Ive put up for a a long time how you can change from sphere to cube etc. How though, do you change the defaults on the right, some terrain are terrain but others have defaulted to sphere. How do i go about changing these to the ones i want?

When you are in the material and texture editors. On the bottom righthand corner of the preview window, click the small triangle. From the menu list choose "view actual selection", I believe you cna only view it as a sphere or you acyual selected object your working on. You can also choose to view it close up or normal. I hope this helped. kaom

Actually its the preset windows to the left in the 6x5 matrix that im trying to change. A few as you import them are invisible but whatever you pick in upper left is the shape they become pernamently. What i want to know is how to change the ones in the matrix after the fact. tks though.

heres a example: notice the stone textures that ive imported are a mess of random spheres, plains and cubes etc. How can you change each of these. Im busy right now reordering the hundreds of sky presets and probly thousand + material and would like to fix this before backing up the whole directory for future installs.

If your trying to make new presets, whatever you have chosen in the preview window will be the shape when you click 'add' to make it. you can choose any of the primatives to view, it will even be the same angle as what your seeing in the preview window. I hope this is what you needed to know. kaom

If I understand your question, you want to change the way it's shown in the already-saved view on the right. As far as I know, the only way to do that is to apply it to an object, go back into the mat library and save it with the new view, and then delete the old one. Paininnabutt, but I think that's the only way to change the one on the right, as that image is saved with the mat, obj, sky or whatever at the time it's added to the library. I've had the same thing happen, and now when I add something to a library, I usually try to fix the preview thumbnail right off so I won't have the problem.

yes appears so, started last night exporting mats of about 8 or 12 then bringing them back in at bottom, followed by adding them individually. Probly got half of my 1500 or so collection done last night. Id swear my dreams were based in a preset window last night.

I think there is a way to change the existing thumbnail. I think Steve Lareau figured it out but I can't find the message anywhere. Something about setting the preview to the shape you want and then a combination of keys while clicking on a thumbnail and it will change. No guarantees but worth experimenting with! Spit

For anyone that has this question in the future, finally found the keystroke command for resetting your preset picture: have the shape you want it picked, click on texture in the windows on the right. Let it render then click cntl-shift at the same time. Your Preview now changed. Shame ive done about 1000 textures the hard way before finding this. It wont help you though if you moving to category folders, that still manual.