[bograt]

Hello all,

Anyone else have extremely low res, smudgy textures in the 3dsmax 2013 viewport? I have set the texture size to 4096x4096 in the maxwell preferences but it looks no different to 256x256.
I am running this on 'Nitrous (Direct3d 9.0)' and its a quadro 2000m (laptop) By the way I get the same effect in all other driver modes
cheers

Jules

[bograt]

And this does not happen in Vray or default

[numerobis]

Have you found a solution for this problem?

I'm experiencing the same with max 2012 (Geforce GTX 560 TI)

[Fernando Tella]

This is a bit crappy solution but somehow it works (2013 and above, I think):

http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scrip ... size-limit

[numerobis]

thanks, but it doesn't seem to work with 2012...

[raduc]

Hi, how are you previewing the textures by using the material preview button or by using the checkbox from the bitmap ?

[numerobis]

sorry, i don't understand... you mean the material preview of the material editor?

[raduc]

There's two ways to preview an image on an object in the 3dsmax plugin, either by turning on the material preview button (link) or by clicking the show in viewport checkbox after selecting a bitmap from one of the material slots.

For the material preview, we make a texture whose size is the minimum between the max size for a texture that the graphics card allows and the size set in the maxwell preferences dialog. For the show in viewport method max handles everything.

Can you try to set the driver on DirectX and max out all the texture related settings (background texture size - 1024, download texture size 512 and the match bitmap size as closely as possible checked on both ) and see if anything improves?

If it doesn't improve anything, can you send me the image along with a sample scene at radu@griffinlair.com ?