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hi guys... got a problem which is a bit disturbing considering the workflow

the title says it all. since i moved form 1.6 o 1.7.1 a got this problem.

when i have a material with a texture base (e.g. an arroway texture) there is no preview of that texture in the c4d editor - just a blank colour is shown...

so its hard to scale the texture for your use - because you always have to guess and do some testrenderings

is this the way it should be now or is there some way to switch it?
(textures preview in c4d is switched on!)

thanks for help

greets

so ... seems like I'm the only one with that problem?!

strange -_-

Hi shen, sorry I missed this thread - might be better to post about issues with the cinema plugin (I assume that's what this is) over in the cinema forum. Which version of the plugin are you using? Also, which version of cinema, and which OS?

JDHill wrote:might be better to post about issues with the cinema plugin (I assume that's what this is) over in the cinema forum

i know but i did it on another problem but didnt get a respons. most people dont look there very often...

btt.

i work on win xp32 with c4d r10.5 with the latest maxwell plugin. downloaded it just a few days ago

All right, I can also test here on R10.5, XP 32bit. Seems to be working fine, so let me know what happens when you do the following:

1. open Cinema
2. create a cube
3. Plugins > Maxwell > Material Editor
4. Material Editor menu > Create > From MXM
5. select 'boards-01.mxm', for example
6. drag the material from the Cinema Material Manager onto the cube

Here, I see the Reflectance 0 texture from the material's first BSDF shown on the cube. If you don't, then:

7. open the Material Editor (if it is closed)
8. select 'boards-01' in the Cinema Material Manager
9. click the 'Active Texture' dropdown button (it's under the material preview)
10. select one of the textures shown there
11. the selected texture should now be shown on the cube

Does this work for you? If not, where does it fail?

Thanks...

sorry, had a lot of work to do...

tested it this morning... but still no preview. here's what it looks like




no matter which of the textures i set active it always looks like this.

greets

So it seems you can get to step 6, and the texture is then not shown. What about the next steps? Note, step 7 is not referring to MXED, but the plugin's integrated Material Editor.