"Show shaded material in viewport" when using a VrayBumpMtl

[sebastien_berthier1]

I often use VrayBumpMtl instead of chamfering my geomettries. It s very useful but then the material is not visible in the viewport anymore. Is that a big thing to implement?

[matanov]

Is it visible when you enable the shading of the base mtl?

[sebastien_berthier1]

Thanks for the answer Peter.
I have the same settings as you. The logo "Show shaded material in the viewport" is greyed out.

I m using vray 5, update 2.2 (happens both with GPU and CPU)

[sebastien_berthier1]

It also happens in all of my scenes.

[matanov]

It is normal to be greyed out for the VRayBumpMtl. You should enable it in the base mtl like in my screenshot.

[sebastien_berthier1]

OK.Now it works. The problem was due to my viewport settings. Thanks again Peter.

[caypiranha]

by chance, I was doing the same here right now. My Object was a single color one and then switched to be grey/ shaderless as yours, while having EdgeTex applied.
But when I applied a simple (maybe also only senseless) UV mapping and the color/textures has been coming back to viewport.
So Peters test box was mapped by default and yours maybe then not. (I was using a cad obj import, which didn´t contain UV mapping).

should that be the case also on yours?

[sebastien_berthier1]

Hey,
Thank you for spending the time to try it out as well. My object had a uvw modifier on.
I just had to reset my viewport preview preset. I do not know exactly what I changed for the textures to be invisible, but all is good now.

[caypiranha]

So same symptoms - different reasons & solutions... anyway all good to know =)