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Problem with Material Manager

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Hey all,

Does anyone ever have issues with Materials displaying in the Material Manager in Max 2012?

I have hiding textures that do not show up in the scene. I create a new Material and it disappears from the viewports, but when I click on the Part with the new FSX material with the eyedropper, it shows up in the Material slot (Sphere thing) with the proper details.

I sware I had 2 textures 'disappear' the other day, after I created them, which was a big process.


Anyone else hear of this happening? Do I have 'wacky setting' active or something? My thoughts are it might be a side effect of running a 32bit program in an x86 OS.

I looked through settings and didnt find anything like 'hide your Materials from you constantly' or make Spheres turn black, etc. I also posted this question at CGSociety a couple of days ago. One person suggested switching over different default Renderers. (I didnt try that. Maybe that just might be the issue. But... FSX Material shows up on the list with default Scanline renderer, so I wouldnt think it would be the issue. MR Materials show up only when MR is actively set. Shouldnt FSX behave the same?).

Bill
 
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Fixed....

Somehow, I had turned on 'Update Active Only' in Options/Options in the Material Manager.


sigh...

Might have well been a blue and white button.
 
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