Rendering Gone Ugly

[Frankie]

Well as the title says, rendering of my latest BAT went a little..well it wasn't pretty:





it rendered just fine before (as a draft, but i mearly darkened the textures for the above)




I tried refitting the LODs, i merged with a new scene, I even tried creating a different desc file and making it a prop, nothing, nada, it has happened for both times i rendered it. What is the problem? Please help!

-Frankie

[Tarkus]

Frankie, I've had that happen a million times to me as well.  It actually prevented me from releasing a few sign BATs I did awhile ago.  It's some sort of texturing glitch as far as I know, and at least for me, it only happens at certain zooms.  I've caught it in the Lot Editor as well, so I think it occurs somewhere between exporting the BAT and using the Plug-in Manager.  Somehow, the texture of the model is ending up with an IID that is the same as one used by a Maxis building.  I'd be curious to know how to fix this problem as well. 

-Alex

[Colyn]

You need the latest Maxis PATCH for the BAT ... it is a IID clash that was fixed long ago.

[Tarkus]

Thanks, Colyn!  It turns out I had downloaded that file and spaced out and forgot to install it.   Seems to work a lot better now.

-Alex