Blender Lite Not working on Blender 2.93.4
starry.hello started this discussion in Help and Tips

Every time I import a zmbx model it shows up black with no detail and only in solid shading viewport I can see the base colors and nothing more. I have downloaded the updated version of the addon and blender and installed it correctly Idk why its not working. PLZ help
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It's working for me... This sounds like your viewport shading may be in Solid. Have you tried changing it to Material Preview? Have you tried a different model? Did it work in a previous version of Blender? If you can post a screenshot including the UI, maybe that will help with solving your problem. Here's an example that shows the two different modes:

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51418939908_fc66cb1b4b_o.png

@B1Trash Yes I did that's what's weird it shows the base colors like in solid mode but in material preview, it shows up black. and yes its with all models

there ya go

idk whats going on

Hmm... interesting. Do all objects behave this way or just the models imported from Mecabricks? i.e. what happens if you leave the default cube in the scene and move it next to your minifig?

here is what happens it is only with mecabricks models but idk whats wrong

https://flic.kr/p/2mm3UqM

That's bizarre and beyond anything I can figure out... Hopefully Scrubs or someone else smart can chime in on this one.

Here's a quote from Scrubs on another thread:

The free add-on doesn't support Eevee (which the look dev [Material Preview]* mode uses). Therefore unless you have a powerful enough GPU, it may not work either. Try to render with Cycles and the decorations will appear. If it doesn't please state your Blender version, OS and GPU. Screenshots of your viewport would also be of great help.*

I don't know what's going on here, but I'm wondering if the differences in platform is why it's working for me and not for you. (Windows vs Mac or a GPU thing?)

Idk because i asked on discord and people haven't been having trouble and they are on mac and I switched to cycles and still nothing

also idk why but when im in cycles in rendered it shows up like this but its still black in material preview but everyone else has updated both the addon and blender and are on mac and don't have this problem with the material preview being black
https://flic.kr/p/2mm5afu

So basically the problem could be on my end cuz a lot of people use mac and the updated version of both blender and the addon and have no trouble so idk

ok dont know if this will help figure out what is wrong and what I need to fix but I used the addon on blender 2.90 and the figure did not turn out all black and it actually showed the material
https://flic.kr/p/2mmdRdq

but idk how that will help me fix it for 2.93.4

I'm not sure... hopefully Scrubs or someone else can chime in here.

also here is a video of me uploading and switching through modes

first vid: uploading: https://flic.kr/p/2mmbs6b

second vid the result in preview materiel: https://flic.kr/p/2mme1tz

Hi Treyson-

So I had installed 2.93.4, but I forgot that Blender doesn't delete old installs, so I was actually running 2.92.0 when I tested your issue. When I started using 2.93.4, my decorated bricks were turning pink when using Eevee or the Material Preview. I found a workaround that will allow me to see decorations in Eevee and posted it here: [url]https://mecabricks.com/en/forum/topic/3793[/url]. Hopefully this may work for you as well.

this is the same trouble i am having

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