Blender2Crystal Rendering Question

[CaptBewil]

This shot was rendered using Blend2cs dos-promt program in Hardware Mode:


This shot was rendered using Blender2Crystal 0.6 in Hardware mode using Shadowed:


My question is about the wierd coloration.  If I use Standard mode then it renders more like the above screenshot except that it doesn't render shadows on the floor any more.  If I render using Diffuse or Shadowed, then it gives this weird coloration effect.

Any ideas?

[jorrit]

What hardware do you have?

[CaptBewil]

Athlon XP 2800+
GeForce 6200
1 GB RAM

Win XP

I'd get a copy of the log for you, but I'm still at work...

[jorrit]

Athlon XP 2800+
GeForce 6200
1 GB RAM

Win XP

I'd get a copy of the log for you, but I'm still at work...

Try updating your OpenGL drivers from www.nvidia.com

Greetings,

[CaptBewil]

Driver update did nothing...

Oddly enough, if I convert the sector mesh to a Thing, it changes to this:


In this case, the discoloration is more or less where the shadows would be...

[CaptBewil]

Any ideas of what might be causing this?

[jorrit]

No idea I'm afraid...

Greetings,

[genjix]

We have also been having this problem (the main menu is using shadowed). When we showed Frank a screenshot he told us to try a base materialmap for all the textures of 128,128,255 (which I haven't tried yet) and seems a bit redundant to me.

[CaptBewil]

I'm going to try to add a normal map tonight.  There are no normal maps being used in the above shots and the above shots 'odd' colors are similar to those found in a normal map.  Jorrit, does that seem like a logical cause for this error?  That normal maps are required when using 'diffuse' and 'shadowed' renderloops?

[CaptBewil]

That was it.  You HAVE to have a normal map of some kind (someone should add that to the Wiki).

Shadowed render_loop + clq lighting = t43 VVi/\/1

New question now that I have that resolved:

For whatever reason, since I added normal maps, the lights tend to flicker on and off depending on wheather I'm looking directly at it or not.  Any thoughts?

[genjix]

We have also been having this problem (the main menu is using shadowed). When we showed Frank a screenshot he told us to try a base materialmap for all the textures of 128,128,255 (which I haven't tried yet) and seems a bit redundant to me.

Err, I meant normal map not material map

[CaptBewil]

Any thoughts on the flickering?