3DS Max Viewport texture display error.

Dirty Frank

Hi guys. Having a bit of a problem with the way in which my textures are displaying in Max 2010's viewport.

They display fine when I "Show Materials in Viewport as Standard Display with Maps", however when I use Hardware display (to view bump maps etc in viewport) the diffuse textures appear all washed out;




Everything looks fine in renders but I cant figure out why this might be happening, any ideas?

Dirty Frank

bump.

Anyone?

Obscura

Are you using self illumination? It looks like this to me.

Dirty Frank

Nope. SI is turned off.
This is happening to every material in the editor as well. Even default ones I havnt messed with.

Dirty Frank

Another thing I've noticed is that if i create a brand new scene and make a bunch of objects and apply materials, everything displays fine.
If I then import an object from my previous problematic scene (the wheel for instance) then I still get this white washout and it applies to those previously unaffected objects I just created.

Obscura

Interesting.Maybe an ambient color setting from rendering/environment?Or global lighting from there?I mean is the global lighting on 1?

Obscura

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Dirty Frank

I love you dude.

Fricken' Ambiant Color was set to gray! Ive been messing with Gamma and viewport settings for days, how did i miss that!?

Thanks man

Obscura

You are welcome