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Modify tools stopped working

by Jacob · in Constructor · 07/08/2007 (12:32 pm) · 4 replies

Maybe there is some setting I changed that would cause them to stop working but anyway, I haven't checked them all but hollow and the CSG subtract/intersection no longer function - even in a brand new scene.

The console seems to indicate that all is well when I try the CSG subtract a few times but the brushes are unchanged after the operation:
Building treeA:
Subtracting brush 1 from brush 0
Building treeA:
Subtracting brush 1 from brush 0
*** Ray Selection found an object
***       Class Name: CMap
Building treeA:
Subtracting brush 0 from brush 1
Building treeA:
Subtracting brush 0 from brush 1

The hollow tool does absolutelly nothing to a simple cube...

UPDATE: Constructor was re-installed and it works fine now but I would still like to know what could have caused this...
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Torque 3D Owner Jacob
#1
07/08/2007 (2:17 pm)
Well, it happened again - same issue; none of the modify tools work. This time I haven't changed any prefs since re-installing Constructor.

I was working away on my scene; I created an arch and used it to subtract from another simple brush and it worked. Then I created another arch and tried to do the same type of CSG subtraction from another simple brush and nothing. Aftet that the modify tools no longer work - even after restarting Constructor and/or trying the tools on a brand new scene with very simple cube brushes.

I can e-mail someone my console.log file if that might help explain what happened.

Again, the console is showing that it's subtracting brush # from brush # as if it was actually working but it's not...

Jared Reno
#2
07/08/2007 (5:04 pm)
Try moving what you were subtracting. See if it didnt just re make it. I had this one happen to me some time ago. I subtracted and nothing. Went to go click the brush I subtracted with and instead clicked the object I was subtracting from and low and behold a new brush was there. Weird.

Torque 3D Owner Jacob
#3
07/09/2007 (5:58 am)
Thanks Jared but I have done all you suggested and even more. I have even restarted Constructor and used a brand new scene creating a cube and using the hollow tool on it and absolutelly nothing happens. Same with the CSG operations - I can move the brushes all around after subtracting and they are exactly as they were before - nothing is done.

I will keep trying to figure it out but any further help from anyone would be appreciated.

To be perfectly clear; the only 3 modify tools that do not work are the two CSG operations and the hollow tool. The slice tools are all ok.

Torque 3D Owner Jacob
#4
07/09/2007 (7:21 am)
SOLUTION: I realized that I did in fact change some of the default Constructor settings. The settings I changed were the Split Epsilon and Tiny Split Epsilon because by changing them, some lighting oddities were corrected in the exported dif when placed in TGEA. So, after changing the Epsilon values back to their defaults, the non-functioning tools in question are again operational.

Maybe this will help someone in the future :)