How do I load a product with no textures or remove them...

Kharma

I know this is silly but I do not know how to remove all the textures from a product after I load it, or how do I load it without textures in the first place? I know you can use the drop down and change the view to wiremesh or texture shaded etc. but what I want to do is load something just the clay grey and then retexture it with iray shaders.   I am sure someone has asked this same question before but searching the forums for an answer to anything is almost impossible so I thought I'd ask here in case any new people needed the same help.

mjc1016

Load a primitive...sphere works fine.  Then select it in both the scene and surfaces panes.  Then go to File > Save As > Shader Preset....select somewhere easy to find, like the 'root' of the Shader Presets folder.

Then load your model and select all the surfaces you want 'blanked out' and apply that preset you just saved.

The reason for a Shader Preset vs a Material Preset is that the materials don't matter with the shader preset.  They can be anything and will be reset to that blank grey default shader. 

Kharma

Awesome thank you very much..I felt like such a dummy when I couldn't figure it out

MelanieL

I also added my "clay grey" shader preset as a Custom Action (along with one which makes a surface transparent) so they are always easy to find and apply to anything.

nonesuch00

This is a time saver.