Textures in Maya are showing up Black

tkkstar · May 2013

I am really in need of some help fixing this problem. I have textures on my models in Maya but they are showing up completely black. I have done everything from pressing 6 to checking if the color channels are on. They textures show up in the hypershade and render but not in the viewport. I have also went into files that I know were working before to see if it was something I was doing on my end.

Is there anyway to fix this? I am using Maya 2011 64 bit with a Nvidia Geforce GT 640. I even tried updating the drivers but after doing that it wasn't allowing me to open Maya.

Bartalon · May 2013

Does this happen in all rendering modes? (default, high quality, viewport 2.0)

Dataday · May 2013

I have seen this happen before, there are a couple of fixes but the one I remember doing was exporting the meshes as objs or fbx to a new scene and then reimporting or working with that new scene instead.

MikeF · May 2013

yeah this is usually a result of hq or viewport2.0 rendering modes.
I usually delete the material node and start over by bringing in the relevant texture maps while still in whatever rendering mode was producing the problem

Textures in Maya are showing up Black

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