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Hi all,

Is there a plug-in update for maya 2011.5 as the previous plug-ins aren't showing up?

Cheers,

Steve

Do you mean the service pack they've released yesterday? I haven't tried it yet, but did you try reinstalling the Maxwell plug-in?

yep, 'Subscription Advantage Pack for Autodesk Maya 2011 '

I've re-installed but the plug-in doesn't appear in the plug-in manager list.

On launching the new copy of maya I said to use old previous prefs which copied over some of shelfs etc. so this may be the issue.

Incidentally, the new version of maya is certainly a lot snappier that the previous version.

Cheers,

Steve

Did you install it to a different directory, keeping the original 2011 as well? Check that the correct path is listed in the "Maya 2011" fields of the Maxwell plug-in installer.

This might be of interest. If I were you, I'd just install SP1 - it uses the same folder names.

http://polygonspixelsandpaint.tumblr.co ... 1213714814

cheers for the link but I can't see any files that are in 2011 that aren't in the 2011.5 folder?

The maxwell shelf is there but where is the plugin stored?

cgbeige wrote:This might be of interest. If I were you, I'd just install SP1 - it uses the same folder names.

http://polygonspixelsandpaint.tumblr.co ... 1213714814

Hi,
thanks for the link. After doing what the guy in the link had done I finally see my Maxwell plug-in in Maya 2011.5 and I can assign Maxwell materials to my stuff but some essential things don´t work anymore: The buttons for "library" and "gallery" in the Attribute Editor don´t work anymore and when I try to render with Maxwell the Maya render window opens but the subsequent Maxwell render window doesn´t open or render anything...

Strange things happening here...

Anybody here who managed to run Maxwell Render in Maxa 2011.5???

Thanks
Marco

Hi,

so actually nobody using Maya 2011.5 with Maxwellrender?

thanks for your help in advance
Marco

marcotronic wrote:Hi,

so actually nobody using Maya 2011.5 with Maxwellrender?

thanks for your help in advance
Marco

I installed it. After playing around with the things added to it, none of the differences were applicable to our workflow. We just rolled back to 2011 SP1 to avoid the headache.

Same here : I installed SP1, because the subscription pack doesn't contain anything of interest for me, and is not worth the hassle.

Thanks, mates. Gonna do that, too.
Marco

all works well with maxwell in win7 x64 and maya 2011.5 .. renders fine.. library comes up, mawell render window launches and renders ok..
I of coarse uninstalled my maya2011 before installing 2011.5 and installed 2011.5 INTO my 2011 Folder.. its stupid that autodesk default goes to 2011.5 folder.. why would i waste HD space and have 2 mayas and only use one?!?!

so during the maya 2011.5 installation options somewhere in there you can choose to install to custom folder.. so i installed to 2011 NOT 2011.5..
-luke

Hi,
now I deleted all Maya versions I had on my system and re-installed Maya 2001 SP1. I also un- and re-installed Maxwell and the Maya plugin again. (I actually did this whole procedure a couple of times) I also deleted every file containing maya and/or maxwell in its filename from my harddisk but I cannot for the life of me get Maxwell working with Maya 2011 SP1 on the Mac. It´s the same problem I mentioned above. Maya can load the Maxwell bundle but when I render the Maya preview render window opens but Maxwell doesn´t start. Nothing.

So is there anybody who is running Maya 2001 SP1 on the Mac(!) with the current Maxwell 2 plugin?

Thanks a lot for your help. I have no idea how to get Maxwell running with Maya 2011 again...

Marco

Does it say anything in the script editor when you try to render? Did you start Maxwell or Studio after reinstalling them?

Mihnea Balta wrote:Does it say anything in the script editor when you try to render? Did you start Maxwell or Studio after reinstalling them?

Hi Minhea,
woot!!! Thanks a ton!!! That did the trick! I haven´t started Maxwell standalone before trying to load it from Maya and then it worked like charm! The strange thing is that this behaviour is totally new. I don´t remember starting Maxwell ever before with previous installations but once I did now it worked also from Maya.

You really made me happy!

Marco