Strange Problem: I lost the material panel and some others

[Thomas_Helzle]

Hi,
today I started my Rhino 7 (latest version) and wanted to work on an older model.
But to my total surprise, the materials panel is missing.
Also, if I select it from the panels menu, I see the command in the commandline, but nothing happens.
The same is true for almost all render-related panels other than lights:

• Materials
• Environments
• Textures
• Sun
• Ground Plane
• Rendering
• Libraries
  Those all don’t work when I select them from the Panels Menu.
  They are also missing from the list in the Panels Gear Menu:
  
  

I have no idea how that is even possible…
I didn’t use Rhino in a while on this machine, so didn’t notice it before.

The exact version is:
Version 7 SR23
(7.23.22282.13001, 2022-10-09)
Commercial

I’m running Windows 10 with all latest updates.
Any hint would be very welcome!

Thanks and cheers,

Tom

[pascal (Pascal Golay)]

Hi Tom please make sure that, in Options > Plug-ins page, the Renderer Development Kit plug-ins are enabled.

-Pascal

[Thomas_Helzle]

You are my saviour Pascal!
I recently installed and uninstalled some plugins and some of them didn’t go away so I looked into the plugins panel and disabled them manually,
I somehow must have disabled that one by accident then.
Phew, thanks a ton!!!

Back to work then

Cheers,

Tom