems. BTW Installing 2.1 renders Hexagon useless.

Problem 1
From one of the tutorials:
I create a poly grid, teslate into quad and add thickness then validate.
Problem is that i go into poly mode to select the frame pollies but i cannot select any of the new polies created, only the original teslated grid pollies (4).

Problem 2
I tried this with VBO on and off. My shadow and ambient occlusion views dont work correctly. I see a very contrasted and broken shadow (looks faceted). Ambient occlusion is even worse, it looks like i rolled the object over black ink, not the smooth shading i was expecting.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions, comments, etc...

rickei · 5th January 2007, 03:33

not really sure about #1, I can't say that I have had that problem
as for #2
My G5 is not intell, but in H2.1 I can't work at all with ambient occlusion on. it just crashes repetitively... as you said it is useless.
personally I dont work with anything higher than "smoothed solid". with the "light map off" and "normal display" under AO.
It's the only way i've ever been able to work without getting internal errors every few minutes.
The only solution for me is to turn AO off

torrentino · 6th January 2007, 00:36

It seems that i might as well save up for silo since i had an easier and error free time using the demo.

Any idea whether daz will release a UB patch or are we screwed?

4th January 2007, 18:31	#1 (permalink)
torrentino Vertex Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 5	Thickness and shadow/AO view problems Hello 3d Gurus & Gurettes, Im running into issues with Hexagon 2.01 under OSX intel and was wondering if you could help me with 2 problems. BTW Installing 2.1 renders Hexagon useless. Problem 1 From one of the tutorials: I create a poly grid, teslate into quad and add thickness then validate. Problem is that i go into poly mode to select the frame pollies but i cannot select any of the new polies created, only the original teslated grid pollies (4). Problem 2 I tried this with VBO on and off. My shadow and ambient occlusion views dont work correctly. I see a very contrasted and broken shadow (looks faceted). Ambient occlusion is even worse, it looks like i rolled the object over black ink, not the smooth shading i was expecting. Thanks in advance for any suggestions, comments, etc...

6th January 2007, 00:36	#3 (permalink)
torrentino Vertex Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 5	Thanks for reply It seems that i might as well save up for silo since i had an easier and error free time using the demo. Any idea whether daz will release a UB patch or are we screwed?

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5th January 2007, 03:33	#2 (permalink)
rickei Respect the Dawg! Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: USA - Conway, South Carolina Posts: 791	not really sure about #1, I can't say that I have had that problem as for #2 My G5 is not intell, but in H2.1 I can't work at all with ambient occlusion on. it just crashes repetitively... as you said it is useless. personally I dont work with anything higher than "smoothed solid". with the "light map off" and "normal display" under AO. It's the only way i've ever been able to work without getting internal errors every few minutes. The only solution for me is to turn AO off