Re: [Visualpython-users] objects only appear as black

[Bruce S. <bas...@nc...>]

It doesn't affect the speed of rendering. What it does is turn off the
attempt to render materials, so that

   box(color=color.orange, material=materials.wood)

displays simply as an orange box, with no wood grain. The connection
with my earlier suggestion to update the graphics driver is that
graphics cards and drivers that cannot handle these materials may
exhibit other problems as well.

Bruce Sherwood

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Vijay Somers <vij...@gm...> wrote:
> Thanks, that worked.  Does making this change lower my machine's rendering
> performance while using vpython?
>
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Aaron Miller <ajm...@al...> wrote:
>>
>> Vijay,
>>
>> I have also seen this on older hardware (on Windows, at least).  The
>> problem goes away when using the legacy shader rendering.  Make this change
>> by editing the site_settings.py file (found at
>> C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\visual for my windows install) and
>> uncommenting the line that reads display.enable_shaders = False.
>>
>> I hope it works for you!
>>
>> Aaron