Browse Materials black boxes thing

[Wheatos]

Is this just a fact of the browse materials tab?

The glitchy black boxes only clear up if you're looking in a certain direction on a certain part of a map, however, i17 snow doesn't seem to have any or at least none of the same locations as i17 so...is there a fix for this? I've sort of just been dealing with it for the past few years.

 

[Sinclair]

I get the same issue, it's really weird but the only work around I've seen is looking in the right spot like you said. I think it might just be a quirk with Gmod.

 

[Nerdbird]

I’ve always had that and have to hover over the materials to get a semblance of what it’s supposed to look like.

 

[strangled]

i believe it's due to how GMOD displays materials rather than how it displays models

when displaying models, the model is literally rendered in a 3d window temporarily so an icon can be generated. that render is then closed so another auto-render can begin, and so on and so on

i believe valve texture files are displayed in the GMOD gui by rendering the material across a 'window' tile and when you see a black tile, it's due to some weird consequence of how materials in the GUI still get lighting from in game.

you can see this in action by walking around in various lighting conditions and see that your view of the texture will come and go appropriately