BAT - Troubleshooting & General Discussion

[Jasoncw 11,840]

Can you show us a screenshot?  It could mean several things.

[Jazzmaster 716]

How exactly do you you get a screenshot on this site? When I press the print screen key to place it on the clipboard, the file's to big to upload here...

[Jasoncw 11,840]

You use the image editing program's crop tool to make it smaller.

Then you use an image hosting service like imageshack (search google), and you use that.

[lil_momo 0]

I got a problem. Whenever I do a preview render / render it doesn't show the whole building ( if the object reaches a certain size of course; small houses ain't a problem ).

Example:

Hope you can help!

[autoVino 26]

Click the "refit lods" button in the parameters section.

[lil_momo 0]

 Thanks!

[Jasoncw 11,840]

And also the reset cameras and lights button.

[rockraider 0]

I'm having a problem with texturing. Yesterday I was texturing a building, I saved it. I came back today, and it won't let me apply a texture to anything! I tried all the textures I have, and none of them will apply.

[Jasoncw 11,840]

Go to modifiers>UV Maps>UVW Map, and add a uvw map to it.

[rockraider 0]

I've got another problem

What's with the blue box over my model? More importantly, how do I get rid of it? I'm trying to design a building, not a blue box....

[Jasoncw 11,840]

As you can see, they are the LODs. The LODs are the 3D objects that will be used in the game. In the game, buildings are these 3D objects, with pre-rendered images of buildings overlayed on top of them.

You can delete the LODs whenever you see them, new ones will be generated before you export it.

Or you can hide them (or anything) by right clicking the objects, and then hiding them from the menu that comes up.

[AndisArt 2,066]

Just wanted to say that for everybody who has the problem with not being able to choose different nightwindow intensities: Try using Dusktrooper's nightwindow map "Oatmeal". It creates a look that appears as if different intensities were applied. Download on STEX.

[rockraider 0]

I've got a texture problem. A couple of my textures won't show up in the preview. They get replaced by an off-while colour. I can see them when I desgin, but not when I preview them. Thye did show up before, but now they don't.

[Jasoncw 11,840]

Did you add the uvw map?

[Jazzmaster 716]

Originally posted by: Jasoncw You use the image editing program's crop tool to make it smaller.

Then you use an image hosting service like imageshack (search google), and you use that.quote>

 

None of my image editing programs let me open the file.  Is there any way you could list out possible problems/ corresponding solutions?

[rockraider 0]

Yep, I applied a UMV map. Still nothing...

edit:  The one that has a problme has nite lighting on it. It's coming though as light only. I've tried lighting up windows beofre, and it worked. This time, however...

edit:  Now nothing is showing up...

[Jasoncw 11,840]

YoshiIsland:  Press the "Prnt Scrn" or "Print Screen" key on your keyboard.  This copies the screen.  Then you open an image editing program, create a new file, and paste the screenshot into the new file. 

RockRaider:  Did you click on the blue checkered box?

[rockraider 0]

Yep.

[Jasoncw 11,840]

You have a light shining on it?  If the light is too bright, it could be totally bleaching out the texture.  Try removing the light, and see if that does anything.

Did you move the file of the texture?  If you moved the texture file, you'll have to change the path in the material editor to the new location of the file.

Can you show a screenshot of what is happening?

[rockraider 0]

Some parts removed because I'm amking something, hopefully, for the STEX. I don't want anyone getting sneak previews.

[Jasoncw 11,840]

Double check and make sure that there is a uvw map, and that the blue checkered box is checked.

Also make sure that there is a texture applied to it.  And make sure that there is only one of the object there (if there are clones of the same object, and only one of them has the texture, the other object might be covering them up).

And if that doesn't work, just delete the problem objects, remake them, and remake the texture.

Don't worry about giving people sneak previews.  I think you should open a thread here before you release something, so that you can get feedback.  For example, your flag pole looks like it's a meter thick, and your flat roof has shingles, and the singles look to be a few meters big too.

[Blazerhawk 162]

Ok, I have a rendering issue with GMAX (that might explain a lot).

I am trying to render a building that stands about 600M tall in GMAX, with a footprint of about 120x120. It renders to the end of Zoom 5 South Night and then gives me and ERROR CODE 6.

I don't get it at all though, my computer has enough memory, no other programs are open, and I'm not  getting any OS Errors. I don't think the file is read only, but I'm not sure on that one. The Building was a free model on turbosquid, also. Please help. This is really annoying.

[autoVino 26]

This may mean that bat is having trouble working with the output files or is having trouble initializing the next render... probalby the latter.  I noticed that error six occures when the model is just too big or your computer is having trouble and gives you an unknown system exception that gets caught by the script so that the program doesn't crash and everything is nicely cleaned (ie, garbage collecting)...  btw, if you do get an os error during the script, it will show up as a generic error, such as code 6, because of a script safegaurd that's programmed in... (try...catch methods)

Sorry that I couldn't be more help...

[SimFox 802]

Gmax just can’t handle big models. It has some severe technical limitations - like amount of memory it can utilize (no more than about 300Mb if I remember correctly) also it can use only one CPU/one core and so on... All in all it's not set to punish megalomania.

Also I seriously doubt that it is possible to create a model in GMAX that at this size would look good, or even decent at Zoom5

PS 
depending on the model some optimisation may help, but that's impossible to gage without seing one...

[Jazzmaster 716]

Thanks for helping me out, Jasoncw!  Here's a screenshot below this text (sorry if it's a bit blurred).  You can see where the unsightly bulge forms at the bottom of the spline.

[autoVino 26]

This is because that one strange point is a bezier or smooth point (this means that you draged your lines, not click, let go, click let go... dragging is used for smooth lines, the latter is for what your doing).  Click on the modify tab and where it says line click on it once.  Select that strange point, right click and set it to corner.
Hope that helps!

[Jazzmaster 716]

Well whatta ya' know, it works! Thanks a ton!

edit:

Originally posted by: andisart Just wanted to say that for everybody who has the problem with not being able to choose different nightwindow intensities: Try using Dusktrooper's nightwindow map "Oatmeal". It creates a look that appears as if different intensities were applied. Download on STEX.quote>

 

Could you please provide a link?  I can't seem to find it but could swear I've seen it before...

Thanx!

[pitch 0]

I have a problem with missing props.

After a long absence I reinstalled Simcity and downloaded some bats and lots. But now I have missing props on the original Maxis parks

Can somebody tell me what I need to download. I have the building props 1 and 2 and I tryed to put them in both pluginfolders (allways in one at a time)

[jugioh1012 2]

Hi! How do can I make a City Journal or just any forum?

[Jasoncw 11,840]

Neither of these have to do with the BAT, but oh well.

Pitch, you probably need to increase your graphics settings in SC4.

Jugioh1012, it says "New Topic" at the top of the page, next to "profile".  For information on starting CJs, go to the CJ forum and read the threads at the top of the page there, they will give you information.