Alright so not exactly a solution as im still not really sure what the problem is, but I’ve made it appear. your comment made me realize i changed the value of the OpenAngle back to 90, which was giving me problems before ,as i touched upon in the original post. i was able to fix those issues by specifically changing the value to 0.0 as suggested in another post, and well, changing it back to 0.0 fixed this problem as well… like i said im niot exactly sure what the problem is, but i did try to run the debugger with breakpoints under and around the lines in question and received a message along the lines of “This endpoint will never be reached” so im assuming that setting the OpenAngle to certain value, for some reason, stops that section of the code from being loaded.