faulty rendering materials

[niall mcginnis]

has anyone experienced rendering materials that when you preview or attach them they are just black. another thing about the materials is some of the computers at my school have the full materials listing and some only have 4 materials, why is this??? can i change it???

any help would be greatly appreciated as my students are starting to loose intrest because these problems.

regards

niall

[CADTutor]

I know this problem. It arrises when AutoCAD cannot find the TGA image files in the TEXTURES folder. Many of the AutoCAD materials use an image texture. If the texture is not found, the object is rendered black. The solution is to make sure that all the TGA files are in the textures folder. I think that a "minimum" install of AutoCAD does not include them. This is the same problem you have with the materials. There's no need to do a reinstall. Simply find one of your PCs that has the full compliament of materials and copy the contents of the textures folder to those PCs that have only 4 materials.

Let me know how you get on.

[Mr T]

I have had EXACTLY the same problem when I first taught Adv H last year. I have just uploaded a fix for you.

www.eezylearn.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/autocad_tips/
and scroll to tip no 4

Please check out my pupils work as a thank you.

Cheers

Nick