Not sure what’s going on, but it’s something I’ve noticed in a project that I’ve been working on for both 4.14 and now 4.15 (forward rendering).
But my Content Browser icons are showing up very very dark. This is particularly frustrating for materials.
You can see in the example below; there’s one that’s okay, the rest are very dark.
Any ideas?
Nothing? Any help on this would be hugely appreciated. It’s odd I can’t find any info.
KVogler
(KVogler)
February 24, 2017, 8:28pm
3
I expierienced the same thing. The forward renderer makes the preview dark.
What I could find about the forwrad renderer in the 4.14 realease notes (excerpt):
Supported forward rendering features include:
Full support for stationary lights, including dynamic shadows from movable objects which blend together with precomputed environment shadows
Multiple reflection captures blended together with parallax correction
Planar reflections of a partial scene, composited into reflection captures
D-Buffer decals
Precomputed lighting and skylights
Unshadowed movable lights
Capsule shadows
Instanced stereo compatible
Some features are not yet supported with Forward Shading:
Screen space techniques (SSR, SSAO, Contact Shadows)
Shadow casting Movable Lights
Dynamically shadowed translucency
Translucency receiving environment shadows from a stationary light
Light functions and IES profiles
Alpha to Coverage
MSAA on D-Buffer decals, motion blur, dynamic shadows and capsule shadows
Soooo, my guess was that the preview scene from which the thumbnail is captured is hitting one or more of the unsupported features ???
in the static mesh editor there are settings for angle from where to view the static mesh and settings. try looking there if it happens for static meshes. for materials maybe see if the lighting setting is set to lit in the viewport of the material editor.
PiezPiedPy
(PiezPiedPy)
November 2, 2020, 8:52pm
5
I had the same problem but when I changed the Project setting :
Engine->Rendering Overrides->Force all skinned meshes to recompute tangents = True
the icons brightened up.