# Only black image shown in red/green/yellow view

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/only-black-image-shown-in-red-green-yellow-view/14267>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [October 27, 2020, 10:45am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/only-black-image-shown-in-red-green-yellow-view/14267 "2020-10-27T10:45:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![torquil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e79b87/32.png) [@torquil](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/torquil)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 10:45am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/only-black-image-shown-in-red-green-yellow-view/14267/1 "2020-10-27T10:45:17Z")

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Hi!

When importing DICOM files to the newest 3d Slicer from today on Linux, the red, green and yellow views remain black no matter what I do. I did not have this problem in the earlier 3D Slicer I was using, which was from september 16. When I select to show the red/green/yellow slices inside the 3D view, they show up there fine, so it is not a case of wrong viewing area relative to the physical volume. Is this a known problem with a solution, or do I have to “bisect” among the recent Slicer versions to pinpoint the problematic change?

As I mentioned, when embedding each slice view inside the 3d view, they show up there fine, with correct image pixels. It is only within the red/green/yellow views that the image is always completely black. I have not seen this problem before among the different 3D Slicer versions I have used.

I’m using 3D Slicer 4.13.0-2020-10-25 r29444 / 228f187.

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**Author:** ![torquil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e79b87/32.png) [@torquil](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/torquil)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 12:01pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/only-black-image-shown-in-red-green-yellow-view/14267/2 "2020-10-27T12:01:41Z")

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I tried some different versions of 3D Slicer:

r29407: only black slices in the red/green/yellow views  
r29402: everything works fine

So the problem appeared somewhere between those two versions.

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**Author:** ![ngillingham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f475e1/32.png) [@ngillingham](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/ngillingham)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 8:07pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/only-black-image-shown-in-red-green-yellow-view/14267/3 "2020-10-27T20:07:18Z")

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I’m just commenting to say that I’m having the exact same issue (works fine in the stable version but black screen in the nightly release) and I hope a forthcoming update can resolve this issue!

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**Author:** ![lassoan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lassoan/32/13_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 8:08pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/only-black-image-shown-in-red-green-yellow-view/14267/4 "2020-10-27T20:08:31Z")

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I just see that the report is for Slicer-4.13. We are still working on making this latest preview release work with latest VTK9 version. We think we are close but it may take a few more days. You can monitor the status here: [https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5220](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5220)

Until it gets fixed, you can use the latest stable release.

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**Author:** ![ngillingham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f475e1/32.png) [@ngillingham](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/ngillingham)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 8:09pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/only-black-image-shown-in-red-green-yellow-view/14267/5 "2020-10-27T20:09:51Z")

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2015 MacBook Pro for me (not to hijack the original post)