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Persnickety little issue

allanonallanon Posts: 53
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

I have a model of angel wings, sometimes referred to as "Articulate Prop", that I'm looking to use for the first time in a couple-three years.  When I load the CR2 all I get are the faint traces of the 8 corners of a rectangle. So I found the down load for it on the net, downloaded and replaced the one I already had. Same results. So then,I applied a texture file to the wings, but that didn't work; the model is still not visible. Next I checked the "Opacity" value in the Surfaces tab. No luck. Finally set the draw style option to "Solid Bounding Box" which shows the model as plain grey boxy parts, but they do not accept textures either.  I'm using v. 4.9.2.70

I have a gut feeling that the issue lies somewhere in the CR2 file, but I have no idea where to look for it. Any thoughts? sad

Comments

  • JamesJABJamesJAB Posts: 1,766

    Have you tried to do a render of the wings?  The issue that you are seeing may have to do with how the preview window is trying to display the transparencies.

  • allanonallanon Posts: 53

    Thanks for the response, I hadn't thought of doing that and just did: still the same. even tried to render the view with the solid bounding box but still nothing . The more I think on it the more I'm believing that the issue isn't in the CR2 file but rather somewhere in the deep, dark bowels where the sun can't shine of my program settings.

  • JamesJABJamesJAB Posts: 1,766

    Are you sure that those wings are a stand alone item and not an expansion for a different product?

  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 6,067

    I had something liek this with an item I bought at 'rosity.  Strangely it worked finf in the copy of DS3A I still had, but exhibited the same issues as you mention when it was loaded in DS4 (not sure hwat version it was).  I contacted the creator and they produced a fix.  I cannot recall what it was that ws the issue, sorry.

  • allanonallanon Posts: 53
    JamesJAB said:

    Are you sure that those wings are a stand alone item and not an expansion for a different product?

    Yes, I've used them in the past without any difficulty but now they've gone kaflooey. 

  • allanonallanon Posts: 53

    I noticed in another thread the suggestion to checking the log file, so I did so with this issue. It is as follows: I'm not really sure what this all means, but apparently there's a problem with a color profile of some flavor. The refs to texture image files are all valid.

    2017-15-09 10:15:34.818 Imported: Wings of Angels.cr2
    2017-15-09 10:15:34.834 Building Scene...
    2017-15-09 10:15:34.912 File loaded in 0 min 0.5 sec.
    2017-15-09 10:15:34.912 Loaded file: Wings of Angels.cr2
    2017-15-09 10:15:34.943 WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
    2017-15-09 10:15:36.300 Ran tdlmake on image 

    J:/Content/Runtime/textures/Angel/flight_feathers_grey.jpg
    2017-15-09 10:15:36.378 Ran tdlmake on image 

    J:/Content/Runtime/textures/Angel/angel_wings_grey.jpg
    2017-15-09 10:15:36.394 Ran tdlmake on image 

    J:/Content/Runtime/textures/Angel/angel_wings.jpg
    2017-15-09 10:15:36.612 Ran tdlmake on image 

    J:/Content/Runtime/textures/Angel/flight_feathers.jpg

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,859

    ...I remember a similar situation years ago when I moved from Daz 2.3 to 3.0 with B9999's Fireworks. All I got when I loaded one of the props was dark shape with no texture.  Apparently there was a change between the two versions in how shaders were interpreted which made some (not all) older content incompatible.  The textures were updated and the product worked fine again.

    Maybe this is what happened?

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