No materials in viewport?! 3dsMaxDesign2011 on Windows7 64bit

[Mssnr]

Hey.

I have the problem, that there is no material shown in the viewport.

When i render the scene with vray, the mat is correctly placed but in the viewport everything is grey.

i used max 2010 befor and it was differnt there.

where can i set the tick to change that?

 

thx

 

jan

[Mssnr]

Hi.

 

I realy tried to help myself by googling days and days but i can´t find a solution

to my problem.

I can only see colours but no preview of the materials in my viewport.

Most things are grey. I tried everthing.

Maybe there´s no other way as to reinstall max.

Can´t anyone give me a little help?

[bev.lynn]

Jan,

Maybe I'm over simplifying this but did you turn on the "Show material in Viewport" button in the Material Editor?

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[Mssnr]

Hey, thank you for your attention.

Yes, that was the first i did.

Nothing happens when i turn it on.

Here is a screenpic...

[bev.lynn]

I found this in another thread...It might work...

http://forums.cgarchitect.com/32574-vray-material-not-visible-viewport-demo.html

 

Anyway, I found out the solution why the vray materials where black:

The global lightning was set to zero!

 

I opened up Meny-->Rendering-->Environment

Under the Global lightning, set Tint: white and Level: 1.0

Edited December 6, 2010 by bev.lynn