Shaders not showing up in Cycles (Blender 2.8)

wgarts · Aug 2019

Okay, I am sure it has to be something dumb. But my materials are not showing up in cycles. Not even when its rendered out. Ive tried cycles / eevee. CPU, GPU, nothing. This is not my material its actually from an artist named Simon Thommes who gave it away.

Left image is my live viewport in cycles in rendered mode.
Right image is the shader that is applied to the left object.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/5x/47eklqia9qyb.png

.Wiki · Aug 2019

Does your object have uvs?

wgarts · Aug 2019

.Wiki said:

Does your object have uvs?

Its said to be 100% procedural. Its also interesting that I opened their project file and it shows up fine. So it has to be a setting somewhere.

RN · Aug 2019

How did you import the material into your new scene?

Did you check if there's any embedded images in the original file?

wgarts · Aug 2019

RN said:

How did you import the material into your new scene?
Did you check if there's any embedded images in the original file?

I did, I chose APPEND > .BLEND FILE > MATERIALS > MATERIAL.

rexo12 · Aug 2019

regardless, does your object actually have UVs? (And did the sample object in the project file have UVs?)

The material still needs some kind of coordinate space to map to, even if it is procedural. By default it will use the UV space. You can change this by using a Texture Coordinate node and plugging one of the values into the Vector input on your images. (I can't tell, but it doesn't seem like there's one in your screenshot).

https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/shader_nodes/input/texture_coordinate.html

I'd generally recommend using the UV space anyway just for the fine control you get over it.

RyanB · Aug 2019

Is Cycles enabled?

Shaders not showing up in Cycles (Blender 2.8)

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