max 8 materials...all white?

keizza

hello. i have no idea what happened. but all of the sudden...all my basic materials in max8 are white. tried reverting to startup layout. nothing happens. s'gotta be something dumb. just never needed to fix it.

MoP

I bet your ambient light in the scene / environment settings is set to 1.0 or something.
Hotkey is '8'. Press that, look for the ambient light value.

keizza

thanks mop. that was it....must've hit it by accident.

MoP

I dunno, I've seen this happen to a few people, it's even happened to me and I swear I wasn't fiddling with the scene's global ambient light value. I suspect it's a bug that only crops up in rare circumstances, or a value that's getting set unexpectedly due to something else.

renderhjs

yup had the same some years ago but I was not aware of doing anything odd back then.

dejawolf

yeah i've had the same issue. in some instances the ambient light is even flickering on and off as i move the model around.

keizza

yeah. it was weird. i generally just use max for modeling w/zrbrush....and generally never touch ambient lighting. but one day....it just creeped up on me like dracula and turned all my mats white. was bothering me for a while. oh well.....that's max i guess. MoP always got an answer tho....so thanks again dude.