Missing material preview

General
#1

Flax 1.6 and 1.7.1

In any Flax project that I create I never get a material preview in the material editor. I always see just this:

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I have checked that the model view is on sphere and the debug view is on default.

However, I can open the Materials Features Tour project and everything works as you would expect. But if I copy one of the basic materials (eg 2a, the single color model) and paste it into one of my projects the preview is no longer there. The materials work fine and I can see them update in the editor and game views, it just would be nice to have the previewer working in the material editor.

#2

Strange this was initially fixed by update 1.7.6407.2 , but after using it for a bit, the material preview is broken again…

#3

This problem is caused by data corruption in the ProjectCache.dat file within the Flax project Cache/ directory

Close Flax and delete the file fixes the problem (do make sure you have saved your scene data before deleting this). If you aren’t sure, just rename this file to broken.dat.