Topic: Black Sky

[archnatalie]

Hey there
I get a black sky and very dark shadows 

my pc is Lenovo z570 I7 , 6GB RAM , 64 bit with two GPU cards ,is the problem with the installation of lumion itself ? or in my pc ?
 
please replyy me , my final submission is getting closer and i have to render many shots

[See3D.be]

Looks to be a videodriver issue, make sure latest is installed.

[archnatalie]

u mean update the driver???

[See3D.be]

yes videodriver

[peterm]

Looks like you are using an old version of Lumion, suggest you also download and use the latest.

[archnatalie]

im using lumion sp2.b5 is it old ?

[arch_bd]

im using lumion sp2.b5 is it old ?

UPDATE THE VIDEO CARD (GRAPHIC CARD) DRIVER

[archnatalie]

thank u guys
will update it tomorrow and notify u
thanx alot

[peterm]

im using lumion sp2.b5 is it old ?

SP2 B5 is an old version 1, not even the latest of that version it was SP2 B8.

Go to the Lumion web site and here at the forum, latest is V2.1 B4.

If you do not use at least a version of V2.1 then its very hard for the dev team to support things, especially if it relates to a bug that already been fixed.

Also, do you have ATI cards?  There is a known issue and fix, search forum.

[archnatalie]

well i use nvidia card
actually i dont know that much about pcs :S

[Morten]

my pc is Lenovo z570 I7 , 6GB RAM , 64 bit with two GPU cards ,is the problem with the installation of lumion itself ? or in my pc ?

The most important factor is the graphics card and whether you use Windows 64-bit with sufficient system memory. Based on the information you have provided so far, I don't know which graphics card your laptop shipped with (Is it an Intel HD Graphics 3000?).

Please run "DXdiag" in the Windows Start menu -> Click on "Save All Information", and attach the dxdiag.txt document to your next post (Click on "+ Additional Options" below the text field). This allows us to check what hardware you are running Lumion on.

[archnatalie]

hey
i have attached the DXdiag information
my friends installed lumion on lenovo I3,I5 ,and my pc is a new one
could it be because of a wrong installation for windows 7??

[Simoni]

Hi I am also having these Black sky and shadow issues, screen suddenly went dark.
See attached.

I have 6 GB memory, windows 64 bit, GTX 460 (1GB), and a very good quad core CPU .
 Lumion is  only using about 1500MB of RAM, and I have about 2GB of RAM not being used,
according to the Task Manager.

Have done all of the following , no difference:
Updated the video card driver,
Checked I have the latest Lumion version (V2 1B4),
Run screen at low resolution,
See if its still bad when I render a photo or film.
Its only like this on a couple of Lumion files, but one of them worked fine before, will try and delete the items I brought in before it went bad (2D people).

[Morten]

These are 2 different issues, Simon.

@archnatalie: The Intel HD graphics card in your laptop is unfortunately not suitable for Lumion, so you have no choice but to use a PC with a more powerful graphics card. There's more information here:
http://lumion3d.com/forum/f-a-q/lumion-2-minimum-hardware-requirements/

You should also consider upgrading to Lumion 2 as the latest version is more memory efficient.

@Simon: The problem you are referring to has already been reported in the Bugs & Issues section, and is pending a resolution. The symptoms are that the Weather section sliders are suddenly all set to 0, but it has only happened a small handful of times, so as of yet, the cause is still unknown. As far as I know, the only "resolution" is to adjust the sliders until your scene looks right again. Apologies for the inconvenience - I hope we find a way to reproduce this bug!

[Simoni]

Thanks Morten!