topic Re: Box mode in Alias and hybrid design in Alias Forum

Box mode in Alias and hybrid design

arkadiy.kalina — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 07:26:12 GMT

Hello.

When i switch to box mode in Alias, all surfaces are displayed in box mode also. In Speedform they don't. If i insert surfaces as reference, they are still smooth, but shaders are swiched off,

How to work with shaded references in box mode? See below.

Re: Box mode in Alias and hybrid design

shinji-pons — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 11:18:02 GMT

In Alias, I believe that references are only a mesh representation of the data whereas displaying the control cage would require importing the actual subdivision object.

In your second image, box mode might look strange but this is an accurate representation of the quads of both objects.

Re: Box mode in Alias and hybrid design

Michael-GG — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 13:42:52 GMT

Hi,

The fact that box mode is also applied for Nurbs objects is known as ALS-9084. It will be solved very soon, by offering a switch to only affect subd's.
But you can already work around this by the following trick: diagnostic shaders either work globally, when nothing is selected (your issue), or on the selected objects, if some are selected when the diagnostic shader is activated. So you could select your subd objects before activating box mode, and you should be good.
Workaround for your Nurbs not being shaded: select them, and give them a diagnostic shader.
Why this happen in general: when activating the diagnostic shader, the hardware shade is deactivated. This is a limitation to the used architecture.
Hope this helps?
GG

Re: Box mode in Alias and hybrid design

arkadiy.kalina — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 13:50:26 GMT

Yes, it works.

Thank you. Waiting forward to program updates!