2013 can't see MAterial preview in viewport

[justix]

Karba, I can't get material preview on my viewport set to realistic, is this a bug? Tried with perspective and Octane camera but nothing

Max 2013 + Octane 1.0 beta 3.01

[Karba]

Karba, I can't get material preview on my viewport set to realistic, is this a bug? Tried with perspective and Octane camera but nothing
Max 2013 + Octane 1.0 beta 3.01

I don't understand what you mean.
Please show some screenshots.

[gabrielefx]

Karba, I can't get material preview on my viewport set to realistic, is this a bug? Tried with perspective and Octane camera but nothing

Max 2013 + Octane 1.0 beta 3.01

don't you see textures on viewport? you enable them on the material editor?

remember that not texturized mixed materials are black. If you mix a white glossy and a red diffuse on the viewport you get a full black preview. For me I should see an rgb mix = pink.

[justix]

Karba, I can't get material preview on my viewport set to realistic, is this a bug? Tried with perspective and Octane camera but nothing

Max 2013 + Octane 1.0 beta 3.01

don't you see textures on viewport? you enable them on the material editor?

remember that not texturized mixed materials are black. If you mix a white glossy and a red diffuse on the viewport you get a full black preview. For me I should see an rgb mix = pink.

Found out it does when making a glossy material (reading what you described a faster render using a glossy with specular set to 0 )
It seems doing it when start the project importing an external 3Ds file...as the image attached I did apply a diffuse texture in order to 'Activate' the glossy preview too..or the Show shaded material option in the editor was disabled (greyed out)..how odd