View Image

[glorybound]

I am not able to see anything when I hit VrayBitmap View image in the Material Editor. I pick it, it highlights, but nothing. This has been the case for a while.

[hermit.crab]

Works fine on my end. Does it happen with every image/on every scene?

[glorybound]

Yes, every image and every scene.

[hermit.crab]

I presume different image formats exhibit this behavior as well? Are the paths relative? If so, you would need to add the main path to the External files list.

[fixeighted]

Just a thought; have the textures been converted to, or already are .tx files? In which case they don't display anyway.
Otherwise it's odd.

[glorybound]

I'll record my screen tomorrow.

[glorybound]

Here is a screen recording

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yFZ4ODRewA

[fixeighted]

Not to say that it's the reason, but the other textures in that folder are displaying their format suffix, i.e. .tx for most, though the particular one you're trying to view does not have any suffix.
If the folder is (as it seems) set to show the file format then this seems odd....

[Vizioen]

Not to say that it's the reason, but the other textures in that folder are displaying their format suffix, i.e. .tx for most, though the particular one you're trying to view does not have any suffix.
If the folder is (as it seems) set to show the file format then this seems odd....

He probably has 'Hide extensions for known file formats' enabled.

You sure the window isn't somewhere else not on your monitors?
Might want to try using this trick ALT + SPACEBAR then press M, then press any arrow key, and the window should stick to your cursor now, untill you click for its final position.

[fixeighted]

That could be it yes....it's such an odd error but that narrows it a bit....we shall see I suppose

[glorybound]

Extensions were hidden, so I'll see if that works. Kid of regardless, the MAX view bitmap works.

Might want to try using this trick ALT + SPACEBAR then press M, then press any arrow key, and the window should stick to your cursor now, until you click for its final position.

Great tip!

[vlado]

This has happened to me several times - at the time I thought it was because the texture was not loaded from the path specified in the VRayBitmap exactly, but was found in some other texture path. Apparently the "View image" button looks exactly at the specified path and nowhere else. I'm not sure if that was your case however - the paths appear to match in the video.

Best regards,
Vlado

[glorybound]

Enabling file extensions didn't help. Is there something else that I can try?

[fixeighted]

I'm unsure tbh...I have had issues with Windows whereby it simply refuses after a time to make thumbnails at all.
I never found a fix for it on my old machine, which was a massive headache.
Luckily on my new rig it periodically resurfaces and then seems to fix itself.
It's clearly a problem with 'building a thumbnail database', so maybe that problem somehow propagates to Vray in some bizarre manner.
The thing is in your situation, you can see a thumbnail, so who knows wtf is going on

[kosso_olli]

We had this problem several times with parts of the scene coming in from Xref files or proxies.