Strange Behaviours between Union and Certain Materials

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#1

It seems that when materials such as Wood and Slate seem to have unusual behaviour when put in a union. No idea what the source of the problem is.

Examples of Issue:

Any help will be appreciated

#2

It looks like a flickering issue which is caused when parts overlap. Did you by any chance have a duplicate of the same part under it? Check to see if its just the one part of if there is a clone under it.

#3

No, the examples are show the effects of the behaviour. However I know (and checked) that none of them have a duplicate encased within each other.

#4

I’ve tried to duplicate the issue and can’t figure out why if its not the flickering issue. Union works fine for me on wood and slate. I would try one of these two things:

  1. Try closing studio and re-opening the game, see if that fixed the issue.

  2. Although I don’t think this will make a big difference, try re-making it without the F3X tools on a new game.

Beyond that I really have no clue what else to try. I hope that helped!

#5

Yeah, none of those seem to work. Thanks for the help tho.

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#6

Usually happens when you combined 2 different types of materials together, 1 of the material will take the property of the other which is why you should union different materials individually

#7

I don’t think its that, I tried replicating what you said and it always took the material of one of the two materials. Also from the videos it appears everything is the same material.

#8

You can’t union two different colours/materials, studio will just choose either of the options provided and use it for the entire union.

#9

Yeah, I’m putting a union between the same material, the outcome is as shown.

#10

If the outcome’s the same material then you can’t really change the new rendering, you might as well as not union it at all as unions take a bit extra to load and on rare occasions not load at all, just for the sake of optimization.

Now if you really wanna use unions maybe you’ll have to try unioning each thing separately and see how that goes? Studio’s been acting up lately so it wouldn’t be surprising.

As for the first video, the frame’s made of wood and the white object is some different material, that’s why the material for the entire frame also changes to that of the white object - If you only unioned the frame and that happened then you probably selected the white part by accident, otherwise there’s no logic explanation for it.

p.s replying to posts directly will get you an answer quicker, as it tags the user :slightly_smiling_face:

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