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Hello,

testing the new 2.5.1 plugin for just one day I am experiencing the following problem:

When clicking on the 'Materials' tab of the Maxwell Scene Manager, no material is showing up.
Everything is greyed out, I can not switch to MXM mode. Actually I can not do anything to make the materials appear in the drop down menu.
The other tabs of the Scene Manager are working properly.

By chance the drop down menu may appear eventually but it's not possible for me to invoke it.

Is it a problem of Sketchup or of speed or memory?
It seems to me that the problem does not occur with earlier versions of Maxwell plugin (2.5.0).

Can you give any recommendations?

Best regards,
Umdrehung

OS X 10.6.6, 4GB Ram Intel Core 2 Duo, Maxwell 2.5.1, Plugin 2.5.1, Sketchup 8

Nothing has been deliberately changed here, it is just that sometimes you may need to switch between documents before the materials will be added to the plugin's list (this is only on OSX).

Thank you. I will try this. Switching between to active Sketchup documents to make the materials appear.

Best regards
Umdrehung

I've made some changes, so that this should be working nicer in the next build.

Please check this (the initial loading of the material list) in 2.5.11, it should work much better.

However, please note that when two models are open, and you switch from one to the other, the materials from the current model still will not be shown in the material editor until you do something in the viewport of the current document. Until you do, the plugin will not know that you've switched models.