RPC problems

[Kroke]

Please help...I've put a bunch of RPC trees in my scene but when I render it, depending upon the view/angle I'm viewing the RPC's, they sometimes render perfectly but other times they show as a really thin 'line' or something. They're tweeked out.

 

What's the deal with these? What am I doing wrong?

 

TIA

[STRAT]

what angle are you viewing them? if you elevate the viewing angle until you're kinda looking down on them then they'll start to dissappear. how about post up a screenie to illustrate the problem?

[Kroke]

Here is a screeny

 

You can see them, they look razor thin almost within the parking lot areas where there is grass.

 

I'm not at an extreme angle. I have even tried rotating the RPCs, they work fine from other views, I don't know what to do about this.

 

I would assume that rotating an rpc tree does nothing anyhow?

 

I'm just desperate at this point.

 

Thanks for all your help guys...

 

Kroke

[mbr]

Make sure you are using raytraced shadows, for starters.

 

Are you sure those are RPC files and not mapped planes? They don't look like any RPCs I've seen, but I don't really know.

[Kroke]

Crap, maybe that's the problem then. These were some RPCs some guy made when I was an autocad/Accurender user. He gave out the whole library he used for us.

 

I guess now I know why they were free heh. Ok, well, back to the drawing board, that would probably explain it.

 

Thanks for the insite!

[tedesco]

I know this is a kind of late reply, but there it goes anyway.

If you´re not rendering a animation, try enabling the billboard option in the RPC objects, I think that will solve your problem.