I was messing around with a drawing in Artistic mode tonight, and discovered that if i select a polysurface and then rotate my view, the background either goes completely black, or flickers black intermittently.
Does this only happen when the Skylight is enabled in the Render Properties? Also, what graphics card is Rhino using and what OSX version are you running?
I just checked, and i get this happening with Skylight on OR off.
Software information
Software versions
Rhinoceros version: 5.0 (5A854)
IronPython version: 5.1.2015.131
Language: en (MacOS default)
OS X version: Version 10.10.3 (Build 14D136)
Hardware information
Computer hardware
Hardware model: Macmini4,1
Processor: Intel Core2 Duo CPU P8800 @ 2.66GHz
Memory: 8 GB
Architecture: Intel 64 bit
Video hardware
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256 MB
Memory: 256 MB
Screen size: 1920 x 1200
Displays: Cinema HD (99dpi 1x)
OpenGL information
OpenGL software
OpenGL version: 2.1 NVIDIA-10.0.31 310.90.10.05b12
Render version: 2.1
Shading language: 1.20
Maximum texture size: 8192 x 8192
Z-buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum viewport size: 8192 x 8192
Implementation settings
Use texture compression: Yes
Appearance settings
Antialiasing: 2x
Mip map filtering: None
Anisotropic filtering: Medium
Thanks for the info. I’m not able to reproduce this display issue here so my thought is that it’s hardware specific. @marlin @jeff any ideas? The white viewport issue is also a problem… Viewport whiteouts
hey Brian…
try opening a new file
make two boxes
switch to artistic
click (select) one then click on the other then click on the other etc…
nothing happens
apply a material to one of the boxes (via MaterialEditor …plastic high gloss for example)
then do the selection switching.
do you see it now?
(if not, the above will repeatably trigger it for me)
Software information
Software versions
Rhinoceros version: 5.0 (5A854)
IronPython version: 5.1.2015.131
Language: en (MacOS default)
OS X version: Version 10.10.2 (Build 14C109)
Plug-ins
/Users/jeff/Library/ColorPickers/SkalaColor.colorPicker/Contents/MacOS/SkalaColor
Third party kernel extensions
com.nvidia.CUDA (1.1.0)
Hardware information
Computer hardware
Hardware model: iMac14,2
Processor: Intel Core i7-4771 CPU @ 3.50GHz
Memory: 24 GB
Architecture: Intel 64 bit
Video hardware
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4096 MB
Memory: 4096 MB
Screen size: 2560 x 1440, 1920 x 1200
Displays: iMac (109dpi 1x), SyncMaster (94dpi 1x)
USB devices
Apple Inc.: Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Inc.: FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Apple, Inc: Apple Keyboard
Logitech: USB Receiver
Bluetooth devices
None
OpenGL information
OpenGL software
OpenGL version: 2.1 NVIDIA-10.2.1 310.41.15f01
Render version: 2.1
Shading language: 1.20
Maximum texture size: 16384 x 16384
Z-buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum viewport size: 16384 x 16384
Implementation settings
Use texture compression: No
Appearance settings
Antialiasing: 4x
Mip map filtering: None
Anisotropic filtering: None
Yep, I see that too… thanks for the specific steps. I filed it as http://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/MR-2088
I can see something similar here too… But I have no idea what’s happening. The way the frame buffer gets updated is somewhat different on the Mac, so it’s possible something is getting dropped in the process. @marlin might some ideas, but at the moment, I’m at a loss.
Note: I’m on a MBP 13" retina display.
-J
When I go into Artistic mode, the background goes black immediately.
When I click a box, then the background goes ti the Artistic image.
If I change the object property to be material by object, the background goes black again but the material panel shows correctly.
I dragged a low gloss plastic into the Model Materials, changed it to black, then dragged it onto the two boxes.
Now as I alternately select the boxes, the background goes black sometimes and corrects itself others, without an obvious pattern.
I’m running Marlin’s old MBP with Yosemite and a GeForce GT 330M with 512MB Vram