fire and smoke... and eggs!

geoff6

Hi all,

This concerns Smay's fabulous 'Fire & Smoke' prop collection. Until recently, this has worked perfectly but today, as I went to render an image including one of these props, instead of it rendering as a ball of flame, it renders as an orange egg. In other words, rather than the glorious flame effect I usually get, I get a featureless yellow or orange egg.

I've re-installed, checked it in Iray, 3delight and open GL, all the same. I haven't used it until now, since I also lost all the scripts I had put in the script menu. I doubt they are connected, but apart from updates to my nvidia GFX, nothing has changed in my set up that I could suggest as a cause.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

G

scorpio

They don't work in Iray sadly,

 I'm not having problems with them in 3DL, load a prop and apply a material and it renders as it should.

geoff6

Hi Scorpio,

Unfortunately, it's not working in any render format.

Thanks,

G

sriesch

I'm unfamiliar with the product so I don't know how it is mapped, but is it possible you just bumped some surface parameter in your scene (changed a shader, tiling, opacity, etc)?  Does it work normally if you try using it in a new scene using the original object/shader from your content library instead?

geoff6

Hi sriesch,

One of the first thigs I did was to start a new scene and just oad up the fir prop, unfortunately, it behaved the same. It's a mystery to me as it has worked perfectly before in Iray.

Thanks,

G