First, I've used 3DGS on and off for a few years now, so I think I know my way around the program reasonably well. Just upgraded my computer after the previous one died and now every time I build something in WED I get a 100% black screen - nothing to see at all. I stripped it down to the barest of bare essentials - a hollow cube, an entity, and a single light source. Still no joy - solid black. I even downloaded the WED tutorial (WED_Tutorial_e.chm + TUT_WORK dir) and when I open those levels it's all black.

The car level seems to open OK although there's a pretty long pause before I see the car (and it's solid black for that duration - maybe the A7 logo is supposed to be displayed there?)

I am using default everything and my video card is nVidia 8500. It seems to work fine on everything else I've thrown at it but for some reason I can't get my levels to display.

I know this is kind of a vague symptom, but any ideas?

--Bob in Tucson

Well, I figured it out - with no lights defined, I get an "all black" image but if I add an area light and crank up the range to 1000 I can finally see what's happening. Anything much less than that and it's completely dark.

I'm pretty sure that in the A6 days there was a default light that was bright enough to look around in a simple room; maybe I'm crazy or maybe this has changed in A7. In any case it seems to work fine with an added, bright light. Duh.

--BC

Did you set the ambient light? I'm still with A6, but you should always define the ambient light under global properties when creating a new level.