topic Re: Materials are all black.. in 3ds Max Forum

Materials are all black..

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 13:25:17 GMT

Hi..

I just want to ask the reason my material for 3ds max became all black?it means that,its cant detect the material.. is it because of the license or what? Thank you.

Best regards,
Adilah

Re: Materials are all black..

irishman_team_kilber — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 13:30:56 GMT

the license has nothing to with the material are you talking about the materials themselves the material editors, or when you assign the material to an object have you any lights in your scene?

can you post some images of the render and the viewport to see the problem is and give more detail

Re: Materials are all black..

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 13:53:53 GMT

hi..

Thank you for replying my post.. Here, i provide the picture what i mean.

...some usual reasons

5vil — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 14:20:23 GMT

Not certain. But might be some reason such as:

You haven't switch to VRay render engine in F10 panel. It still use standard scanline, maybe?
There're setting in Material editor that only update active slot (other slots remain black). All will be black in 1st open file. But this case is rare unless you use someone else PC. But looks like you clicked in one of slots, it's still black.. then it's not the case.
VRay installation problem.

Little note: Use Printscreen button on your keyboard easier and provide better quality in screenshot (angle, brightness, etc...). It's digital.

Re: ...some usual reasons

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 14:25:05 GMT

Hi 5vil,

Thank you for replying. I'm accepting your reasons. I will try to find out it first based on your reasons. Thank you for the little note too. have a nice day. 🙂

Re: Materials are all black..

Alfred.DeFlaminis — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 00:07:34 GMT

Hello @Anonymous,

This might be a better question for the Vray forums but in a general sense from my (long) experience with Vray this is because the license server doesn't have a license, is turned off, or is being blocked via a firewall. Or, another user in your workplace took the last license or your current material renderer isn't Vray. To check your license server you can go to a browser window and type:

localhost:30304

Also double check here:

From there you can check the status of your license server. Can you please check those for me? If this is a new installation of Vray you need to get your dongle programmed by emailing them a file generated from that menu. Your reseller or the help file should have walked you though it. Please let me know if this helps!

Best Regards,

Re: Materials are all black..

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 01:20:33 GMT

Hi Alfred,

Thank you for replying me. Yes, after checking, it is because of Vray License. Now, it works already. 🙂

Re: Materials are all black..

Alfred.DeFlaminis — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 02:19:50 GMT

Thank you very much for the confirmation on that @Anonymous, kudos to you sir for being community minded. I'm glad it's working for you now!

Best Regards,

Re: Materials are all black..

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 06:15:49 GMT

Hi
I was working with 3dmax that suddenly I came across this issue that in material editor all material became in black .
I have licence so shouldn't be licence issue also I can render and I can see all material in the renders looks good. the issue is I cant detect material .

I found one way for myself which is not ideal that I just change the Target from production rendering mode to
activeshade mode and then I can see the material but if I want to render again I need to change the target to production rendering mode .
is there any reason that I cant see the material as they are?

Re: Materials are all black..

sourabhmahra91 — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 10:02:48 GMT

I faced the same problem, and I am sure that this was not due to licensing errors. The bug is linked with switching rendering engines and adding lights. I was using Vray in past, then decided to switch back to Arnold. All the materials were showing properly, but as soon as I added the default Arnold sky map in the texture of Arnold light and clicked on render, all of a sudden every material turned black in the material editor.

But when I click on the specif materials to preview them (the ball-shaped preview), it was actually showing the correct material, and also in the material editor slot, it was restored (only this material was non-black now).