https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/arnold-for-cinema-4d-forum/custom-material-previews-for-node-materials-not-working/m-p/11121656#M2617 <P>Hey, some time ago I created some custom Material Preview Scenes based on the standard "Arnold Sphere.c4d" file. Had to update them a couple of Arnold versions ago, but overall they worked fine and helped me to distinguish all my fabric, leather, metal and rubber materials at one glance.&nbsp;</P><P>Now I switched to node materials and now my custom material previews are not working anymore. I can still use all the different previews that come with arnold, but my "cloth", "candle", "gem" etc are defaulting back to a sphere.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><A href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1seVNnWnr8VBqo_yajfrCR23NuCnb_272&amp;authuser=ulrich%40minzgruen.de&amp;usp=drive_fs" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/open?id=1seVNnWnr8VBqo_yajfrCR23NuCnb_272&amp;authuser=ulrich%40minzgruen.de&amp;usp=drive_fs</A></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Is there anything I could do to make them work for node based arnold materials? Maybe even batch apply them to multiple materials at once?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thank you very much!!</P><P>U</P> Fri, 22 Apr 2022 08:33:20 GMT ulrichGTAV3 2022-04-22T08:33:20Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/arnold-for-cinema-4d-forum/custom-material-previews-for-node-materials-not-working/m-p/11121656#M2617 <P>Hey, some time ago I created some custom Material Preview Scenes based on the standard "Arnold Sphere.c4d" file. Had to update them a couple of Arnold versions ago, but overall they worked fine and helped me to distinguish all my fabric, leather, metal and rubber materials at one glance.&nbsp;</P><P>Now I switched to node materials and now my custom material previews are not working anymore. I can still use all the different previews that come with arnold, but my "cloth", "candle", "gem" etc are defaulting back to a sphere.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><A href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1seVNnWnr8VBqo_yajfrCR23NuCnb_272&amp;authuser=ulrich%40minzgruen.de&amp;usp=drive_fs" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/open?id=1seVNnWnr8VBqo_yajfrCR23NuCnb_272&amp;authuser=ulrich%40minzgruen.de&amp;usp=drive_fs</A></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Is there anything I could do to make them work for node based arnold materials? Maybe even batch apply them to multiple materials at once?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thank you very much!!</P><P>U</P> Fri, 22 Apr 2022 08:33:20 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/arnold-for-cinema-4d-forum/custom-material-previews-for-node-materials-not-working/m-p/11121656#M2617 ulrichGTAV3 2022-04-22T08:33:20Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/arnold-for-cinema-4d-forum/custom-material-previews-for-node-materials-not-working/m-p/11121690#M2618 <P>Node Materials do not support custom preview scenes natively, I expect this to be implemented by Maxon at some point. The ones shipped with the plugin are currently hard-coded. You can set the default scene in the <A href="https://docs.arnoldrenderer.com/display/A5AFCUG/Preferences" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arnold Preferences</A>, but that will change it for all materials.</P> Fri, 22 Apr 2022 08:50:14 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/arnold-for-cinema-4d-forum/custom-material-previews-for-node-materials-not-working/m-p/11121690#M2618 peter_horvath 2022-04-22T08:50:14Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/arnold-for-cinema-4d-forum/custom-material-previews-for-node-materials-not-working/m-p/11121704#M2619 <P>Thanks for the info... Unfortunate, but I will be able to live with it <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":winking_face:">😉</span></P> Fri, 22 Apr 2022 08:55:12 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/arnold-for-cinema-4d-forum/custom-material-previews-for-node-materials-not-working/m-p/11121704#M2619 ulrichGTAV3 2022-04-22T08:55:12Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/arnold-for-cinema-4d-forum/custom-material-previews-for-node-materials-not-working/m-p/11213015#M2620 <P>If I'm not mistaken, you added more material preview models. Very awesome!!</P> Fri, 03 Jun 2022 14:48:16 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/arnold-for-cinema-4d-forum/custom-material-previews-for-node-materials-not-working/m-p/11213015#M2620 ulrichGTAV3 2022-06-03T14:48:16Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/arnold-for-cinema-4d-forum/custom-material-previews-for-node-materials-not-working/m-p/11218761#M2621 <BLOCKQUOTE><HR /><a href="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/10834402">@ulrichGTAV3</a>&nbsp;wrote:<BR /><P>If I'm not mistaken, you added more material preview models. Very awesome!!</P><HR /></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Yes, the preview scenes were updated in <A href="https://docs.arnoldrenderer.com/display/A5AFCUG/4.2.2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">C4DtoA 4.2.2</A>. Added a new cloth and volume preview.</P> Tue, 07 Jun 2022 08:23:31 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/arnold-for-cinema-4d-forum/custom-material-previews-for-node-materials-not-working/m-p/11218761#M2621 peter_horvath 2022-06-07T08:23:31Z