Hi all
I’m doing well with the course, but I have a problem seeing materials that have been assigned to faces.
I know they are there as when fully rendered (and SHIFT-Z) the red rings show up.
In solid mode, however, they are not there.
I can’t use Blender Render as it crashes the app when rendering, but the rings don’t show up in solid mode on that setting either.
Any thoughts?
Hi perfectly4med,
I’m fairly new to Blender as well, but if I’m not mistaken you can resolve your problem by switching from ‘Solid view’ to ‘Materials view’ in the viewport. Just click the dropdown menu at the bottom of your screen next to the mode selection menu. Good luck!
Best,
Wouter
I’m afraid that doesn’t work either!
I’ve found Blender 2.79 for Mac hidden away under Beta, and it’s behaving a little better. Materials view now works, though Blender Render still freezes.
You could try using Cycles Render instead. To be fair: I’m not quite clear on the differences, but I had it recommended on some YouTube tutorials before I started this course and it worked for me like a charm.