Blinn Texture And Color Won't Show Up

[phastroh]

I created a Blinn for some cables.

I went and created a grid texture and linked it to my Blinn but the cables appearance did not update to the new colors and texture in my viewport.

When I apply or break the link from the texture to my Blinn the cable changes in appearance but only slightly and does not take on the the color or the Grid I used for texturing.

I want to add that if I just change the color of the Blinn it updates accordingly.

[fxnurbs]

you cannot see everything in the viewport, a lot of things depend of your graphic card and hardware. Trust only the render view.
What i do generally is creating a basic lambert and i apply my texture in color, do all the settings and when it seems all right i connect the texture in the transparency or bump or whatever of my right shader.

Cheers

[phastroh]

Thanks for the information.

I actually don't think I did check my render window because I was following a tutorial and had closed it to make room even while running 2 monitors.

I will tonight when I get home.

As far as hardware I run a Mac Pro Dual 3.0 Quad Core with the 7300GT video card and 13Gigs of RAM.

I was hoping I wouldn't have to deal with these issues but I guess it is unavoidable no matter what.

Thanks again.

[fxnurbs]

13 Go ram !!!!???!!!! congratulation
your computer probably can do the coffee as well haha

for the hardware, yeah whatever you use, you cannot see everything in the viewport, and the mac video drivers are sometime a bit more silly.

cheers

[joojaa]

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13 G ram

Well atleast you will have a biig memory disk Unfortunately memory problsm cant be fixed by buying more ram. Just too much internals that are the bottleneck to just simply foce the hand this way.

Anyway your computer has a serious bottleneck that i neither the memory or the cores. Its the bandwidth of your bus and you gfx card.