Blocks not rendering in nXt

[alexinfla]

Hello everyone,

 

I'm a long time Accurender user.  I have an essentially simple model that has a few objects that are blocks.  The objects are not rendering at all.  They only render when I explode the blocks.  does anyone have an idea what the issue may be?

 

Your help and cooperation is greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Alex

[Eric B]

 

Had the same thing happen just now to a bed, sink and toilet block all of which were old AR3-AR4 blocks taken from the Blocks and Materials CD's that shipped with AR3.

The bed would show up in the views but not render at all.

No matter what I checked or did the item was just not rendering - as if it was not there. Checked my layers, did an audit, purge etc...

Luckily I had just saved a working version of the same file so I was able to get back to a working set of furniture. From this I was able to make some comparisons.

 

1. The items appear to disappear if they have been set to layer 0 and inserted on layer 0 originally. If they are inserted while set to some other layer they do not appear to develop this vanishing ability.

2. I too am on AutoCAD 2008 so it might be a problem with older versions of AutoCAD.

3. These were copies of blocks that had been inserted. The original blocks continued to render - very much like the TREES that would vanish after the 4th or 5th copy, these blocks would do the same.

 

After I explode the blocks they work - I did notice that the Open GL image of the bed did change, that is the texture maps did update a bit after I had exploded the object so there was something going on as far as AR5 understood the object.

 

Unfortunately I believe I have totally fixed the problematic file so I no longer have a broken version to share. The next time it happens I will attempt to send a copy to Roy and gang.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

Thanks-- the original issue seen by alexinfla was closed-- it related to trying to render ACA objects in non-ACA AutoCAD.  What you're experiencing is likely a different problem.

There is no "OpenGL image" anymore-- WalkAbout uses AutoCAD for its display.