max 2010 texture not updating?

cholden · Feb 2010

I had grown accustomed to saving a texture in photoshop, and it automatically updating in max. Now in 2010, it appears to be selectively updating some and not others. This leads me to have to reopen the texture each time to see it update. Is there anything I can do to make this automatic again?

edit: possible fix
customize > perference > configure driver > Redraw in Maximized Viewport checkbox

MRico · Feb 2010

Same issues here, I tried that and it didn't fix it on my end.

Andrew_Morris · Feb 2010

I've actually had this exact same problem since 3ds Max 2009. The only 'fix' I've found is to enable the 'display in viewport' on the bitmap instead of the material. It should do the regular viewport bump then. As far as I know the 'Redraw in Maximized viewport' doesn't seem to work.

It does suck however that you won't be able to get updates on multiple textures if you are using diffuse\specular\opacity

Although if you use a DirectX shader it should auto-update fine

[HP] · Feb 2010

if I remember correctly, MoP had a script that you could bind to a key that would refresh all the bitmaps of your scene. Maybe It's still around.

renderhjs · Feb 2010

http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/reloadallbitmaps
http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/reloadbitmaps

max 2010 texture not updating?

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