Shaded mode does not show materials

[bravid2001]

Hello,

I have attached a file. I can't see my shaders in the window but I can see them when I hit render. I am using Maya 8. The shaded material in shaded mode (6) seems see through.

I'm pretty sure there is a setting I'm missing. Please let me know if you need more info.

Thanks. 

[bravid2001]

I found the answer in a previous post. Here it is:

Check the Maya 4 Release Notes. The answer is below:

Limitation: Polygonal objects or portions of polygonal objects with no UV textures coordinates appear "stippled*" when viewed in hardware texture shading mode (hotkey 6).

(*looks kinda invisible or x-ray view)

Workaround: Create new UV coordinates by selecting the faces of the object and using any of of the following tools

in the Edit Polygons>Texure View menu:

• Planar Mapping, - Cylindrical Mapping, Spherical Mapping, Create UVs based on Camera, Normalize UVs, Unitiize UVs, and Best Plane Texturing. If you don not want to create new UVs you can view the object properly by viewing it in the shaded mode.