Materials preview

Lunau

Hi,

I got the latest Evolve build 5559 and El Capitan on my mac.

With the new version of Evolve I get an 'No Preview' in the palette, when I save a new texture. I had that problem in previous versions of Evolve, but I usually got it right, when I opened the Materials Browser.

ArjunA_22390

Hi Lunau,

This is a known issue. Unfortunately the JPG preview is not being created when you save a new material. The material itself is created correctly.

Here is a workaround if you want to create the preview images (after you have saved the new material to library):

1. Save your new material, say 'x', to the library
2. Open the file Sphere.evo from SolidThinking 2016.1.5559/MaterialsLib
3. Apply the material to the sphere in the scene (you may have to zoom out the perspective view a little bit)
4. Render using Progressive rendering - should take about a minute or two
5. Navigate to MaterialsLib/5/ and choose the group of material used in step1
   • In this folder the newly created material(x) will have the following files -  x.mat.thea, x.stMat and x.tag
   • Copy the render from step 3 and rename it x.jpg
6. Relaunch Evolve

We will fix this in our upcoming 2016.2 release

Sorry for the inconvenience caused.