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Improve viewport

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 10:30 am
by jc4d
Hi all,
Is there a way to improved the quality of the materials display in the viewport, here in this picture, for example to the left is the MXM material and to the right a basic C4D material with the same diffuse texture, at least to my eyes the native C4D mat displays better in order to remap with more accuracy.
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Maybe this doesn´t make any sense to anybody else but for my workflow sometimes I have to map with the standar C4D mat and then reaply the MXM.

Cheers
JC

Re: Improve viewport

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 11:25 am
by Fernando Tella
I don't know much about C4D but Studio has a setting for that in Preferences>Viewport (texture resolution) and you have a similar option in 3dsmax preferences in Maxwell tab so I guess C4D has it too. Check preferences if there's something like that in Cinema. :P

Re: Improve viewport

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 12:14 pm
by jc4d
Hi Fernando,
You hit the nail, there is an option in the preferences that do the job :D thanks, but sadly this only happens with new materials created in the document, is no kind of "refresh" of the textures that are already there.

Cheers
JC

Re: Improve viewport

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 3:56 pm
by JDHill
Preview size is stored per-texture, since you may want to use low-res on some, and high-res on others. When textures are first created, they use the value set in your preferences, but you can change it later for any individual texture, using the Preview Size parameter in the plugin's texture editor.