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

[Vijay S. <vij...@gm...>]

I can live with that materials issue for now, though I understand your point
about there possibly being other problems.  I looked in to the updating the
driver, and as far as I can tell, I have the newest driver for my hardware.
That'll probably change later on though, so I'll keep an eye out for an
update.

Thanks for the heads up.

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Bruce Sherwood <bas...@nc...> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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