Direct3D and Groundplane

Direct3D doesn’t work well with Groundplane.

The shadows are missing.
And the automatic height is not right.

Display mode = Shaded.

Still.

Rhino 9 SR0 2025-7-24 (Rhino WIP, 9.0.25205.18305, Git hash:master @ cb53d236b68cd0e9329d3bee3f4b7f1a32a433cd)
License type: Commercial, build 2025-07-24
License details: Cloud Zoo
Expires on: 2025-09-07

Windows 11 (10.0.26100 SR0.0) or greater (Physical RAM: 32GB)
.NET Framework 4.8.9310.0

Computer platform: DESKTOP

Standard graphics configuration using DirectX
Primary display: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 (NVidia) Memory: 8GB, Driver date: 1-26-2025 (M-D-Y). DirectX(11)
> Accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- Windows Main Display attached to adapter port #0

Secondary graphics devices.
None found.

DirectX Settings
Safe mode: Off

OpenBLAS: OpenBLAS 0.3.29 DYNAMIC_ARCH NO_AFFINITY Zen MAX_THREADS=64.

Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\SimLab\Plugins\SimLab 3D PDF From Rhino 6\plugins\SimLabPDFExporter.rhp “SimLab PDF Exporter”

Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 9.0.25205.18305
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\WebBrowser.rhp “WebBrowser”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\RhinoScript.rhp “RhinoScript”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\IdleProcessor.rhp “IdleProcessor”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\UpdatesAndStatistics\UpdatesAndStatistics.rhp “UpdatesAndStatistics” 9.0.25205.18305
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\RhinoRenderCycles.rhp “Rhino Render” 9.0.25205.18305
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\rdk_etoui.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 9.0.25205.18305
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\MeshCommands.rhp “MeshCommands” 9.0.25205.18305
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 9.0.25205.18305
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 9.0.25205.18305
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\3dxrhino.rhp “3Dconnexion 3D Mouse”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\Displacement.rhp “Displacement”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\SectionTools.rhp “SectionTools”