DX shader help

fullofclovers

I'm trying to view my normal map in the viewport. I enabled all the settings in the "Configure Driver" tab and set up my material correctly. It seems the only thing I'm missing is the "DX display of standard material" option in the material editor.

I can't for the life of me figure out what could be wrong. I did search around for quite a bit with no luck. I'm an experienced 3D artist but still am relatively new to studio max. I'm sure this is one of those things were I passed over something small.

I linked a screen shot of my settings and such.

http://fullofclovers.com/DX_Display_Issue.jpg

Eric Chadwick

Where it says "Enable Plugin Material: None" you need to change that to Metal Bump 9.

But that's a pretty crappy shader, the better way of doing this is to use a 3rd-party shader.
http://wiki.polycount.net/Normal_Map#ShadersAndSeams

fullofclovers

Thank you Eric. Do you recommend one over the other? So the "DX display of standard material" is not used in Max 2009? Or am I just missing the default plugin?

EDIT: I got it down. Thanks again dude.

Eric Chadwick

Cool, good luck with the piece.