Design window graphic problem

[Balrog]

:?: After I registered the software on my XP machine some of the "Orth" views began to mess up - mainly the Plan(X,Y) view. At the bottom of the Plan (X,Y) view there is a compressed version of my desktop (completely illegible) and when I draw something (a sphere for instance) the grid takes over on the bottom 1/3rd of the Plan (X,Y) window and completely blocks out the sphere. The sphere will "pop" back in for a short time, but when I do anything (click the mouse, rotate the sphere, select a surface) the image will be partially taken over by the grid and 1/3rd of the image will not appear, though the green selection box stays and will not go away even when something is selected.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled the software, then rebooted the computer but the problem persists. Is there anything that I can do to correct this.

By the way, I don't know if monitor resolution has anything to do with it, but I am running at 1024x768 at true color.

Thanks

[Andy]

This sort of problem is usually caused by the graphics card drivers. Ensure you have the very latest for your card.

Which card do you have?

Andy

[Balrog]

:?: Thanks for the information.

The graphics card that I have is the default that was shipped with the Dell Computer. I got the computer about 8 months ago, but I will check and see what type of graphics card that I have.

It probably isn't the latest.

By the way, another minor problem that I am having is when I render an image with a bitmap texture to the POV software the code fails in the POV software at the following line:

texture { pigment {image_map { bmp "C:/Personal/Images/WoodH.bmp" }} }

I have to remove the "bmp" from the line to get it to render the image - and then it gripes about it. Do I need to type in some extra parameters in the AC3D program to make this render properly?

Thanks again for your help

[Andy]

For the pov problem - see the other thread in this forum - there is a plugin that fixes the pov exporter.

Check that POV supports the texture format that you use because it doesn't use all the file formats that AC3D supports.

Andy