I rarely use Rhino 6 any more, but I do maintain a jewelry materials pack and a jewelery kit (that includes materials) for Rhino 6. I was making some updates to those and double-checking that my updates worked fine in Rhino 6, 7, and 8, when I noticed that textures appear to no longer work for custom materials in Rhino 6. Below is the same file (made in Rhino 6) opened in both Rhino 6 and Rhino 7. Rhino 7 is displaying the materials as expected. Rhino 6 is displaying them as various shades of white/light gray. In the case of environment textures, it is displaying it like a white emission material.
It’s hard to see, but the bump texture is producing a bump effect in Rhino 7 but has simply turned the cube a slightly darker gray in Rhino 6
texture test.3dm (1.6 MB)
In case it’s needed, I used the hdr linked below for the texture (but I get similar results with various hdrs)
And here’s my system info…
Rhino 6 SR35 2021-8-10 (Rhino 6, 6.35.21222.17001)
License type: Commercial, build 2021-08-10
License details: Cloud Zoo. In use by: William
Windows 10.0.0 SR0.0 or greater (Physical RAM: 16Gb)
Standard graphics configuration.
Primary display and OpenGL: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (NVidia) Memory: 8GB, Driver date: 3-12-2024 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 551.86
> Accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- Windows Main Display attached to adapter port 0
Secondary graphics devices.
Intel(R) HD Graphics 630 (Intel) Memory: 1GB, Driver date: 4-11-2020 (M-D-Y).
> Integrated graphics device with 3 adapter port(s)
- There are no monitors attached to this device!
OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: Off
Use accelerated hardware modes: On
Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On
Anti-alias mode: 4x
Mip Map Filtering: Linear
Anisotropic Filtering Mode: High
Vendor Name: NVIDIA Corporation
Render version: 4.6
Shading Language: 4.60 NVIDIA
Driver Date: 3-12-2024
Driver Version: 31.0.15.5186
Maximum Texture size: 32768 x 32768
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 32768 x 32768
Total Video Memory: 8 GB
Rhino plugins
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 6.35.21222.17001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\WebBrowser.rhp “WebBrowser”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\RhinoScript.rhp “RhinoScript”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\IdleProcessor.rhp “IdleProcessor”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\RhinoRender.rhp “Rhino Render”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\rdk_etoui.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 6.35.21222.17001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\rdk_ui.rhp “Renderer Development Kit UI”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\Alerter.rhp “Alerter”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\IronPython\RhinoDLR_Python.rhp “IronPython” 6.35.21222.17001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 6.35.21222.17001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 6.35.21222.17001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\3dxrhino.rhp “3Dconnexion 3D Mouse”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\Displacement.rhp “Displacement”