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Author Topic: Texture errors write themselves to older files.  (Read 2596 times)

Simoni

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Texture errors write themselves to older files.
« on: February 10, 2011, 12:07:26 pm »
February 10, 2011, 12:07:26 pm
Lumion is wonderful but...in RC4 and RC5 there has been a worrying glitch in that if a texture has been wrongly applied, and in both cases it has been water, then, without undo, I try and open a previous file version, say many hours old, the texture error also appears in these old files! This is mad and illogical, my hardrive is not haunted.
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Ferry

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Texture errors write themselves to older files.
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2011, 12:17:40 pm »
February 10, 2011, 12:17:40 pm
Remember that all projects share your content library. So saving a scene which uses an imported model does not save a copy of that imported model with that scene. So changing the imported model later also changes it for your old scene!
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Simoni

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Texture errors write themselves to older files.
« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2011, 12:31:51 pm »
February 10, 2011, 12:31:51 pm
The point is I do not save the scene with the error, maybe the autosave facility does this , which to repeat my earlier rant, is giving me help that I could do without.
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Simoni

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Texture errors write themselves to older files.
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2011, 12:56:37 pm »
February 10, 2011, 12:56:37 pm
Strangely the texture reverts back to its correct material, in older file version if I select it (it was glass, not water as I mistakenly said) in the horizontal tally of material assignments at the bottom of the interface, I just click on the assigned glass icon, then on custom icon (of the 8 choices  in the materials editor) then in magically reverts back to its correct texture ie. a slate texture.
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Ferry

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Texture errors write themselves to older files.
« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2011, 01:15:19 pm »
February 10, 2011, 01:15:19 pm
We don't overwrite any old file automatically with autosave to get back to your rant. I can't make anything out of what you are saying is happening with the materials. Also the original textures are never removed so using a standard material will always give you back your textures. Glas just hides them.
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Simoni

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Texture errors write themselves to older files.
« Reply #5 on: February 10, 2011, 02:01:49 pm »
February 10, 2011, 02:01:49 pm
I do not save the files with texture errors, thats what makes it so illogical. This has happned twice now and is very worrying.
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Ferry

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Texture errors write themselves to older files.
« Reply #6 on: February 10, 2011, 02:43:20 pm »
February 10, 2011, 02:43:20 pm
Remeber that if you in some project drag in a model from the library and you edit the material that it automatically SAVES that model! Models are not saved per project they are saved accros the whole use of Lumion.
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Simoni

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Texture errors write themselves to older files.
« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2011, 03:05:46 pm »
February 10, 2011, 03:05:46 pm
This is pretty worrying, without a proper undo, I can make mistakes which I discover a few minutes later, too late.. Lumion just writes it into the unsaved model?

Without a proper undo feature this is impractical, I would prefer the changes saved to the library only when I say so, ie when I save my changes.

Too much happens automatically, snapping, saving, I spend most of my time trying to undo these great labour saving features, literally days.
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Morten

Texture errors write themselves to older files.
« Reply #8 on: February 16, 2011, 01:24:19 pm »
February 16, 2011, 01:24:19 pm
Hi Simon,

We've got a couple of entries on the Functionality wish list which deal with this issue, i.e. implementing a system which allows you to save materials as model-independent files so to speak, so that you can create your own material library:


  • Save/Load user-created materials to avoid having to create them again in other scenes

  • Save/Load user-modified Lumion materials to avoid having to create them again in other scenes

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