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Hi,


I've recently upgraded to v2.7, opened some old scenes, hit render and maxwell comes up with missing bitmap errors. Some bitmaps display Chinese looking font in the error.
Is there a way to turn off missing bitmaps ? so it will still render ? At least this way I can see which materials are causing problems and adjust them and not worry about anything else that is not visible in the shot.

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Are these scenes created with the 1.x plug-in? Could you send me one of them, please? I don't need the textures, just the scene, to see why it gets the paths wrong.

I don't think there's a way to make Maxwell render even if it can't find the textures.

Mihnea Balta wrote:Are these scenes created with the 1.x plug-in? Could you send me one of them, please? I don't need the textures, just the scene, to see why it gets the paths wrong.

I don't think there's a way to make Maxwell render even if it can't find the textures.

I'll see if I have a backup of a the scene, since I just converted the materials to 2.7.

Yes it is possible it was created with v1.x.

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Also why does Maxwell attached itself to all cameras ? even if they are not maxwell cameras ? Maxwells UI parameters are at the bottom of every camera.

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There are no Maxwell cameras. We add our parameters to all Max cameras, so you can use them with Maxwell.

Mihnea Balta wrote:There are no Maxwell cameras. We add our parameters to all Max cameras, so you can use them with Maxwell.

Okay just makes the interface messing when your using a different renderer to Maxwell.
I'm using Thea and I have Maxwell parameters on the camera, doesn't make any sense. If it was a standard 3dsmax camera then fine or if Maxwell was selected as the renderer.

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You can still render with Maxwell from that camera, and if you do, Maxwell has to read the parameters from somewhere. We can't know it's a camera type created by another renderer plug-in, and even if we did, we can't assume nobody is ever going to try to render with Maxwell from it.

Actually, I don't really understand why other renderers register their own camera types. A renderer should be able to use any camera from Max, not just its own type. The ability to make plug-in cameras was added in Max so that developers can customize what the camera does in Scanline (and in a very limited way).

Well I guess we disagree, but you must think its strange to have Maxwell settings on another renders camera ?

We don't disagree. It's weird, but I explained that we don't know when a camera is added by another renderer, and why we need to have the parameters there even if we knew that. I also think Thea shouldn't have its own camera type, but that's a different discussion.

Hi Mihnea,

Do you have an email address I can send a link too with the offending file ?

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Please send it to mihnea.balta@gmail.com.

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