Nitrous viewport failing?

jordan.kocon

Im wondering if anyone knows when the nitrous viewport in 3ds Max will be working properly? I am new to max, but running into issue after issue with the viewport. For Example: While in nitrous viewport, if I select a cv curve, and enable 'render in viewport' to turn my cv curve into a pipe, tube, etc. it still just displays as a curve. However in the DX9 viewport, it renders properly with thickness in the viewport. And vice versa, I often switch between shaded faces, and non shaded faces. I have it hotkey'd so that I can turn the shading of selected faces on and off. In Nitrous viewport face shading is toggled on and off correctly, however in the DX9 viewport, faces ALWAYS are unshaded (just outlined). I'm curious, am I missing drivers or something? Or are these just issues because Nitrous is new? At the expense of being an ass, it seems to be someone said "Hey, instead of one viewport that works 100%, lets have 2 viewports that each work 50%".

poopipe

probably drivers or underspecced hardware (or ATI)


I never had serious problems with nitrous on adequate hardware after 2012 sp1 although I'll grant haven't used it for a while. DX is much the same as it's always been for me.

on our ATI cards at work we run a driver from sometime around July last year because we haven't found any that work properly for everything we need since.

meshiah

if your using 2013 there are a couple updates, i did see some nitrous issues mentioned in the docs. may help
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/index?id=2334435&linkID=9241178&siteID=123112

jordan.kocon

Thanks for the info dudes. I found out the reason the DX9 viewport was buggy was because I had hardware shading enabled... A co-worker pointed this out, and everything seems to be working great