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MicroStation Connect Edition Update 3: again a lot of bugs in terms of visualization

Marc Winkler
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Hi,

we tested the new update 3 for 2 hours and again we found a lot of bugs.


1. Color-Alpha-Layer is not displayed in a multilayer photoshop-file, though it was there in the preview window. For example, Photoshop shows all of our layers (e.g. Color, surface id, alpha, ambient occlusion etc.), but not the color-alpha-layer. See the screen, which i have attached. In the rendersetup i have activated the coloralpha-layer.

2. During i want to activate the buttons in render output (rendersetup), we can not activate our wished buttons (see video, which i have attached).

3. Connect web browser problem is still there. Defect 340813 (see attached image3.jpg)

4. After we have opened our dgn-file, all external(!) materials are not displayed in the shaded view. After i open the material editor with our materials, then i refresh the view and all materials are displayed now. That´s very unfortunately,  that we have to open the material editor to see our materials in the shaded view.

5. Loading the material editor needs much more time than MicroStation V8i. And if i click on a material especially the "modo thing" preview (luxology) needs a long time for refreshing, too.

6. We tested the key-in "define materials", but there are no materials read. We think, it doesn´t works.


Regards, Marc


Here a video (2.) and two images (1.+3.):

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    Hi Marc,

    At this moment I've got a big Visualization project. I think I wait till the project is finished before I update to the next version.

    Did you also test the projection tools in this update?
    In Connect update 2, the scale projection is many times to sensitive. In the properties of an object, you can fill in the properties of a projection (!, in the properties tab). Unfortunately this had no effect (today).
    It happens that textures looks good in shaded view, but that the render looks totally different (rotated, moved).

    I downloaded a skp file from 3d warehouse. This looked fine in SelectSeries 4. In Connect Edition Update 2 however, all textures where lost. In the material editor I saw that all textures (MsTn was looking for), had a 2 behind the file name. I had to re-link alle textures again.

    I also missed the Color / Alpha Layer in Photoshop. 


    This are some problems I noticed accidentally today. This big visualization project was to heavy to render in SelectSeries 4. In Connect it renders, but unfortunately I had to re-materialize a lot of elements.

    Regards Louis

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    1) i am able to reproduce issue and Defect #617557 is filed to track this issue.
    2) Not able to reproduce issue . Enable diable is working fine at my end
    3) intimated concern analyst (will revert back to you on same ASAP)
    4) Not able to reproduce issue , i have my mat file on same location as dgn , materials get loaded as soon as file open and displayed in Smooth mode as well in view.
    5) If material preview is generated and stored already then Material editor open fast , if preview for material is not present then render and generate preview is taking time for 1st time when we launch Material editor
    6) Yes, define materials key in is not required anymore as dialog auto refreshes continuesly to display all loaded materials

    Thanks & Rg
    Harshad



  • 0 Offline in reply to harshad
    Hi, we can not post something in the bentley forum. I try it here.
  • 0 Offline in reply to Marc Winkler
    Ok, it works.

    Harshad, next week, we will answer you to your message, because we couldn´t post our answer today, because of a software problem.

    Regards

    Marc
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    Hallo Harshad,

    thanks very much for your answer.

    3) Would be very nice if someone could help us with the webbrowser import problem. It´s so important for us, that this thing is running!

    4) Ok we have our mat-Files not in the same folder. We have for one project 400 different materials in one file. We have external palettes and internal palettes mixed. But we have the same in V 8 i. The loading of the materials is significant slower.

    5) We will check your hint and render the preview of the materials. We give you Feedback.

    Harshad, please help us to get this Connect Version running. V8 i is working so fine in Visualization, but there is the limitation of complex geometry, we nearly reach during mostly every project. So we need to work with connect. There is no limit for the export to luxology. Is there the possibility, that someone can help us per Remote Desktop or Team-Viewer? We asked around here in Germany, but they also didn´t get much into Visualization-Things with Connect yet, or mentioned a lot of problems, too.

    Thanks for your help. Would be nice to hear from you in the near future.

    Kind regards

    Marc
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