Please let me know

I am following the documentation (mforge manual) which states that if you
select preview mode material a - you should see something reflected.  All I
see is a black box there where the preview sphere should be.  On all of
these example files, it is the same.  I took some screen shots to help
illustrate the point more effectively.

In the sample file - lacqeur_project - I selected the object named 1
and then looked at the settings on it. It has the mforge
shader applied, in the diffuse section.  Procedural settings
on this are set as viewed in the attachment - where you can see the missing
preview sphere despite the settings of that texture in the sample file being
diverse.  Something should show up here!

When I render this file, I get a very odd result.  Everything is all dark.

I did other experiments, and it appears that all items this shader are
applied to appear dark and I cannot get a good result.

Also - the shader itself appears completely black in the palette - I do not
know if this is normal, or if it helps at all, but this is what it looks
like in the shader palette on my machine (see last screenshot)

Of course - the test documents I am using came directly from the konkeptoine website,
with no changes made by me (except to point to the right place on the hard
drive).

I am at a loss of what do do, is there anything you can think of that would
make the shader not work on my machine?  Am I doing something wrong?

I am running the older version of ei to get these plugins to work ( eias
5.5.3) and I am on an older power mac running osx 10.4.10

I can’t seem to find it anymore.

Thanks.

FelixCat

I think i mentioned this before to Matt, but i’d like to see how many in the forum uses ArchiCAD combined with Electric Image. Graphisoft has an old export plug-in for EI v2.9. Graphisoft already once wanted to take out this plugin from the save dialog 2 versions ago if i recall it, but fortunately last minute they decided to leave it untouched. We are still using that old export which works fantastic to the basic level, but it doesn’t export UV info and I think it has problem exporting cameras, lights, sun and most of all (which i can’t stand but gotta live with) is for curved surfaces it crates a smooth part group and straight vertical/horizontal surfaces creates flat part group. Increasing the number of group counts.
However i love the fact that it exports by layers and it childs it with a material nill group too. Makes easier to update projects when something changes, but actually that part is also limited. Need also here some better collaboration.
And the Mac version export is totally broken. ArchiCAD exports the FACT file totally empty, but something is there becuase the file has size so it’s not 0kbyte.

So I’m curious how many of you is using ArchiCAD and if somehow prove to EI to do some development in-house for at least an updated export for AC13 which comes out soon this year. Graphisoft don’t bother with it, unless I guess EI puts some pressure on them. But we need user feedback.

Thanks guys

Mishi

v8 OSX Intel

Knows somebody a trick to make Real Flow Connection Pluguin working in a loop way or frame offset?

thank you

Diego