Getting Texture/Material Previews on the Asset Browser?

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Hello,

I’ve been getting back into Blender 3D from a pretty long hiatus and upon my return, I’m linking all my models into Blender’s included Asset Browser.

Upon linking a few of my models in, I noticed on the preview some of them are being previewed with a texture added and some are not. Since all my models have textures on them, I was wondering how I can make the preview display the textures.

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As you can see, the Dandelion model has a texture but the Anthurium Botany and Celandine don’t. How do I fix this?

Thank you in advance!

  • Joey
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Looks like it uses the workbench render so you have to adjust the viewport settings for the material.

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https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/animation/armatures/posing/editing/pose_library.html#controlling-the-look-of-preview-images

https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/289937/how-to-quickly-render-a-custom-asset-browser-prop-preview

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Thank you!

I just found out what it was just now. You have to have the main texture selected in the node editor to get that texture to show up

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Glad you figured it out.

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Update: for anyone struggling with this, you have to just change Viewport Display to Textured from the Object Properties shelf.

I wrote a simple python script to automatize this for all visible objects in the file:

import bpy
for obj in bpy.context.visible_objects:
obj.display_type = ‘TEXTURED’
bpy.ops.wm.save_as_mainfile(filepath=bpy.context.blend_data.filepath)

and I also wrote an Autohotkey script to run this script for all blend files in a given directory (and all of its subfolders). You can download it from here (requires Windows and Autohotkey v1 installed):

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