Material Editor Viewport Issues

Hi,

first of all: I am a total UE4 beginner! I followed a few tutorials from the UE page and I was about to experiment with the material editor. But I can’t really see anything in the Material Editor Viewport. (picture example) I checked all the viewport settings, it is on “lit”. I know, it is a noob problem and I am probably one click away from the solution, but I can’t find it! Thanks in advance for any help! :slight_smile:

Did you accidentally move the light source? Hold L and drag the mouse around in the viewport.

Thanks for the quick answer, but that didn’t solve the problem. If I click “L” a white arrow appears, which indicates the light direction, but it has no impact on the scene

Yes, I have, strange, isn’t it?

Yes, it is with all the materials

is it the same with all the other materials?

Yes, no idea, somehow you’ve got a sunset there… :-/

also, do you have auto exposure enabled? (tick lit => auto exposure)

I’ve got it. You accidentally tweaked the preview scene settings:

if you don’t see the preview tab, use window → preview scene settings.

Just put everything back to default. I suspect you tweaked the skylight, it should be 1.

Yes, you’ve got it! That was the problem!

It seems I messed up twice: First I unintentionally tweaked the skylight setting and I somehow managed to close the "Preview Tab in addition, so I even didn’t gave myself the chance to figure it out on my own.
I really appreciate your help! Thanks to everybody how tried to solve that problem!

Noob out.