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Materials greyed out in Material Manager
Posted: 14 April 2017 04:38 PM   [ Ignore ]  
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Hi.  Can anybody explain why certain materials are greyed out in the Material Manager window?  I’ve attached a screengrab showing that the “Sodalime,” “Concrete 01,” and “Metal - Rusty Steel” materials have a light grey overlay.  The “Metal - Rusty Steel” material, for instance, is part of the Broadcast collection of materials.  I’ve used it before, but never seen it load with the grey overlay.

Thanks so much!

Mark

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Posted: 14 April 2017 05:24 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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Hi Mark_S_Johnson,

Please check the Layers [Layer Browser], is there perhaps a lock on this layer?

I can give you an upload link for the scene file, so I can have a closer look, instead of guessing.

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Posted: 14 April 2017 05:34 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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Thanks for your reply, Doc!  I don’t see any locks, yet I also don’t know much about the Layers Manager.  I’m happy to upload the scene file if you’re willing to take a peek.

Thanks!

Mark

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Posted: 14 April 2017 05:50 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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Thanks Mark, I have send an upload link to your Private Messages (Cineversity PM).
Please have a look.

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Posted: 14 April 2017 06:52 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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Mark,

I can load the file just fine. Normally one can see a colorful triangle when a material is on a layer, but if that layer is gray, it might be hard to recognize.
A substance couldn’t be loaded, no idea if that was the case, I don’t think so that this caused the trouble.
I exclude as well the use of XRef here as the little x in the lower corner doesn’t show up.
All textures were naturally missing, but since it didn’t grayed out here, I do not think it was the problem.

A rough representation of my exploration is here, just a sketch:
https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/share/4qdKDlSaXHNyZjgn9ybQqSashsNFrlewIMEv8hZ3bt0?ref_=cd_ph_share_link_copy

There are three options:

Create a layer and place them onto the new layer, if they had a layer at one point and the file got buggy this might heal it. Perhaps see what happens if you go to Material Manager>Function> Render all Materials, you will see that they get temporarily grayed out. Perhaps they got stuck doing so before.

Select all (in the Object Manager and copy it, open up a new scene file and paste it.

If both option do not work, check with the Support:
https://www.maxon.net/en-us/support/how-can-we-help/

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Posted: 14 April 2017 07:52 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]  
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Doc, copying and pasting all objects into a new scene seemed to work.  Thanks so much!

Mark

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Posted: 14 April 2017 07:54 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]  
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Thanks for the feedback, Mark.

I’m glad it was fixed quickly.

Have a great weekend

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Posted: 14 April 2017 11:05 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]  
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Enjoy your weekend, too, my friend!

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Posted: 14 April 2017 11:07 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]  
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Very nice of you, Mark, thanks a lot!

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