Hey everybody, just thought I'd post a solution to a problem I was having with mixing materials that started out as basic materials, the solution was actually provided by Steve in the Beta Forums recently but it's important enough I think to get the word out. All the "basic" materials that come pre-loaded with Vue 5 have animation applied to them when they shouldn't, this was causing a material to not react or to react badly to being mixed with other materials. All you have to do to correct this is follow the following steps: 1) Apply each of the "basic" materials (or any others for that matter that this might happen on) and click on the timeline icon, (see the attached screenshot for what step 2 looks like) 2) In the timeline, expand the "properties" and delete any keyframes that are attached to the material by right-clicking and selecting "delete keyframe". 3) right click on the material after deleting the keyframe and save it back to the directory Vue automatically loads it from <(c:program filese-onsoftwarevue 5 espritmaterialsbasic> in this case. 4) voila! all done, your material is no longer screwed up. Hope this helps, I normally don't even use the basic materials but I was using them to check material boundaries on some objects and blending bands and noticed I couldn't edit the transparency or reflection of the material that started out as an animated one.

Very good advice.....Do you know if this will be corrected in the update???? At my 2nd attempt at the scene I was having trouble with as mentioned below, V5 crashed again while I was attempting to mix/make a new mat. This is a must print :) THANK YOU!!!!

Steve didn't mention it as being in the next update, it may be something they won't include since it's something the user can fix themselves.

Great info Nano and greatly appreciated :)

That's one I'd never have figured out since I haven't ventured into the animated realm yet. Many thanks.

What's funny is neither had I, and Steve was sorta vague on how you would make a material "not animated" he just mentioned that they were animated and weren't supposed to be and I had a hard time figuring out what he meant at first since the only thing I saw in the material editor that related to animation was a check box under the preview that wasn't checked. It wasn't till I started checking out the timeline that I stumbled upon the setting, which up till this point I hadn't even seen before.