Black thumbnails in spark editor

SoulztormSoulztorm Join Date: 2011-02-24 Member: 83305Members
edited February 2011 in Mapping
Well, in the current build (165 or 137 sdk, as you wish) of the spark editor, all my material thumbnails are completely black.
In the perspective view the materials on the brushes are just displayed fine.

I already installed the newest nvcompress libraries(64 bit), the newest catalyst driver (11.2) etc.

My specs:

Windows 7 Home premium 64-bit.
4Gig ram
HD radeon 4890
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  • FehaFeha Join Date: 2006-11-16 Member: 58633Members
    edited February 2011
    You have been able to see them in the earlyer builds? Cause myself I have had some sort of placeholder image (so it seems to atleast be able to load images, but I guess it doesnt find the correct ones or something), blue refresh/loading symbol with a white background, since pre-alpha.
    Tried to get help with it in a thread once, but I never got it to work :P
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  • SoulztormSoulztorm Join Date: 2011-02-24 Member: 83305Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1834876:date=Feb 25 2011, 02:56 AM:name=Feha)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Feha @ Feb 25 2011, 02:56 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1834876"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->You have been able to see them in the earlyer builds? Cause myself I have had some sort of placeholder image (so it seems to atleast be able to load images, but I guess it doesnt find the correct ones or something), blue refresh/loading symbol with a white background, since pre-alpha.
    Tried to get help with it in a thread once, but I never got it to work :P<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Well, since I just bough NS2, I can't say anythinga bout earlier builds unfortunately :(
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  • persoperso Join Date: 2003-02-19 Member: 13740Members, WC 2013 - Supporter
    edited February 2011
    As a temporary fix I posted a working copy of the cached thumbnails and instructions on how to replace them:
    <a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=112797&view=findpost&p=1835079" target="_blank">http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/in...t&p=1835079</a>
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  • SoulztormSoulztorm Join Date: 2011-02-24 Member: 83305Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1835080:date=Feb 26 2011, 12:56 PM:name=perso)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (perso @ Feb 26 2011, 12:56 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1835080"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->As a temporary fix I posted a working copy of the cached thumbnails and instructions on how to replace them:
    <a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=112797&view=findpost&p=1835079" target="_blank">http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/in...t&p=1835079</a><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Wow, awesome thanks. That fixes it.
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  • SN.WolfSN.Wolf Join Date: 2010-03-29 Member: 71115Members
    Just want to add this to maybe help out the devs.

    Build 165 Editor (black thumbnails)

    Windows XP (32 bit) on and dual cor 3800+ 3GB ram, gt 220 1gb card: Only a few thumbs where black and some props had default textures (checker)

    Then i upgraded my machine to:

    Windows 7 pro (64 bit) on an AMD Phenom 2 black edition (6 core), 6 GB ram on a gt 220 1gb card: "All" thumbnails are black but props show correctly but hard to see as the backgrounds are black.


    So i installed my old stuff in another case a reinstalled build 165 on xp to find that only a few textures where black.....strange but for me it seems i get diferent results between xp (32 bit) and 7 (64 bit)
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  • MasterGMasterG gmfbst Join Date: 2003-08-24 Member: 20169Members, Squad Five Blue
    I have the same problem. All black thumbnails and black background in editor(not the background in ed matters). Impossible to do anything as is now.
    Dunno what components/drivers might be causing this so I'll post it all:

    Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
    AMD Phenom II x4 965
    AMD Radeon HD 6950
    Asus Crosshair IV Formula
    4 GB Ram
    + harddrive, ssd and stuff.

    Any fixes would be appreciated. The placeholder will probably do for now. Does it include everything from the latest builds?(haven't downloaded it yet)

    Btw it's all good with nice thumbnails on my laptop with a broken videocard and vista 32-bit.
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  • persoperso Join Date: 2003-02-19 Member: 13740Members, WC 2013 - Supporter
    <!--quoteo(post=1836220:date=Mar 6 2011, 02:18 PM:name=Kabelen)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Kabelen @ Mar 6 2011, 02:18 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1836220"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Does it include everything from the latest builds?(haven't downloaded it yet)<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Yep, there should be working thumbnail for every texture before this problem started to occur.
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  • [=Alex=][=Alex=] Join Date: 2008-12-25 Member: 65866Members, Squad Five Blue
    I have the same problem all black back and I can not do anything from build 165 could never run the game error and not start.
    It's something with the ati radeon video cards.
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  • wackoisgodwackoisgod Join Date: 2011-04-08 Member: 91478Members, Retired Developer
    This should be resolved whenever the next patch comes out you may have to delete your thumbnail cache
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  • Evil_bOb1Evil_bOb1 Join Date: 2002-07-13 Member: 938Members, Squad Five Blue
    I deleted the cache file only to find that the new thumbnails created all had the black background. I restored the original file so i'm good but theres still a problem with it.

    system: i7 720, ati radeon 5870

    If you need any precision (logs...whatever) I can provide if you tell me what you need.
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