Need help, cant load a material from the nXt file

[Tony Jones]

Hi Guys,

Need help here, I have been using this program for some years now, and have just reinstalled nXt318 due to a crash.

My problem is I can't create new materials from the nXt Material file which I have RE-downloaded. I can open the file and select the material I want but it does not appear in the nXt materials window. I have tried reloading the file, re downloading etc but to no avail.

Its as if nXt does not recognize the file???

Any thoughts as to what I may be doing wrong, I right in the middle of a project and need these files to work to save time, i am sure you understand?

Thanks again!!

Tony

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

What type of material files do you mean?  Are you referring to individual .nXtMaterial files or to legacy material libraries from previous versions (ar4/ar3)?

[Tony Jones]

Hi,

its the .nXtMaterial files, I can access some of them but not all of them, they just wont load into nXt.

Any clues as to why?

cheers

Tony

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

Not offhand-- attach a file that's failing and I'll take a look.

[Tony Jones]

this is just one of them, no matter what I do i cant get it to load

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

 No problem here.  I did the following:

1. Downloaded the material.
2. Opened a new drawing and typed nXt.
3. Using the Get Material from File button I opened the material file-- the material appeared in the list.
4. Just for fun, drew a sphere and attached it

If you're doing something different to produce the failure, let me know.  If not, use the About AccuRender nXt... pulldown and let me know what it reports for a version.