displaying a bmp in viewport

dansher

hey all,

im trying to make a base head mesh in 3ds max and im setting up 2 planes to put ref pics on but i cant remember how to make the picture visible in the viewport, at the moment the img only shows up when i do a render

i know its probably something really simple lol but its been ages since iv done one


cheers

SpeCter

Select your material in the material editor and click on Show Material in Viewport:

dansher

new it was something simple lol, i probably would have worked that out if it wasnt for the material editor layout autodesk 2011

SpeCter

Is the Node based editor in 2011 too? I like Node based editors but in this case it doesn´t really fit.It´s too slow.
I switched back to old style in 2012 for that reason.

dansher

yeah i preffer the old style much simpler imo