Solid shading mode will not display textures, try texture, material or render mode.
– Sep 17 '16 at 19:04
hmmm it also now doing the same thing for the "materials" properties panel for some objects
– IronsSep 17 '16 at 19:06
after only making different objects visible and invisible (clicking around on the eye icons) the materials and texture controls are now visible for all objects. I am truly lost on this one.
– IronsSep 17 '16 at 19:10
it happened again! added a second material. couldn't see the texture controls when that new material was selected but could for the first. Then I walked a way and when I came back I could see texture controls. any ideas out there?
– IronsSep 17 '16 at 19:32
Can you show what do you mean by "texture controls" ? Previewing textures on the model depends on render engine. See http://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/5283/how-to-show-textures-in-the-3d-view-editor
– Mr ZakSep 17 '16 at 20:17
figured it out. all I had to do was scroll up on the textures panel. ~WhOOpS~
– IronsSep 17 '16 at 20:17