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I have asked this before in a list of wishes a few years ago and i'm asking it again because this is really something I'm missing; I really would like to see an option for a bigger preview image in the material editor. Maybe even the possibility to view it in a separate window, and that scaleable.. (?)

I would love this as well. And maybe the ability to rotate the scene. I love the implantation of fire but on heavy scenes like any preview engine it slows down. The ability to have a scalable preview image as well as to be able to rotate the preview scene to check reflections and such would be very nice. Good request Tok_Tok.

Why not use Fire as material preview. It's the same core isnt'it?
Just open the preview scene

Yes you could. But I'm used to using the Material editor, it's easier to work with. Just open materials from Windows Explorer and edit them. It's also nice to be able to drag and drop textures into the material. Otherwise you would have to open studio and open different preview scenes -> re-import the material you are working with, each time you want a different preview.

For me it's easier with the material editor.

+1

i think especially because we now can use fire for the preview we should be able to make it bigger...
http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... =2&t=35749

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yes, I'd like this as well, particularly with FIRE now.

-Brodie

why can't we have a bigger/flexible preview in MXED? (like it is in 3dsmax) Is there any reason for this limitation?

sjesta looks like only reason

We should rename the topic
from Bigger preview image in Material editor
to Fire in Material editor.