Why Does mt arch&design Render black

[damob23]

Any one have any idea why this redners black, I selected glazed ceramic tile in the material editor, in arch design mental ray? Im sure im doing something wrong, Could it be an option under enviorment rollout,

[Cad64]

Could it be that those polys are flipped?

[hazardman]

just in case, are you rendering with mental ray?..also i noticed that there is a map assigned to the diffusion and reflection slot...are the path's in max set up to look in the proper directories to find these maps?

[damob23]

Yup I am rendering with mental ray,? could there be an issue there, the maps are part of the ceramic glazed template so I assume they are looking in the correct location.

[Cad64]

Are you sure you have Mental Ray selected as your renderer? I just applied the arch & design material to a box, switched to the scanline renderer and the box rendered black, just like the image you posted.

[damob23]

Yup Im using mental ray, I noticed something, In my material editor screen grab up there, When I click on the map in the diffuse area of the material properties rollout, and in this rollout under advanced controls, under texture is none. I replaced this with a standard texture and it renderend as orange tiles, how ever the tiles were crocked and looked strange for some reason.

[Cad64]

the tiles were crocked and looked strange for some reason.

Did you map your UV's before applying the texture?

[damob23]

So by that you mean, Apply a UV map to the surface, No I dont didnt but that would explain it, I will try it, thanks for that

[Cad64]

For anyone who doesn't know, here's a great tutorial explaining UVW Mapping: http://waylon-art.com/uvw_tutorial/uvwtut_01.html.