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I was playing around with Vue4, and in my 1st time playing with it, I followed that "quickie" tutorial, and made a quick scene that came out great.

So then I wanted to try one of my own. Only now, everytime I click on any of the Metals as a surfacing material, when I render it, it's a black ball? Did I inadvertantly click something somewhere while looking through the programs menu's?

I have Win XP Pro, Radeon 9200SE DDR video card, 512 DDR Ram, AMD Athlon 3.2Ghz CPU, w/hyperthread,
but I still get this warning everytime I open up Vue4 that says, it doesn't recognize the make of my video card, that I should turn off OpenGL, but I use Lightwave with open GL all the time, without any problems?

Does this happen to others using Vue? or is there something that I can do about these problems?

I tried different atmospheres, lights, suns,renderings, etc but the metals always look like shiny black balls? How can I get that good old metallic look back into Vue?

Is it possible for it to recognize my videocard too? it's not like it's some really old out dated weak one. It' not the best, but it's not the worst either.

Open to all suggestions, thanks alot...

xersius_x@yahoo.com

I suppose you are not speaking about Vue 4, but about Vue 4 Pro? Vue 4 PRO RECOGNICES PERFECTLY YOUR Radeon card. First of all do the following: Go to e-onsoftware's site and download/install the latest update. Then try again. :-)Guitta

You might try reinstalling as well since it sounds like the metal materials are corrupt. This shouldn't have anything at all to do with your video card since that doesn't do anything for Rendering, the video card only affects open GL support which is only active in the real time views. Hope this helps.