[pyapor]

I'm a first time user of Maxwell Render; I've recently installed it. When I try to render a scene in Maya the Render window pops up and immediately closes. Maxwell Render doesn't start up at all. Fire works fine, though. I've tried to do some stuff and see how it looks on Fire with good results but actually rendering scenes doesn't work at all.

[Mihnea Balta]

Are you on OSX? On OSX you have to manually start Maxwell or Studio once after installing for the first time, so that they can register themselves with the MXS files. The plug-in locates the Maxwell executable by checking what's registered with that file extension; if nothing is registered yet, hitting render in Maya doesn't do anything.

[pyapor]

Sorry for not specifying, I'm on OSX with Maya 2011. I manually started every application in the Maxwell folder and still to no avail Maxwell render won't pop up. I even tried manually opening Maxwell Render while running Maya and that doesn't work either. I have the most updated versions of both the renderer and the plugin.

[Mihnea Balta]

Can you check which application is set to open MXS files? If it's not maxwell.app or studio.app, try to manually associate the files and see if it starts working then.

[pyapor]

For some reason the MSX files were set to open with Corel Painter X. I can't really imagine what happened in the installing process that could make it do that... It's kind of weird. Nonetheless, so far so good. Thanks so much for your help, very quick response.