Transparent Soffits??

[Allen Brown]

I have drawn a plan that has a tile roof and stone walls, when I take a low res 3d view, it looks fine. When I take a render 3d view, the gutter boards are translucent from above, but the roof tiles show at the overhang. When I look from below the level of the sofits, everything is translucent (soffits, gutter board, roof tiles at overhang). Also, I cannot create a Pov Ray picture of the exterior of this house. Even when I set all 3 settings at the lowest res/fastest settings, I had it proccessing all night and it still was at 4% complete this morning.

Any Ideas?

Thanks,

Allen Brown

[Allen Brown]

Lets se if I can use what Dermott just taught me, to show the problem I'm talking about. The picture is abit small, so you may not be able to see it, but if I put soffit lights in the soffits, they apear to hang in mid air.

[Allen Brown]

trying again:

[Tim O'Donnell]

the obvious question is what is the transparency setting of the soffit/fascia material?...the roof tiles from below are ignored as a roof's surface is assumed to be the top plane...so that is not a problem...if the soffits and fascia are not transparent

[Allen Brown]

Called tech services, emailed them the plan, John Jones noticed that the gutter/soffit/gutter board were all selected as bone in the mtrls DBX, but the bone showing was "whiter than white", so we re-selected bone in each of those areas, and they were no longer transparent.

As far as the second problem that I was having(not being able to create a ray trace, even at the fastest settings), I noticed that in the render view, the window sashes were all transparent also. So I went in and changed them individualy from the "bad bone" also, and I can now create a ray trace. I'm feeling pretty proud of my quazi-computer-skills at this point, because tech services could not figure out today why I could not ray trace. I will have to let them know tomorrow.

Allen

[alobartn]

You should feel proud. It's not everyday that a Hoosier outsmarts an Idahoan.