topic Re: Material not showing in viewport in Installation & Licensing Forum

Material not showing in viewport

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 13:30:43 GMT

Hello everyone,

I'm having an issue with my 3DS Max 2015 x64. It's running on Windows 7 professionnal x64.

In 3DS Max, the materials (or the default color for that matter) doesn't show up in the viewport. I don't see any surfaces. I can only see the edges when I select an object, or always if I check wireframe. I tried changing the options for the material display, and changed the rendering from realistic to shaded to constitent colors, but none of these changed anything.

I did re-install it but the problem still exists.

Thanks in advance for your answers,

Clement.

Re: Material not showing in viewport

Steve_Curley — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 14:10:29 GMT

Customize > Preferences > Viewports. At the very bottom of the dialog "Choose Driver". Try the options, if you have to use anything but the top one (Nitrous D3D 11) then your graphics card is inadequate for running Max (probably an onboard HD4000). If that's the case you need a proper graphics card.

Re: Material not showing in viewport

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 15:20:26 GMT

Hi,

I did use Nitrous D3D11, and except that bug, it worked fine. I just tried Nitrous D3D9 and the bug is gone.

Just to answer you, this computer is my mom's and I needed to install Max on it to work during my holidays. It's not supposed to be used for 3D.

Thank you for the tip about the drivers.

Everything works fine now.

Seeya,

Clément.

Re: Material not showing in viewport

Anonymous — Sun, 17 Dec 2017 09:41:11 GMT

What is the different between between Nitrous Direct 3D 11 and Nitrous Direct 3D 9 ?
and if Nitrous Direct 3D 11 don't work my view port and i use Nitrous Direct 3D 9 .. it's okay ?

@Anonymous wrote:
Customize > Preferences > Viewports. At the very bottom of the dialog "Choose Driver". Try the options, if you have to use anything but the top one (Nitrous D3D 11) then your graphics card is inadequate for running Max (probably an onboard HD4000). If that's the case you need a proper graphics card.

Re: Material not showing in viewport

Steve_Curley — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 15:17:47 GMT

You should find that many things which have been a part of Max for a long time will function perfectly. However, any new features which absolutely depend on D3D11 will almost certainly not. Keep away from new features which may require D3D11 and you should be ok, though long term it's something you should address.

Re: Material not showing in viewport

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 15:44:54 GMT

Im having this problem but I dont think its something wrong with a 1080 ti that I have... =/

Re: Material not showing in viewport

Anonymous — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 13:16:12 GMT

I was having this same issue, in Max 2017 with a geforce 1080. Really frustating.

Switching it to direct x 9, restarting max, switching it back to direct x 11, then restarting max again, seems to have fixed it.

Re: Material not showing in viewport

Anonymous — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 13:23:43 GMT

I uninstalled 3D max and installed it back again and it went back to normal. gl

Re: Material not showing in viewport

Anonymous — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 13:25:45 GMT

What I have done is to uninstall 3D Max and install it back again and it went back to normal. So if u havent done that try just to clean all files included and just start from start.

Gl m8 I feel ur paint

Re: Material not showing in viewport

Anonymous — Sat, 10 Mar 2018 08:42:27 GMT

hai, sir i am woring in 3d designer in 3dsmax same problem for me alos its not rendaring my materials nitrous direct3D 11 is there can you tell me the problem what is hppen and tell me the solutin for that..

Re: Material not showing in viewport

ard-nax — Sat, 08 Dec 2018 08:22:21 GMT

Stop! STOP EVERYBODY! Do not uninstall or anything else. I solved finally. I have a GTX 1080Ti so the problem wasn't the graphics card. Just click in the viewport's top left view's preset section (It's shown depending on what you use: [Standard] or [High Quality] etc.). Choise an another one like "Performance", than back to your previous one. And done! This is reloading textures and everything is fine! Hurraaayy!!! 😄

Re: Material not showing in viewport

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 13:44:46 GMT

it worked...duude it worked i cant thank you enough man...really appreciate it

Re: Material not showing in viewport

Anonymous — Sun, 26 Jan 2020 15:15:51 GMT

Hello!

I am new to 3ds max 2020 and I am unable to change the material of my project although I have followed the basics.

Re: Material not showing in viewport

Mark.Lancaster — Sun, 26 Jan 2020 16:39:38 GMT

@Anonymous

Welcome to the Autodesk User's Community..

This forum is about installation and licensing. Not sure why workflow or steps regarding 3DS Max is here.

Anyhow you should be posting in the 3DS Max forum where the actual users are: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/3ds-max-forum/bd-p/area-b200

Re: Material not showing in viewport

Anonymous — Wed, 05 May 2021 08:44:33 GMT

Also, try to select object you want to show material , then chose DISPLAY option in edit meny (command panel) and change from OBJECT COLOR to MATERIAL COLOR.

that helped in my case

Re: Material not showing in viewport

areebaabdulwahid32 — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 22:35:49 GMT

thanks it worked....

Re: Material not showing in viewport

RobH2 — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:28:50 GMT

Even many years later now, I had an issue with all the materials in a file showing as Gray. I'm very familiar with Max and just couldn't figure it out. Changing the 'Display Color' from the 'Command Panel/Display' settings to 'Material Color' solved it for me thanks to @Anonymous.