I am having some issues with my Rhino 7 in which objects appear to have this metallic shade on them even when the sun/light setting is turned off. There is no specific material on the object, and I have tried resetting all of my viewports.
After opening the application, from the very beginning this setting seems to never go away. I have tried uninstalling the program and re-installing; however, nothing has changed.
I would greatly appreciate it if someone could help me resolve this issue either by reset or by a different method.
I would change the title to something like “All my objects have strange shading” or something similar (if it will allow you to edit the title…I’m not sure if all users can edit their titles or not).
Anyway, the only thing I can think of is to open the document properties window (File > Properties), click on View and then Display Modes and then select the display mode you are using (shaded?) and click on “Restore Defaults” for that display mode. (I’ve got a bunch of custom display modes I was experimenting with…you can ignore all that…I put a big X through them).
Not sure it will help, but worth a shot…but note that if you made any intentional changes to that display mode, you will lose them all.
BTW, I have a somewhat similar (but less annoying) issue. Whenever I save/open files in Rhino, my dialog window is HUGE and unsizeable. I think this stems from using a modified version of Rhino (something called Matrix) at work, and opening a file from work on my home computer (sometimes I’d get so behind at work I’d bring a project home). Because the save dialogs on my work computer were the same way (huge and unsizeable). Matrix is a massive plugin for Rhino and I feel like they tinkered with something that affected some setting on my home Rhino once I opened a Matrix file on my home PC. And it was Rhino 6 at the time. With each new installation (Rhino 7 and Rhino 8), I still get this massive unsizeable file dialog window. So whatever it is, it keeps transferring through the installation process.
Unfortunately I tried this method already, but nothing seems to be changing. It’s as if the default settings have this weird sunlight/shading to it that I can’t get rid of in all of the views (shaded, rendered, arctic, etc.)
First, make sure you the viewport is in Shaded mode. Then click on File > Properties to open the Document Properties window. Once there, (1) click on the little arrow next to View, (2) click on the little arrow next to Display Modes, (3) click on the wordShaded, (4) under the section called Shading Settings, make sure Color and Material Usage is set to Custom Material for All Objects and click on the Customize button.
A window called Custom Object Attribute Settings should pop up. Near the bottom, make sure all the settings match what is in my screenshot here, but pay particular attention that the Environment option has a check mark and that its strength is set to 30% (if it is set to a much higher number, then that is probably what has been causing your issue).
(Also, is the environment image filename rhino_shaded_mode_emap_background.png? If not, let me know)
Then click OK on this pop-up and also on the Document Properties window.
I have checked all of those settings, and unfortunately nothing has changed…
I saw on an earlier forum post that it could have something to do with the graphics card? I will attatch below my current SystemInfo settings and I’ll see if that could be of any help. Thank you.
Windows 11 (10.0.22631 SR0.0) or greater (Physical RAM: 32Gb)
Computer platform: LAPTOP - Plugged in [54% battery remaining]
Non-hybrid graphics configuration.
Primary display and OpenGL: Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics (Intel) Memory: 128MB, Driver date: 1-18-2024 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 1.1.0
> Integrated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- Windows Main Display is laptop’s integrated screen or built-in port
Secondary graphics devices.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU (NVidia) Memory: 8GB, Driver date: 6-1-2024 (M-D-Y).
> Integrated accelerated graphics device (shares primary device ports)
- This device is not being used
ATTENTION:
No graphics device is being used. Either an error occurred on startup, or certain devices have been disabled.
See below for any possible configuration changes that may help resolve this issue.
Any hardware configuration or cabling changes you make will require that you restart Rhino.
OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: Off
Use accelerated hardware modes: On
Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On
Graphics level being used: OpenGL 0.0 (primary GPU’s maximum)
Anti-alias mode: 4x
Mip Map Filtering: Linear
Anisotropic Filtering Mode: High
Vendor Name: Microsoft Corporation
Render version: 0.0
Shading Language: Not supported
Driver Date: 6-1-2024
Driver Version: 32.0.15.5599
Maximum Texture size: 1024 x 1024
Z-Buffer depth: 32 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 16384 x 16384
Total Video Memory: 8188 MB
definitely looks like that is worth trying, or it may be worth doing a clean reinstall of the graphics drivers.
Grab a new driver from nvidia, then install it using the custom/advanced option- then look for the small “clean install” check box. Tick that and let the installer run, restart and check your rhino systeminfo again. it should list the Nvidia as the primary open gl or show the intel being passed thru to the nvidia.
So, @akirasid , it sounds like you may want to get the latest drivers from nvidia and be sure to do a clean install per Kyle’s instructions above. Then check your systeminfo again (it should show the nvidia gpu being used instead of saying that no graphics device is being used). And hopefully that will fix it. If that doesn’t fix it, you may want to try following the steps in this thread below:
