You can visualize the animation of animated shaders, for example, UVRotator (Hw Shader Nodes
Textures
UV Rotator) in the ShaderFX editor.
- Click the Render Swatch icon
so that either the small or larger render swatch is displayed.
- Choose Settings menu
Play Animated Shaders to visualize the animation for the animated shader and its downstream nodes.
Tip: You can also click

(Play) in the
3ds Max playback controls to visualize the animation in viewports.