Viewport Shader Rollout

Material Editor > Viewport Shader rollout

Lets you select a viewport shader for viewing Direct3D hardware shaders. Viewport shaders require the Direct3D graphics driver, which uses DirectX. With DirectX shading, materials in a viewport more accurately represent how the material will appear in another application, or on other hardware such as a game engine.

Viewport shaders are especially useful for previewing texture-baked materials.

Note: This rollout does not appear for Multi/Sub-Object and Shell materials, which are simply containers of other materials.

Interface

Drop-down list—Use the drop-down list to choose a viewport shader.

Enabled—Turn on Enabled to use the shader in shaded viewports. Default=off.

When not enabled, viewports continue to use the default viewport (interactive) renderer (or the ActiveShade renderer, if that has been chosen).