max 8 viewport normal/opacity bug?

low odor

Been having a horrible time getting max to draw out normal maps w/opacity(and normal maps in genral) in the vieports in real-time...always turns to gobbly gook.. and I have to hit the redraw button ~ lots. anyway the solution seems to be setting the Transparency in the the viewport setting to none. Seems to fix everything..and the opacity maps are still drawn correctly.

Could be my card too though ati mobility x1300

anyway thought I would share..and save some poor soul the frustration

Eric Chadwick

D3D with DX Material Display?

Sounds like the card.

low odor

yep d3d with dx material...viewports are moving alot smother too.

Eric Chadwick

Have you tried a HLSL or FX shader instead? Should give you much better results than the vanilla Max shader. I think MoP had a decent one with opacity.