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Digital Entourage
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When we used to use Ar2, 3 & 4 we had a folder called digital entourage. This was just as it sound a group of materials that were quick & easy to assign; brick, carpet, plastic laminate, eifs, etc. If my memory is correct this was from a disk that McNeel marketed many years ago. When we transferred to NXT I did the convert legacy library and many if not most updated and looked and acted as expected. Yesterday, I went back to the library to pull a specific material from there and the entire folder was populated by black orbs instead of the correct preview. I did an edit on a couple of these and found that no mater where the color settings were they still showed black orbs as the preview. Also all of the maps were missing. I don't know if the maps were there before but the previews looked fine and the materials assigned and rendered. So last night I went back to the base directory where the originals materials were and ran the convert legacy materials agian. This morning I have more black orbs.
Any ideas here? Somewhere along the line I was having trouble with some of the legacy glass materials, that was not a hard thing to overcome as we have lots of newer glass materials that are quick & easy to edit. Unfortunately for quick rendering on some project the digital entourage was a useful tool to just grab a few things and go. I'd hate to have to create/recreate too many of these - it kind of defeats the purpose.
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Permalink Reply by Roy Hirshkowitz on
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This is very likely a search path problem-- you need to make sure nXt can find the textures associated with the materials. I'm pretty sure (but not 100% sure), that the converter now produces embedded textures, so once the thing is converted it should be portable.
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Permalink Reply by Wayne Williamson on
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Thanks Roy
I'm not sure why but the paths in my NXT settings were missing several entries. I restored them and started the convert process over again. This time it does seem to be working as I can get previews that have the .jpg images from my desktop explorer.
Thanks again
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