Direct X shader isn't displaying my textures in viewport

melviso

Hi,
I downloaded this shader called Cryengine 3 vertex blend shader. I changed my viewport driver to Legacy Direct 3d. Restarted 3dsmax. When I assign a texture to the shader and tick display tab, the texture doesn't display in the viewport.

I am using 3dsmax 2014.

Eric Chadwick

Screenshot of the shader in the Material Editor please? Link to the source for the shader?

melviso

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKL3JG_p5Vk&spfreload=10[/ame]

It was created by this guy.
Also has a polycount thread:

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1672714&postcount=20

are there better viewport shaders than this. i would have loved to use xiloul shader but it has problems with 3dsmax versions after 2012.

Eric Chadwick

Shader FX was added to Max 2015. I suggest you upgrade and use it to build your own shaders. It looks tough at the start, but if you start simple it's really pretty easy to build it up to an awesome shader.

Drew++

I'll look into this, but first off make sure your driver settings are set for DirectX 9.0. This shader doesn't work for DirectX 10 or Nitrous viewport.

If this is some issue with Max 2015, I'll have to download a trial or something to test it. :P

melviso

Thanks Drew.

I remember using the shader before and it worked correctly a couple of months ago. I downloaded the recent service park for 3dsmax 2014 to fix the problem I was having with viewport canvas.
The latest service pack might have something to do with the problem maybe it removed support for DirectX 9.0 or something. I may be wrong.

@ Eric
Yeah, I may have to get 3dsmax 2015 at some point but right now I have a lot of scripts and plugins I use with 2014. Not sure if some of them support the newer versions.