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Been away from Maya/Maxwell for a couple of months, but I just upgraded to 2.0.39 (MacOSX) Plug-In and I'm getting this "Open MXS File Error" when I try to render. The console is telling me:ERROR - MXS file is invalid. I've gone in to make sure everything is assigned at least the Maxwell default shader. Any ideas?

You have the latest maxwell version available? Because I think the problem is caused by the fact that maxwell was compiled with a newer version of the SDK and the mxs file the Maya plugin generates isn't compatible with it.

Using 2.0.3.0. Isn't that the latest?

Same problem here. I can export the scene to MXS an open in Studio but can't render out of studio .

MESSAGE ERROR: Check console. Error in scene file in creating phase...!

Please help.

Thanks,

Export scene via maya 2008 x64 and maya 2011 x64 and open in MAXWELL STUDIO : Same problem /

The scene cannot be saved again or used/expot to render engine-----------------> ERROR below


Scene loaded succesfully!
Number of Objects: 104
Number of Triangles: 214545
Number of Materials: 6
Number of Cameras: 1
Error saving scene: object.setTriangleMaterial : Invalid triangle index
Error saving scene: writeMXS : Errors detected in scene creation phase. MXS will not be created.

The first problem indicates an old version of Maxwell, as Bogdan said. lghtstrm, are you sure the Maxwell instance which starts when you hit render is actually 2.0.3? Does it say so in the console?. There might be a problem with the plug-in finding an older version of Maxwell that's still lying around. If it does say 2.0.3, can you tell me the size of your maxwell.app file, and send me a sample MXS file which is refused by Maxwell?

voxelpictures: the problem in your case is different. Maxwell loads the file, but it finds invalid data in it. It's probably caused by per-face material assignment triggering a bug in the Maxwell SDK. Could you send me this scene so I can debug it?

Dear Mihnea,

Can you give me your email so that i can send you the scene. its a 17mb file, is that ok for you?
Or do you have an ftp solution?

Thanks in advance,

Roshan Martin
info@voxelpictures.com

mihnea.balta@gmail.com or bogdan.coroi@gmail.com

I am getting the Open MXS File Error " mxs#.tmp cannot be read " when trying to render using maya maxwell plugin

the Maxwell version I have is 2.0 the maxwell maya plugin version is 2.1.2

Will installing v2.1 of Maxwell Render solve my problem?

Hello...please update to latest versions of plugin + Studio and check if you got double materials assigned to some polygons in Maya before exporting to studio!!

That also cause the same problem to me a fews weeks back.

Thanks,