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  • Published 7 May 2024

Add `Material Preview` option to `Material Output` Node

I have quite some materials that depend directly on object data (mostly in volumes), and then do not render intelligibly in the material previews, which makes them hard to sort/find.

Given that we already have a node Material Output , giving us the option to define different materials for different rendering outputs, I would love it if this had the option to make a separate material for Material Preview . I could then, for example, make a similar-colored surface shader in preview to keep track of my colored volume shaders that render badly in the preview.

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Oane-Gros
7 May 2024

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Lauloque

Material preview is powered by Eevee, have you tried setting the material output to Eevee as a preview feature?

EDIT: tested, it works:

demo pic