[wfstecko]

Hi All,

First off I should say I'm very new to Maxwell, as I just bought it during the recent promo. I'm also fairly new to C4D and Realflow too.

I was rendering a 300 frame animation created using C4D and Realflow. It rendered the first 86 frames without a problem but then my computer crashed (my fault) and I had to do a hard reboot. I tried to resume my render by specifying frames 87 to 300, first in the C4D render settings and then in the Maxwell plugin for C4D. No matter what I do it renders from the beginning of the animation instead of starting at frame 87. I'm wondering if I missed a step or if it's a bug.

I'm running the newest version of Maxwell and C4D 11.5 on a Mac OSX 10.6.4, 8 core, 12 GB RAM. Not rendering over the network.

So now I'm rendering again from scratch, but I'm hoping someone might have a suggestion on how to resume rendering an animation in case this happens again.

Thanks,

Walter

[JDHill]

I am not seeing a problem with setting Scene Object > Animation > Render from/to to a range that begins in the middle of an animation, so if you can provide more details, I'll try to duplicate it.

On the question of rendering a particular range of frames which have already been exported, see the Frames parameter in Maxwell Render, in the Render Options panel -- given 300 numbered MXS files, entering 87-300 there should set Maxwell rendering the animation, starting at frame 87.

[wfstecko]

Hi,

Since my last post I noticed a new version of the MW plugin for C4D, so I downloaded and installed it.

I tried it again with a sample scene of 90 frames with just a cube moving across the screen. I set the C4D render settings to output frames 0-45 and set the MW plugin to use the Cinema settings. Again it output all 90 .mxs files and began the render. Then I tried it again, this time specifying the frame range within the plugin, and it worked properly.

I tried your suggestion of selecting a range of exported .mxs files within Maxwell's render options panel and it worked perfectly.

Thank you for your help!

Walter