# No more ActiveShade Renderer !

**URL:** <https://forums.chaos.com/t/no-more-activeshade-renderer/41773>\
**Category:** Issues\
**Created:** [June 18, 2012, 9:33am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/no-more-activeshade-renderer/41773 "2012-06-18T09:33:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![AltoR](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/altor/32/33160_2.png) [@AltoR](https://forums.chaos.com/u/AltoR)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 9:33am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/no-more-activeshade-renderer/41773/1 "2012-06-18T09:33:58Z")

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Hello,

I am facing a very annoying problem: usually, when I hold a mouse left click on the little pointing down arrow near the “Render” button on the bottom of the “Render Setup” Dialog box (F10), there comes a drop-down menu giving me the choice of the render I want to work with: Production renderer, draft renderer or ActiveShade renderer.  
Since a couple of days, holding a left click on this arrow doesn’t show up any drop-down menu, so I can’t choose to work with VRay RT anymore !  
I uninstalled 3ds max Design 2013 x64, I installed it again, I uninstalled VRay (2.30.01), I installed it again but … the problem remains.

Please help me: I just can’t live without VRay RT 😢

Thank you,

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**Author:** ![cadmonkey33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@cadmonkey33](https://forums.chaos.com/u/cadmonkey33)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 10:29am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/no-more-activeshade-renderer/41773/2 "2012-06-18T10:29:07Z")

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edit: didnt read your post properly. never mind.

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**Author:** ![Dariusz\_Makowski\_Dadal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@Dariusz\_Makowski\_Dadal](https://forums.chaos.com/u/Dariusz_Makowski_Dadal)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 10:35am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/no-more-activeshade-renderer/41773/3 "2012-06-18T10:35:34Z")

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Yea I noticed strange stuff happening in max 2013 too haha =D my net render was gone for a while… =D

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**Author:** ![AltoR](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/altor/32/33160_2.png) [@AltoR](https://forums.chaos.com/u/AltoR)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 1:04pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/no-more-activeshade-renderer/41773/4 "2012-06-18T13:04:05Z")

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Main toolbar solved it

Searching in the 3dsmax help, I found a workaround: I didn’t pay attention close enough to the main toolbar, there is a button (this one works, thank you Autodesk !) that lets you choose between “Production”, “Render Iterative” and “ActiveShade” … so it solved my problem, but, this bug remains in the Render panel and it’s quite strange … :roll:

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**Author:** ![AltoR](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/altor/32/33160_2.png) [@AltoR](https://forums.chaos.com/u/AltoR)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 10:23am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/no-more-activeshade-renderer/41773/5 "2012-06-21T10:23:26Z")

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Does anybody know how to make my ActiveShade button back please ? This is really too anoying …

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**Author:** ![vlado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/779978/32.png) [@vlado](https://forums.chaos.com/u/vlado)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 12:28pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/no-more-activeshade-renderer/41773/6 "2012-06-21T12:28:20Z")

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Probably you need to delete some 3ds Max .ini file or UI file somewhere… unfortunately I don’t know which one.

Best regards,  
Vlado