Help! The I see gray in my 3ds Max!

d_woo77 · Dec 2011

So, I'm using Max 2010 and every time I import a mesh it turns all my materials gray. And I mean EVERYTHING. Even the stuff that was created in that file get this gray film on it. Anyone know how to get rid of this?
It's particularly bad when I change the viewport settings to: "Show in Viewport as... Hardware Displays with Maps"

I'm working on the normal maps right now, so I have to turn that setting on in order to see them.

d_woo77 · Dec 2011

I read that one possible reason is that have to export the mesh with no materials attached to it at all. Otherwise it'll somehow project that (for lack of a better word) "phantom" texture on everything. I guess it acts as a sort of overlay on all the textures or something?

d_woo77 · Dec 2011

So, I did a bit of experimenting. I tried exporting out two FBXs (one with a gray texture and one without). Then I tried exporting out two OBJs (again, one with a texture, one without).
Then I tried importing them back into a New max file.

Here's my results: the FBX created that gray film regardless. As for the OBJs, they had no troubles whatsoever. I'm not sure what happened, but my layman's guess is that the FBX file got corrupted some where, some how. But this problem has sorta happen in Maya as well. So, I'm not sure what's going on.

d_woo77 · Dec 2011

So, for now, in order to move forward with my project, I simply exported everything out as an OBJ and re-imported it into a new file. That worked but I'd really like to know what happened and if there's a way to fix this problem without resorting to those measures.