Sample Sphere's Missing

Heart_Murmur

Hey guy's I can't seem to figure out this problem, all of my sample sphere's in my material editor have just gone blank. I've tried shutting down max and reopening, even restarting the computer. I don't know what I did to make them disappear, at the time I was switching in between photoshop and max for some texturing.

Here is an image of what it looks like:



I've tried changing them to cylinders, boxes, doesn't work. I've changed the amount of them to display more on screen, nothing. I've reset the material editor slots under utlities, still nothing. It just seems odd to me that this would be a feature.

Anyway, any help would be appreciated.

- Nate

killingpeople

i'd try installing newest video drivers. if that didn't work, i'd reinstall max if there wasn't an answer for you out there.

Filbot

Sometimes my Max materials all turn white upon opening the program. I have to use "reset" in order to get the material window back to normal. If anyone knows why it does that I would love to know.

renderhjs

because the environent color is set to white (press the [8] key for setting it back to black)
this white color often used in AO renderings, maybe you used some script or so that did not set it back.

Heart_Murmur

Looks like reinstalling was the solution, thanks.