Black terrain

#1 Whats your video card?

And could you look at your console log for errors or warnings?

#2 My video card is a 7950GT and here are the errors I could find in the log:

--------- Initializing Lighting Systems ---------
Could not map material: DefaultPrePassMaterial to a texture name, need to specify 'mapTo' or 'baseTex[0]' parameter
Using

art/gui/remapDlg.gui (0): Cannot re-declare object [RemapDlg].
Could not map material: TerrainSoft to a texture name, need to specify 'mapTo' or 'baseTex[0]' parameter
Could not map material: TerrainHard to a texture name, need to specify 'mapTo' or 'baseTex[0]' parameter
Namespace::unlinkClass - cannot unlink namespace parent linkage for TerrainMaterial for SimObject.
Error: cannot change namespace parent linkage of TerrainMaterial from SimObject to CustomMaterial.

I saw this in the middle of the shader loading:
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PLEASE RESAVE THE TERRAIN FILE FOR THIS MISSION! THANKS!
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#3 Try deleting your prefs. This happened to me a few times after a fresh install on different machines.

#4 Yea... nothing in there that could be causing the black terrain issue. Just to be sure email me your console log so i can check it in detail.

#5 I ran the DeletePrefs.bat and it loaded the texture when I opened the game, but it was really choppy. Then, when I entered the world editor, the terrain turned black again. For some reason, this is telling me shader issue, but I can't place my finger on it.

Tom, that log is on it's way. Thanks again.

#6 I was seeing this in beta 1 in the PhysX demo. Turning off post effects (SSAO, DoF, etc.) fixed the problem.

#7 You have something weird going on.

In that log you sent me i see stuff like this...

Allocating a 512 px clipmap for a 16384px source texture.
   - 5 base clipstack entries, + 1 cap.
   - Using approximately 7.980000MB of texture memory.

The clipmap code has been absent from Torque 3D since way before beta 1. So i'm not sure what your running there, but i suspect you have some weird mixed version of Torque 3D and old TGEA code.

I would start with testing a clean install of Beta 2.

#8 We are evaluating Torque3D, so we may not actually have the latest version like I initially thought. I sent an e-mail to GG to see what version they gave us to eval. Thanks guys.

#9 Oh, and how do you turn off the post effects? The documentation we have is very lacking.

#10 CTRL and letter "O" brings up the options screen when in-game (not in editor mode), postfx are listed in the lower half, press OK and/or apply afterwards.