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Andy · 24th May 2020, 10:16 AM

Thanks for posting this. Investigating it led me to find two bugs in the File->settings dialog. The DXF-circle-point and texture-update-msecs were incorrectly be displayed as checkboxes rather than number fields. This means that the values for these were probably being set to 0 or 1 when the settings were saved.

The texture update time is what I was going to point you to, which defaults to 4000 (4 seconds). If it was checking every millisecond, it may have caused the problem. The problem _could_ be something else - perhaps a texture memory problem.

A fixed release is due shortly but if you want to add this fix, edit (using a text editor) tcl/ac3dprefs.tcl, search for the line that starts:

ac_create_pair_label_bool $wf prefs_texture_update_tick

and replace

"ac_create_pair_label_bool" with "ac_create_pair_label_entry_int".

Then start AC3D and menu File->Settings->File should allow you to change the update time. I suspect you'll see a '1'. Enter 4000 (which is milliseconds). Then AC3D will look at the modification date on a texture file every 4 seconds and reload the texture if it detects a change.

24th May 2020, 10:16 AM	#2
Andy Administrator Professional user Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 4,565	Re: Textures not auto loading consistently Thanks for posting this. Investigating it led me to find two bugs in the File->settings dialog. The DXF-circle-point and texture-update-msecs were incorrectly be displayed as checkboxes rather than number fields. This means that the values for these were probably being set to 0 or 1 when the settings were saved. The texture update time is what I was going to point you to, which defaults to 4000 (4 seconds). If it was checking every millisecond, it may have caused the problem. The problem _could_ be something else - perhaps a texture memory problem. A fixed release is due shortly but if you want to add this fix, edit (using a text editor) tcl/ac3dprefs.tcl, search for the line that starts: ac_create_pair_label_bool $wf prefs_texture_update_tick and replace "ac_create_pair_label_bool" with "ac_create_pair_label_entry_int". Then start AC3D and menu File->Settings->File should allow you to change the update time. I suspect you'll see a '1'. Enter 4000 (which is milliseconds). Then AC3D will look at the modification date on a texture file every 4 seconds and reload the texture if it detects a change.