Normals not showing up in realistic viewport with lighting in 3dmax

Wayfray · Dec 2013

Hi everyone,

My lighting setup seems to prevent my normal maps from having any effect on my low poly models. Here is a screenshot of the shaded viewport mode, where the normals are fine, and realistic, where I can't see them. Can anyone tell me how I could change my lighting to fix this?

AgelosAp · Dec 2013

Have you tried re-enabling the maps? Realistic>Materials>Realistic materials with maps

Luka · Dec 2013

doesnt nitrous have some broken normal display from the start and no attempt to have it fixed?

Wayfray · Dec 2013

Thanks for the responses. Re-enabling maps didn't seem to do anything, but switching to another driver from Nitrous did allow my normals to show up. I switched back to Nitrous' broken viewport for now since I didn't feel like navigating the new viewport config menu.

Bubba91873 · Dec 2013

I also cannot see normal maps in 3ds max 2014 with nitrous enabled. directx works though.

Normals not showing up in realistic viewport with lighting in 3dmax

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