[Mnemonix]

Anyone knows how i can preview my pixel/vertex shaders in a viewport of 3dsmax4/4.2 (not 5) to see my models with it ?

[trix_3]

Is this what you mean?

Just push the 'VertCol' button

[Carl Schmidt]

I believe he is talking about hardware shaders. You need to run Max in Direct X to see them and assign them through the materials editor. Unfortunately Max 4.x does not really do a good job with them. Max 5 supports them better using NVIDIA's CG in DX8.1. DX9 will be working soon as well hopefully.

-Carl

[Mnemonix]

in the material editor I don't find anything :/ where is to load .vso and .pso files ?
I will be to thing in updating to 3dsmax5

[Carl Schmidt]

You need to configure your paths so that they point to the "Hardware Shaders" folder.

-Carl

[insurektion]

yeah 4 sux for shading id reccomend getting brazil

[Mnemonix]

I have found the vertex/pixel shaders support in version 4, but it is too poor, doesn't support .pso/.psh and .vso/vsh hardware shaders source code files, I will have make a plugin myself, or update to max5 :/

insurektion, these type of shading/rendering isn't which about I'm talking about, but thanks anyway