Slate Material Editor – “Get Material from Selected” extremely slow

[Frank Puechner]

Hey everyone,

since today I am experiencing a severe performance issue in 3ds Max version 2024 and Corona version: 12 Update 2 (Hotfix 1)  :
The “Get Material from Selected” function in the Slate Material Editor takes over a minute to respond. Until yesterday, this function worked instantly without any delay.

Reproducibility / tests performed so far:

Restarted 3ds Max and Windows → no improvement

Created a new empty scene, merged geometry, assigned a simple standard material to all objects → issue persists

Scene is relatively simple, no unusually complex setup

No system or project changes made between yesterday and today

Question:
Is this a known issue? Are there recommended solutions ?

Thank you in advance for your support.

Kind regards,

Frank

[arqrenderz]

I got this bug some time ago, for me it was only when using the hotkey, if i use the eyedropper on sme it went fine.
Cant recall if just deleting the ENU folder or a max reinstall solved the problem.

[Frank Puechner]

Hey Arqrenderz,

many thanks for your assistance and advice –
this is very helpful and much appreciated.