# No option for Enabling OSPRay

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/no-option-for-enabling-ospray/3517
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [February 6, 2020, 5:45am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/no-option-for-enabling-ospray/3517 "2020-02-06T05:45:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Abbas](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Abbas](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Abbas)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2020, 5:45am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/no-option-for-enabling-ospray/3517/1 "2020-02-06T05:45:37Z")

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Hi there,  
I was looking to apply some material textures to my .stl model and thought OSPRay might be the solution but Paraview 5.7 does not show any OSPRay heading. Screenshot attached.

 ![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/e/e1ff68917c7fbe848fb8b70742928b9feb479403.png)

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### Author: ![wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/8e8cbc/32.png) [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2020, 6:45am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/no-option-for-enabling-ospray/3517/2 "2020-02-06T06:45:35Z")

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This may sound really silly, but try scrolling down? When I just selected Ray Tracing, a whole section of the properties tab appeared below “shadows” .

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2020, 7:10am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/no-option-for-enabling-ospray/3517/3 "2020-02-06T07:10:52Z")

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It is in the advanced options. Click on the gear icon.