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Kenc3 · Post by **Kenc3** » 14 Jul 2009, 19:54

I am going through the Viperfish Project and have moved the image of the viperfish from the lower panel to the materials panel.
My problem is that the panel does not update when the material editor updates. It just stays the same and I cannot find a way to change it.
What am I doing wrong?

Jack Edwards · Post by **Jack Edwards** » 14 Jul 2009, 20:00

There's a change in the way materials are handled. You have to apply the new material to the object after you make the changes. You can do that with the funnel icon on the Material editor. Make sure you have the object you want to apply the material to selected.

Also you'll want to reset the material after applying it so that the new primitives you create don't have the fish template on them as well. To reset the material simply right click on the material preview ball in the Material Editor.

Let me know if you're still stuck.

Kenc3 · Post by **Kenc3** » 14 Jul 2009, 20:07

Now I really messed up.
I had closed Truespace and now reopened it. I cannot find the Material Editor. When I open the panel, I can only get the viperfish there. (It is 4AM here.)

Jack Edwards · Post by **Jack Edwards** » 14 Jul 2009, 20:12

Clicking on the material editor icon or the material inspect icon will bring up the material editor.

If you post a screen shot it might help us get an idea of what you're doing wrong.

Kenc3 · Post by **Kenc3** » 14 Jul 2009, 20:15

Disregard the last post. I found it after a sip of coffee. I now have the fish on the panel facing down. I will just flip the panel and it should be okay.
Thank you.

Jack Edwards · Post by **Jack Edwards** » 14 Jul 2009, 20:34

Great to hear.

Kenc3 · Post by **Kenc3** » 15 Jul 2009, 08:55

I am curious as to how I submit a screenshot of my work in case I run into another challenge. My fish is beginning to look like something now and I am finding more things on my own.
How do I make a screen shot to send?

nigec · Post by **nigec** » 15 Jul 2009, 10:54

on your keyboard you should have a print screen key, usually near the scroll lock key, then past into your art software
or you can render to file in TS7.61

First Light · Post by **First Light** » 15 Jul 2009, 11:54

Greetings,

There are two ways to use the screen capture facility built into Windows:

PrtScrn -- press the PrtScrn (Print Screen) button on your keyboard to capture an image of the entire desktop.
Alt + PrtScrn -- press the Alt and PrtScrn buttons together to capture an image of only the window with the focus.

In both cases, the captured image is copied into the Windows clipboard. From there you will need to paste it into another program. If nothing else, use the Paint program that comes with Windows. Once you've pasted the captured image into it, you can then save it as a bmp, jpg or tiff file.

Best regards, First Light

Kenc3 · Post by **Kenc3** » 15 Jul 2009, 13:12

Thank you.
I am about ready to quit for the night.
I am having problems with my 7.61 Beta. It keeps shutting down on me when I am not ready for it. Haaven't figured out what is going on yet. I also noticed some other strange things going on. Internet Explorer opened 31 copies this afternoon when I turned it on and awhile ago I had 5 calendars on the side of the screen. I am using VISTA 32 Premium Edition.

Shutting down for the night unless I get up later.

Karthogen · Post by **Karthogen** » 15 Jul 2009, 14:49

Two things, Virsu scan for the 32 version of internet explorer opening, or a Adware remover.

For the shutting down in the middle of working, I found out for my system I was having some problems with shutdowns with more complicated models, and some serious slowdown issues. I figured it may be an issue with overheating the processor. I opened the case and was shocked by all the dust build up around the cooling fan and Heat sink, Sprayed it out with some Compressed air and have not had an issue since.

Kenc3 · Post by **Kenc3** » 17 Jul 2009, 07:15

Viperfish problem for the day.
Right after I cut the fish in half and select the end loops, I am supposed to scale the Y value to 0.00. I cannot do this no matter what I try. If I type that value into the section and press enter, I get a jumbled mess. What am I doing wrong this time??

nigec · Post by **nigec** » 17 Jul 2009, 07:48

Try TAB or just click on the text field next to it, you do have to be quick or it goes back to its original value

Kenc3 · Post by **Kenc3** » 17 Jul 2009, 09:54

I decided to try to do it without making the Y go to 0.00. I looked them close and then chose mirror.
I then checked the center around the fish for any gaps in the figure. There were two.
I then went to picking verticies and adjusted the ones that had two dots until they were one dot. This seemed to make the image right.
I checked the Y setting and it was 1.000. Maybe there is something about 7.61 Beta that does this.
I haven't had a problem with it yet.

Kenc3 · Post by **Kenc3** » 18 Jul 2009, 04:00

I noticed when adjusting the vertices around the mouth (Ch 4)it says to go to rectangle select. I have to stay in pick and paint to be able to select them. Is this a change?

Jack Edwards · Post by **Jack Edwards** » 21 Jul 2009, 07:34

rectangle select uses a drag select method where, you drag the rectangle around the vertices you want to select. What is selected within the rectangle depends on the element type you have active, so make sure that you have vertices as the active element for selection.

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