Over here in Rhino 6 I no longer see a live Vport update while changing material properties, as it used to be in V5. This was extremely helpful to tweak the look of the model. Now I have to close/apply every time to see the changes. Can it be fixed to work again?
Also, is there any way to get rid of the auto-updated-rendered material preview? It is not very helpful, rather annoying and the tiny-bit of a slowdown it causes with every material tweak gets in the way of smooth work.
Hm - that seems wrong… let me ask around here, what people see…
At what point do you see the update? Do you need to exit the color picker? I don’t know if anything has changed in that area in the latest here, but it is possible, I don’t remember three weeks ago very well…
So far, my test sample of 1 also reports instant change in 6.7 - Jarek are you updating to release candidates, or 6.6?
Yes, layer material, this is 99% of what we use materials for. Per-object materials work interactively OK in V6.
In V5 it auto-updates the layer material as well (except the initial go when you change layer material from Default to custom. Then Custom one upates live. That’s what I am missing in V6…)
There have been a huge amount of changes to the code surrounding the Layer Material dialog since V5 and it looks like the live update feature got overlooked. I’ll get on this right now and try to get a fix out for the next service release.
Thanks! We have one other wish that may be somehow related to this - not sure if this is similar mechanism.
It would be also helpful if the same live update was visible while changing the Layer Color (with every color-picker move). Is that something you could implement as well ?
I’m afraid the Layer Color is a completely different system to the Layer Material Color and is not something I can personally comment on or fix.
The ability to disable the automatic preview rendering was accidentally omitted from the Layer Material preview menu (it exists on most other menus in similar UIs). I will try to get this fixed as well.
I see, thanks for the explanation. I see the way to close the automatic preview in Materials panel (don’t know how to bring it back though!), but not in Layers or in Materials tab in Object Properties… So, yes, would be handy to be able to close/disable it in these places, as well.
I just tested the update (got daily build). All works well. There is one more thing that would be good to tweak: currently when I assign a new material to layer from the material list, it will not update in on the objects until I click OK and close the material dialog. Could it work instantly? Now the real-time preview works only on pre-assigned material changes.
That sounds like a good idea, but unfortunately it’s very difficult to do, and at this late stage in Rhino 6 it’s too risky to attempt it. However, we will definitely tackle it in the future. I’ll file a bug report for it.
