I am trying to use Rhino to show the view from a room to a mountain range. I have imported a mesh from a DEM file and have nice landscape BUT when I position a rhino camera in the room I cannot see all of the landscape and sometimes the walls are missing. I just need a shaded screenshot showing the mountain through a specific window. Is there a setting I can change? I’ve already tried to increase the rhino mesh display from “jagged” to “smooth”.
If you alt+scroll to zoom doss that help-
thank you for the advice but it doesn’t really help. Sometimes it works slightly better but other times it just glitches and has the same issues.
systeminfo?
Rhino 6 SR30 2020-10-14 (Rhino 6, 6.30.20288.16411, Git hash:master @ aa50c15036dbe0dbd38214d6ca94d76dbecda24d)
License type: Commercial, build 2020-10-14
License details: Cloud Zoo. In use by: xxxx
Windows 10.0 SR0.0 or greater (Physical RAM: 8Gb)
Machine name: BIRCH
Non-hybrid graphics.
Primary display and OpenGL: NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 (NVidia) Memory: 2GB, Driver date: 7-24-2019 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 432.00
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: Height
Vendor Name: NVIDIA Corporation
Render version: 4.6
Shading Language: 4.60 NVIDIA
Driver Date: 7-24-2019
Driver Version: 26.21.14.3200
Maximum Texture size: 32768 x 32768
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 32768 x 32768
Total Video Memory: 2 GB
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C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\AnimationTools.rhp “AnimationTools”
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C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots”
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C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\3dxrhino.rhp “3Dconnexion 3D Mouse”
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The size of the z-buffer has been stretched too far. Video cards sort objects into depth layers. There are a limited number of these layers. So if something is large and one piece, but you are concerned with a view that needs depth accuracy to properly hide in small area, there are problems. To test this try and hide the landscape. Do a zoom extents and see if the hide comes back properly. In the past I have fixed this by breaking up the landscape into parts. This can allow better sorting. Or for a rendering, render the landscape from the view and them use that rendering as a backdrop.
Thanks Scott, this sounds exactly like the issue. I didn’t realize it had a name! I will test this later and see if I can reproduce what you are explaining here. Do you think a newer and fancier graphics card will solve the issue? I have a work computer with more horsepower that I can VPN into to test this
Hello - I would test before buying… I am not 100% convinced yet that it is due to the number of depth sorting slices… it looks like the camera near clipping plane is too far forward - the cause may be the same I don’t know, but I would try hiding as much of the scene that is behind the camera as possible - preferably everything, even if just as a temporary troubleshooting measure, any of the landscape mesh that is outside the camera view - does that make any difference?
-Pascal