Max Material editor

V-Ray V-Ray for 3ds Max General
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Hello all,

I was wondering if this as happened to anyone. I just upgraded my OS to XP 64 and installed Max 2010 and this is what the material editor looks like. Before I upgraded the OS, I installed the 32 bit version of Max without vray installed and the material editor appeared normal. At first I thought it was a graphic driver issue and it still may be that. I’m still using the same graphics card but now with a 64bit driver. My card is a NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600. The only plug-in I installed related to the material editor was the color correct plug-in. I installed it when I ran the 32 bit test run of max and there were no problems so I was wondering if Vray somehow could have caused this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Scott.

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Ok……I found the problem. It seemed when I rebooted my machine, the vray lic. Server was not activated. After re-activating the Lic server, the material editor returned to normal. Every time you turn you machine on, is it required to activate the Lic. Server?

Thanks,

Scott.

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you can run it as a service. You had that option when you installed it.

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You can also register the license server to run automatically from Start menu > Chaos Group > V-Ray for 3ds Max > Licensing > Administration > Register the V-Ray license service.

Best regards,
Vlado

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or you can put the vrl license server.exe into your startup folder for windows.