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  • External textures don’t show up in viewport

    Posted by Logan Mooring on February 11, 2017 at 10:03 am

    Exactly what it says it is. All of a sudden, all of my external textures disappeared in the viewport but are still in the render. all renders are proper but the viewport isn’t. If I have a skin texture I made imported into the software, it turns the texture a random colour and it blends it into the material.

    I use Release 14 if that’s important.

    Help? This is a serious inconvenience

    Michell Artist replied 5 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 7 Replies
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  • Jim Scott

    February 11, 2017 at 5:56 pm

    You may have inadvertently turned off Textures in the viewport’s “Options” menu. Keyboard shortcut N>Q.

  • Logan Mooring

    February 12, 2017 at 1:09 am

    Thanks but just tried that and it wasn’t off. Any other odd settings maybe?

  • Logan Mooring

    February 12, 2017 at 4:26 pm

    I have a hunch. How do you disable and re enable luminance in the viewport? I think that may be the problem

  • Jim Scott

    February 12, 2017 at 5:25 pm

    I’m sorry that I can’t be of more help, but other than the “Textures” option in the viewport’s Options menu I don’t know what may be causing your issue. Luminance is tied to the texture tag and will be enabled and disabled in the viewport by enabling or disabling it in the material’s texture tag. Other channels, like Glow and Displacement, must be rendered to be seen.

    Are you experiencing the disappearing textures with any texture applied to an object, or just specific ones? Perhaps you could upload your project file for others to take a look at.

  • Logan Mooring

    February 12, 2017 at 11:49 pm

    Unfortunately, the issue is with ALL project files. and all materials. I haven’t seen anyone else with this problem and, my computer just updated right before it happened so I wonder if the older program is clashing with the new windows 10 updates.

    I’ll see if there’s anything outside the program causing the issue. Thank you for your help though

  • Logan Mooring

    February 13, 2017 at 2:12 am
  • Michell Artist

    September 22, 2020 at 1:57 am

    I fixed. If yu are working with a PSD document. Create a new one with a new name. apply again and ready to see.

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