[stir]

As the title says
Error: Invalid Origin base value (in method object.setBaseAndPivot)

happens when i click render in 3ds max and its suppose to write the temp mxs file for the maxwell render to load and render.

This one is new to me.
Any one got this before and might know whats causing this?

Basic info:
3ds max 2015 sp3
maxwell render 3.2.0.0
Plugin : 3.2.4

Cheers
-Mats

[Mihnea Balta]

That sounds like one of the objects in the scene has an invalid position (it's at infinity, or its position somehow got corrupted and contains not-a-number values). Can you send me the scene which triggers this error message?

[stir]

Seems like you were right man.
I went through the scene, looking for what you said.

Because Maxwell goes crazy when we scale objects to 0 we scale them to 0.01 Usually that's not a problem.
But the thing in this scene was that we first animated the scale of an object to 0.01 then we animated the parent scale also to 0.01 giving the child a silly low number that probably confused Maxwell.

In this scene the solution was simply just remove the scale animation on the child object. Because it was no point having it when the parent was animated anyway.
but definitely something to be aware of!
Learn something everyday!

Thanks for the quick reply Mihnea!


-Mats