Asset Thumbnails or Not

Question Materials and Textures

Just a quickie. I've saved two materials as assets. One, Speckled Ceramic,  generated itself a thumbnail. The other, Smooth Ceramic, didn't. Would you point me in the right direction. Thanks.2 at 11.16.26 AM.png

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  • Omar Domenech replied

    Hmmm I'm not sure, I've heard the asset browser is very finicky, does stuff like that for no reason all the time, even though you did nothing wrong. Perhaps the others know. Lets wait for them.

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  • Dwayne Savage(dillenbata3) replied

    Just have to wait. Depending on your machine specs and whatever else you are doing in blender it can take awhile. Blender sets it to a low priority. So even on high-end machines it can take as long as 3 minutes. Also it helps to set your GPU up in preferences->system. You can sometimes speed it up by selecting the asset in the asset browser and on the n-panel click the recreate thumbnail icon. Sorry I don't remember what it looks like off the top of my head. If you go to the preview panel if the material tab in the properties editor and wait until that generates before marking a material as an asset it takes less time to generate the thumbnail. 

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  • Roger Corbett(Dodge) replied

    Unmarking, saving, quitting, opening and then remarking did the trick. At least I think that was the order.  

    Now I better spend some time setting up my library in preparation for some new assets. 

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