odd xnormal problem

TWilson · Sep 2008

Hallo,

Anyone ever have your ray distance stop working completely. They continue to cast out and catch the arms on the sides of the torso. Or the legs on the inside of the opposite leg. Or the feet onto each other. If I turn off Closest Hit if Ray fails it just gives me a blank image. I've tried ray distances ranging from .0001 to 100. No number has any effect.

Now here's the really weird thing. The same meshes with the same settings work on my home computer just fine but not my work machine. eehh?

Anyone ever experienced this?

EarthQuake · Sep 2008

I had this problem before, but shit i cant remember exactly what i did to fix it. Try scaling the mesh, i think that there is some for of cutoff to the values. I think the issues is if you have a really small mesh, and want to enter a very small value(under 0.1 or 0.01) it cuts cut off? I'll try and think if there was anything else i did.

TWilson · Sep 2008

Okay I think I got it ...I played with the mesh scale for a while and the ray length ...

Here's what happened. I installed the new xnormal at work here. In the new xnormal "Use Cage" is checked by default. So ...unchecked that shit and it works. How frustrating.

jogshy · Sep 2008

TWilson wrote: »

In the new xnormal "Use Cage" is checked by default

Yep :poly124: I'll uncheck it by the default in the next release.

EarthQuake · Sep 2008

Oh yeah, use cage should definately NOT be checked by default, because its something you have to do extra work to even use. Which means its really bad to have it as default behaivor. Really all its doing is making sure its broke whenever a new user trys to use it!