viewport: black textures with layers

V-Ray V-Ray for Cinema 4D Issues
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Hi everyone,
I installed the latest build (v5.10.22) and having trouble with the preview of textures if I use layers.
Using a bitmap in the diffuse channel is just fine but after putting it into layers I’m seeing black objects.
I cannot work this way! All my scenes are black!

Do you have a solution?

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@shaio
Hi klex167, I confirm that this do not work right now, you can use a Vray layered shader or insert the C4D layer inside a C4D bake shader, then it will work;)

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Hey
I have kind of the same problem. Textures are missing in the viewport, just black. Found out that the problem apears when using Filter with Gradiation Curve Enabled on the texture. When Disabling the Graduation Curve the texture shows up again in the viewport.

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Same solution, use a C4DBake shader, in alternative you can grade your texture using the remap shader available on the node editor:

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Of course those are only workarounds, texture preview should be fixed;)

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Hello and thank you for your reports.

I managed to reproduce this issue and I logged it in our internal bug tracking system (VC4D-1083) for fixing. I will let you know once we have more information. Until then, you could use the workaround that @sirio76 mentioned and load the texture inside VRayC4DBake shader. Thank you.

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Thank you guys!

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Hi everyone,

This issue was fixed and you can find the fix in our latest stable build. You can download it and install it from here:

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Thank you Aleksandar! This was very important.