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# 1 06-08-2011 , 11:19 PM
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Getting a blocky render preview

So I'm working on texturing and want to see how my bump is coming out. However, when I try to render I get a blocky render as seen below.

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What is see in my normal viewer

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# 2 06-08-2011 , 11:50 PM
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what do you see in your viewport if you press "1"?
 
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# 3 06-08-2011 , 11:56 PM
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Nothing happens???
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# 4 07-08-2011 , 12:08 AM
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I seem to remember mental ray being an option that did good renders, but it's gone from the drop menu for some reason???
 
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# 5 07-08-2011 , 12:14 AM
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Got it. For some reason Mental Ray was un-checked in my plug in manager. All I had to do was check load on Mayatomr.ml and...

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Humm, my bump doesn't seem to be working though...
 
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