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# 1 20-01-2010 , 03:39 AM

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My textures appear to have been turned off or disabled somehow and are showing up as white but appear on the objects when rendered out.

Any suggestions as to how I can get my textures back?

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# 2 20-01-2010 , 04:21 AM

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Have you pressed 6 on the keyboard? Or Shading > Hardware texturing in the panel menu.

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# 3 20-01-2010 , 01:19 PM

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generally if the model is displaying white maya cant find the texture, have you still got it or have you moved it to a different directory??

Jay

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# 4 20-01-2010 , 02:36 PM

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If maya couldnt find the file wouldnt it not render out the texture? I may be wrong but that doesnt seem like it would be the problem.

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# 5 20-01-2010 , 03:12 PM

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It seems that the texture is too big for your video card. Most limit at 2048x2048. Scale the image to this, or lower, and see then.

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# 6 20-01-2010 , 03:19 PM

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Yeah could be the card. I can see 4k maps so...

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# 7 20-01-2010 , 07:00 PM

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stwert- yup, nothing.

Jay - still got it in the same location. Even tried copying it to another location and still got nothing.

NextDesign- actually, the problem occurs all across my computer, no matter how big or small the image is. Yet when I use my external hard drive on my school's computers, they suddenly show up (using the same image location). They have the same exact video card I have. The weird thing is it was working perfectly before. Maybe it finally went boinks.

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# 8 20-01-2010 , 07:06 PM

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If you create a new scene and object, then apply the same texture to it, does it show up? Maybe try deleting your prefs (after backing them up)? Seems to be a common fix-all thing to try.

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# 9 21-01-2010 , 04:51 AM

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Is there a way to disable textures? check in the AE and see if maybe you clicked on something, I dont really know exactly what you would be looking for but I think I remember seeing an option for that.

I will take a look when I can and see if I see anything but I wont have access to Maya for a few hours.

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