23-Emerald III

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Why are all my appearances dark?

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July 19, 2016
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Why are all my colors extra dark? I believe this was the appearance.dmt from our internal cad support people when we moved to creo 3.

2D Drawing

Best answer by StephenW

So my specific problem had to do with an option;

pro_texture_library

Once I removed that option, my colors all came back to reasonable.

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STEVEG

21-Topaz I

Stephen,

I actually have the opposite. My Creo 2 was darker.

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StephenW

Author

23-Emerald III

I noticed if I clicked the rendered samples, it's much better.

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STEVEG

21-Topaz I

Not much of a difference for Creo 2.

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MartinHanak

24-Ruby III

Hi,

I had similar problem in CR3. I installed current version of graphics drivers and problem has gone...

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AmitDeshpande

18-Opal

Hi Stephen,

I checked on mine and my colleague's machine. The appearances appear brighter in Creo 3.0, than in Creo 2.0. I also checked remotely on another machine, and saw that the appearances were darker in both releases. I believe the graphics card may also be playing a role.

Thanks,

Amit

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GaryBunney

1-Visitor

Similar issue here since switching over to Creo3 M080 and mine are all black except one. If I select rendered samples the colors appear, but are very dark.

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StephenW

Author

23-Emerald III

Wow Gary, yours are EXTREME!!

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StephenW

Author

23-Emerald III

Tomorrow morning I will try removing all my config files and see if it's something I have purposefully set for a different reason. If I don't find something there, I will try Martin and Amit's suggestion of updating the graphics drivers.

My card is an Quaddro 2000, around 2-3 years old now. I'm sure I've updated the drivers but probably not since the creo 3 installation so that's definitely a good possibility.

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StephenW

AuthorAnswer

23-Emerald III

So my specific problem had to do with an option;

pro_texture_library

Once I removed that option, my colors all came back to reasonable.

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doneill

1-Visitor

I have the same problem with Creo 6, but I don't see a "pro_texture_library" option anywhere.

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StephenW

Author

23-Emerald III

Seems like that option was maybe replaced with texture_search_path

I'm not sure that's a true statement but you may want to look and see if you have that set and temporarily remove it and restart Creo to see if it improves.

The way I solved this initially was to remove all my config.pro files and start Creo. When the problem was gone, that told me it was definitely a config setting.

Then I cut away 1/2 the config and I figured out which 1/2 had the problem setting. Then I cut that partial config in 1/2 again and again until I could tell which setting it was. It probably took less than an hour to do this.