Loading...
> >

Easy Environments Greenlands suddenly appearing black when loaded into DAZ Studio Pro.

CA415CA415 Posts: 165
edited December 1969 in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

This is very strange.

Suddenly, when I load the DAZ Easy Environments Greenlands product into DAZ Studio Pro 4.6, the preview window no longer displays the skydome image but a solid black background. The "Sun" light is present and on, but only when it renders, does the sky appear. In preview mode nothing but black.

Any ideas why this suddenly started happening?

Last week everything loaded normally and the skydome image appeared in the preview window as a blue sky with clouds, now, nothing but a black background.

Any help would be appreciated.

Comments

  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,119
    edited December 1969

    Make sure you are viewing inside the dome and not outside. Make sure the dome is selected and then click on the small square box with the dot in it to take you to world centre and see if that works.

  • CA415CA415 Posts: 165
    edited December 1969

    Thanks, Sandy.

    Yes, I always open DAZ Studio at the center of the scene. I can hide/unhide the skydome, but in Smooth Shaded mode, it now appears black.

    All of the scene objects appear in the preview window (in the screen-shot examples you can see the floor plane.)

    The screen-shots show the four Shaded display modes. Two modes successfully display the Skydome in the preview window, but I always prefer the Smooth Shaded mode for preview.

    Everything was fine last week.

    Could this be related to the video driver? nVidia installed an automatic update several days ago.

    2014-10-24_07_45_04-DAZ_Studio_4.6_Pro_-_DrawStyle_-_Wire_Texture_Shaded_-_Skydome_Appears_.png
    914 x 916 - 1M
    2014-10-24_07_43_52-DAZ_Studio_4.6_Pro_-_DrawStyle_-_Cartoon_Shaded_-_Skydome_Appears_.png
    910 x 913 - 990K
    2014-10-24_07_43_01-DAZ_Studio_4.6_Pro_-_DrawStyle_-_Texture_Shaded_-_No_Skydome_.png
    910 x 908 - 470K
    2014-10-24_07_41_14-DAZ_Studio_4.6_Pro_-_DrawStyle_-_Smooth_Shaded-No_Skydome_.png
    908 x 909 - 67K
  • CA415CA415 Posts: 165
    edited December 1969

    Problem solved!

    After uninstalling and reinstalling both DAZ Studio 4.6.3.52 and both of the "Eternal Sands" and "Greenlands" SkyBox products, the problem persisted.

    I continued digging and when I referenced the "Surfaces" tab for each of the SkyBox products, I discovered that the "Diffuse Strength" was set to "0".

    Moving the "Diffuse Strength" settings back up to 100% resolved the problem.

    How that happened, I can't imagine since I rarely touch "Diffuse Strength."

    Stranger still, why after uninstalling and reinstalling both DAZ Studio and the SkyBox products, were both product's "Diffuse Strength" settings still at "0" ?

    Thanks, again, for your help, Sandy.

  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,119
    edited December 1969

    It is good that you managed to get it sorted. I can only assume that when loading the SkyBox they are setting the diffuse to "0" but if that was the case then it would go to zero every time they loaded.

Sign In or Register to comment.