Synchronize Render Colors not working

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Hello Rhino community,
I recently dug up an old project of mine and decided to do some renders. However, I realized that when I do the traditional “change layer display color and then SynchronizeRenderColors” for changing materials in the render engine (D5 fyi), the result is that most layers does not get applied the color and in D5 I only see two different colors (as you can see in the image only one layer got a new material color when the rest of the model layers clearly has different colors)

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I noticed that when I SynchronizeRenderColor, the bar only indicates objects being synchronized instead of all the layers I’ve created which hasn’t happened in other projects.
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Thanks in advance for any help!

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Hi Ethan -

When I run SynchronizeRenderColor here, I always get a “x layers synchronized” message on the command line, never a “x objects synchronized” as in your image.
Please run the Rhino SystemInfo command and copy-paste the result here.
-wim

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Dear Wim,
Thank you for the response and great catch, I’ve not noticed the object sync. situation for any of my other projects.

Here’s the requested info:

Rhino 7 SR34 2023-9-24 (Rhino 7, 7.34.23267.11001, Git hash:master @ a37d83041828484840f2448d5b3e3770e46694f9)
License type: Educational, build 2023-09-24
License details: Cloud Zoo

Windows 11 (10.0.22631 SR0.0) or greater (Physical RAM: 32Gb)

Computer platform: LAPTOP - Unplugged [84% battery remaining] ~38 minutes left

Hybrid graphics configuration.
Primary display: Intel(R) UHD Graphics (Intel) Memory: 1GB, Driver date: 6-15-2023 (M-D-Y).
> Integrated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- Windows Main Display is laptop’s integrated screen or built-in port
Primary OpenGL: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU (NVidia) Memory: 8GB, Driver date: 6-25-2024 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 556.12
> Integrated accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- Video pass-through to primary display device

OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: Off
Use accelerated hardware modes: On
Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On
Graphics level being used: OpenGL 4.6 (primary GPU’s maximum)

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: 6-25-2024
Driver Version: 32.0.15.5612
Maximum Texture size: 32768 x 32768
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 32768 x 32768
Total Video Memory: 8188 MB

Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino
C:\Users\ethan\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\7.0\Plug-ins\D5Conv (e0d5e210-02f6-4ee9-a2b0-1675e225d958)\0.12.0.0028\Rhino 7\D5Conv.rhp “D5 Sync for Rhino”
C:\Program Files\Chaos Group\V-Ray\V-Ray for Rhinoceros\V7\VRayForRhino.rhp “V-Ray for Rhino”

Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 7.34.23267.11001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RhinoLabsTools.rhp “Rhino Labs Tools”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RhinoRenderCycles.rhp “Rhino Render” 7.34.23267.11001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\rdk_etoui.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 7.34.23267.11001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\rdk_ui.rhp “Renderer Development Kit UI”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 7.34.23267.11001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 7.34.23267.11001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\3dxrhino.rhp “3Dconnexion 3D Mouse”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Displacement.rhp “Displacement”

Thanks again for the response!

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Also a small update on the situation, when I clicked on “all layers” in “SynchronizeRenderColors”, it did apply the layer color to the material but the new property still doesn’t register in the render engine.

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I’ve created new files and visited other projects and tried SynchronizeRenderColors and they work fine (layers synchronized and not object as seen in the image), and they work fine in the render engine.

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It most likely is something I’ve fiddled with for this particular project or something wrong with the integrity of the objects.