As a rule of thumb I ALWAYS do material adding and/or editing at the
Part level. That said, I thought that I would be adventurous and try
configuration with Photoworks. Needless to say it blows up big time
once thrown into an Assembly in that when you render none of the
materials are there. I even went back into the Part level and switched
from "All" configurations to "Specify" configurations and it gave the
same end result.
So I had an "AH Ha"moment and thought, that I had missed something
thinking that maybe the work flow might be different for
configurations so I went to the Assembly and added different materials
to each of the features while I was editing each Part "So this should
solve my problem, right?" Click render and a big fat "NO" from the
program. ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!
This is huge!!! if this is a bug. I mean having to create 3 separate
files just to add materials from Photoworks makes me feel like Charlie
Brown running to kick the football while Lucy is holding it. Maybe one
of you guys know a work around, but for now it seems not to work the
way it should.
- posted
15 years ago