# Active shade in MAX black....why?

**URL:** <https://forums.chaos.com/t/active-shade-in-max-black-why/1514>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [September 19, 2003, 9:52am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/active-shade-in-max-black-why/1514 "2003-09-19T09:52:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![mzmeskal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aeb1de/32.png) [@mzmeskal](https://forums.chaos.com/u/mzmeskal)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2003, 9:52am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/active-shade-in-max-black-why/1514/1 "2003-09-19T09:52:17Z")

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Why is active shade screen rendering black…doesnt vray support it?

Also, I have problem with OGL display in the viewports. The texturest dont show up…I tried to tweak everything but its still not there…  
Iam running on Gforce 3…

Please help

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**Author:** ![gafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9fc348/32.png) [@gafl](https://forums.chaos.com/u/gafl)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2003, 1:27pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/active-shade-in-max-black-why/1514/2 "2003-09-19T13:27:17Z")

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Hi Mzmeskal !

What you mean is about the material editor slot where you  
have a black sphere ?

The solution is easy :  
Open the Option panel of the material editor.  
In the renderer section, change scaliner for the other one.  
That’s all !  
Then it will be Vray renderer that will refresh your active slots.  
You must be sure that Vray is in use in Max renderer.

Have fun with Vray…  
Gael

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**Author:** ![Daniele](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dfb087/32.png) [@Daniele](https://forums.chaos.com/u/Daniele)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2003, 1:32pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/active-shade-in-max-black-why/1514/3 "2003-09-19T13:32:10Z")

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If U mean the activeshade viewport, I think that VRay doesn’t support it!

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**Author:** ![samifox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@samifox](https://forums.chaos.com/u/samifox)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 2:54pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/active-shade-in-max-black-why/1514/4 "2004-02-12T14:54:48Z")

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> [@Daniele](#):
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> If U mean the activeshade viewport, I think that VRay doesn’t support it!

is that the final answer?

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**Author:** ![samifox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@samifox](https://forums.chaos.com/u/samifox)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 3:21pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/active-shade-in-max-black-why/1514/5 "2004-02-12T15:21:49Z")

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and …is there any renderer in the industry that supports ActiveShade?

Thanks  
S