Hi David,

You mean the low-poly trucks that shipped with DVSP 4.x?  Are you using these with the Autodesk Civil Visualisation Extension?

Hi Bruce,
Yeah your right i didnt realise we had copied them in and they werent supposed to be with the Autodesk Civil Vis Extension.  I’m still not sure what’s going on with the materials, have had a bit of a play with them.  Is there any steps that i should check with them?

Regards

David

David Lind - 29 August 2010 10:21 PM

Hi Bruce,
Yeah your right i didnt realise we had copied them in and they werent supposed to be with the Autodesk Civil Vis Extension.  I’m still not sure what’s going on with the materials, have had a bit of a play with them.  Is there any steps that i should check with them?

I have finally got to a point where I quickly dragged over the old vehicles.  If you bring across the old meterial then it should work a treat.

The only thing that I have noticed is that AVCE doesn’t have the fake shadow option.  Bruce, is this something that might return?

I did end up getting it sorted with the materials.  Yeah i just seleted the faces for the face shadow as it didnt work out properly.

Anyone noticed that in ACVE they have kinda stuffed up the linemarking editor?  Width is now mark length etc Not a big problem just strange.

David Lind - 15 September 2010 12:33 AM

I did end up getting it sorted with the materials.  Yeah i just seleted the faces for the face shadow as it didnt work out properly.

Good stuff.  I’ll get to it at some point too.  Had fun with memory issues last night and I’m sure they could have been solved with using the old vehicles.

David Lind - 15 September 2010 12:33 AM

Anyone noticed that in ACVE they have kinda stuffed up the linemarking editor?  Width is now mark length etc Not a big problem just strange.

Really?  I’ve been working on two jobs and not noticed this.  Mind you, I have only been applying a predetermined style from file and not used the editor.

I’m doing a traffic simulation so i really needed the low poly cars!  Think i would have had big trouble using the new ones

Peter Cook - 14 September 2010 08:42 AM

The only thing that I have noticed is that AVCE doesn’t have the fake shadow option.  Bruce, is this something that might return?

No, it won’t return.  It’s not seen as necessary these days with renderers like mental ray which can produce shadows much more efficiently than the old scanline renderer.

David Lind - 15 September 2010 12:33 AM

Anyone noticed that in ACVE they have kinda stuffed up the linemarking editor?  Width is now mark length etc Not a big problem just strange.

This was actually an attempt at making things more consistent between the Road Marking Parameters rollout and the Road Markings Style Editor.  Previously, the parameters were in a different order in these two panels.

When AVCE was first released, there was a bug in this panel which was corrected literally a day later.  Therefore, if you are seeing the wrong values change when you adjust the spinner controls in this panel, you might want to download and install the product again.  Alternatively, you could just wait until the next release…

Bruce Harfield - 15 September 2010 08:40 AM

No, it won’t return.  It’s not seen as necessary these days with renderers like mental ray which can produce shadows much more efficiently than the old scanline renderer.

Fair enough.  Mind you, some of us still use the old scanline renderer

Bruce Harfield - 15 September 2010 08:43 AM

Alternatively, you could just wait until the next release…

How close is that?  Any heads up on new features?  Or is it bug fixes and slight enhancments?

Peter Cook - 15 September 2010 10:52 PM

How close is that?  Any heads up on new features?  Or is it bug fixes and slight enhancments?

Unfortunately, I can’t say as much as I used to be able to.  My hands are tied by Autodesk’s rules about making (or rather not making) forward looking statements.  This essentially boils down to them being a publicly listed company, which brings a whole list of do’s and don’ts to the table.