Shader invisable?

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# 1 09-02-2004 , 10:57 PM

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Hi!
Have a problem that has me in a panic.
A model I have been modeling now does not apear in the render, all other parts do but not this part, everything has the default shader on it.
I was playing with "connect Poly shape" mel, but i deleated it after wards (the duplicates it made.
have tried duplicating object, apply a shader to it, trying all the Edit Poly>Normals>....
If I convert>Subdiv, then it shows up but its changed then user added image

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# 2 10-02-2004 , 01:33 AM

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if we could see a pic of the problem it might help.
have you tryed deleting the history on the object ?

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# 3 12-02-2004 , 10:56 PM

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Ye i did deleat the history and posting a pic is useless because its invisable user added image

If I do a smooth it will also show up, but thats a pain to have to continue to work with it as smoothed.

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# 4 13-02-2004 , 03:21 AM

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"all the other parts do but notthis part" well I was speeking about a pic of all of it. but thats cool you probably have a point. it might not be very usefull.

you talk about parts though. is it one object with difrent parts? or more than one object ?

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# 5 16-02-2004 , 12:00 AM

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I'm doing a boat. Hull,deck,mast etc... the hull is the only part that is doing this.

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# 6 16-02-2004 , 12:18 AM

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Try going to the Attribute editor->Render Stats and checking the "primary visibility" box for the hull. CPS unchecks it when you use it on the object.

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# 7 16-02-2004 , 05:42 AM

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u know, I'm sure that was one of the first things i checked, however it was not checked now. Rendering is still weird, tried reapliing shader but still no the same.
Render stats are all checked. So I guess cps changed things around, what about the poly faces being screwed up, I tried putting them to normal?
Thanks!

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# 8 16-02-2004 , 10:13 PM

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Could you point out the specific problem are you experiencing now?

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# 9 18-02-2004 , 05:34 PM

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The shader is not showing up. As u see in the sample it is like a ghost.
So I figure maybe somthinf changed in the geometry of the polys ?
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# 10 18-02-2004 , 05:45 PM

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the only thing I can think of off the top of my head is those objects do not have a material applied, or the transparancy is all the way down or something.

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