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(>;O_>)> Tweaked · Member Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 7 Location: Las Vegas

Whenever i put in a skybox, my 3d view screen freezes, but just the screen nothing else. Is there a suggestion? is my graphic card just whimpy or something? Sad

my graphic card is an ATI Radeon 9800 PRO and ATI Radeon 9800 PRO SEC

mappy · Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 8:55 am Post subject:

Ha ATI cards ... Rolling Eyes

Can you see your skybox in the 3D view ?

Do you have the lastest drivers version for your card ?
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Daaark · Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 12:17 pm Post subject:

Are the dimensions of the image in powers of 2?
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Brian · DeleD PRO user Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 98

I am using an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 graphics card and have no problem with the skybox.

I am also running XP Pro VPack2.

The graphics I use are 512 x 512 @ around 66KB for each of the 5 images.

I may just mention that I have 1.5Gig memory and a 3GHZ processor. Maybe that is why it works well?

Hope this helps you?

Kind regards Brian

Daaark · Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 3:06 pm Post subject:

There should be some notes for the users in Deled to use power of 2 textures, or at least something in the help file. It's not obvious to everyone. Even people opening up shops to sell textures for game making don't know the power of 2 thing. Rolling Eyes

Maybe an entry in the FAQ?

Q: Whya ren't my textures working?
A: POWER OF 2!

Mappy, that avatar is very nice.
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Jeroen · Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 3:24 pm Post subject:

Good idea VD - we'll put it in our help file a.s.a.p!

Btw, your avatar is less nice than Mappy's. I don't like people staring at me... Twisted Evil

mappy · Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 4:02 pm Post subject:

(>;O_>)> Tweaked · Member Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 7 Location: Las Vegas

That might work, but now i just re-opened DeleD Lite and it says

Now what is it!? Confused

btw, in case you haven't realized, i'm new in the 3d modelling department and you'll probably see me on here a lot

And I have no clue why you put rolling eyes after ATI Confused

It says it has something to do with missing material

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jwatte · DeleD PRO user Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 513

mappy · Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 5:19 am Post subject: Re: another problem

Jeroen · Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 6:08 am Post subject: Re: another problem

Welcome!

Brian · DeleD PRO user Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 98

Hi Vampire. I first encountered the power of 2 a few weeks ago when exporting graphics into Enliven. Now I see that there are refferences to it here.

Could you explain what the power of 2 is and how do you save a graphic with the power of 2?

Please excuse my ignorance here, but This is new to me.

Kind regards Brian Embarassed

mappy · Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 4:18 pm Post subject: Re: Power of 2

Daaark · Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 5:00 pm Post subject:

Won't bother with the long 2x speech again, I don't feel like typing it our right now. You always want the dimensions of your textures to be 1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048,etc->(keep doubling).

There are a lot of assets out there (like TextureBin) that are free to use, but they are made with raytracing software in mind, and not real time apps. You will have to resize them yourself, or crop them.
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(>;O_>)> Tweaked · Member Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 7 Location: Las Vegas

Hrm... I made my image 512x512 and it still just freezes my 3d view, all the other windows are just fine, and can work properly, it's only my 3d view that messes up. After I hit ctrl+f3 again, it goes back to normal, but without the skybox... still no luck here...

and the error thing is fixed, i just reinstalled it. (package and executable)