Maya 8.5 CGFX problem in view port

Stinger88

Note: I'm not to good with the technical jargon so please bear with me. Hopefully I can get my query across clearly. Thanks in advance for any help

I am having a problem with CGFX shaders in maya 8.5. I am using CGFX shaders created in FX composer and loading them up using ColladaFX.

Problem is that when I do use ColladeFX and apply the CGFX to the model the mesh becomes transparent (invisible, when selected I can still see the mesh though). Also the hypershade nodes become transparent also. So I can view the model as I add the shaders.

I have tried different viewing settings and I get nothing. Switching to High Quality rendering is even worse and the entire view port window becomes blank, including HUD elements which I find bizarre.

The shaders work fine in our Engine once exported from Maya but I'm finding it difficult and slow going to work on a model that I can't view in Maya.

I thought this might be a problem with my OS and rig (vista, nvidia quattro, etc) but the same or similar occurs on other machines here (XP, ATI cards, etc)

Thanks again.

IxenonI

ATI Cards are probably the problem. Had similar issues with Maya 8.5 and Realtime CGFX Shader Display.....

Try it on a machine with an Nvidia GPU.

Stinger88

Nah, thats not the problem. I have a nvidia card Geforce Quadro 1700 with the most recent drivers. Although the problem is also occuring on ATI machines as well.

Where I get a transparent mesh, ATI users get a pure white mesh without textures. Same problem just different display.

Cheers anyway