[EADC]

Hi,

Using z-clip for the first time now, how or what do the values of z-clip relate to? From camera or target or..? Can the planes be made visible in some way?

Thanks,

Eric.

[EADC]

Ok, figured it out already. From camera pov, values in meters so divide by 1000, if you work in mm like i do.

[JDHill]

Also note that there are commands in the plugin's Camera toolbar for setting z-clip interactively, by picking points in the viewport.

[EADC]

Hi JD;

have been able to make one render: Now i get the following message;

Maxwell: warning: Invalid zNear/zFar planes (method: camera.setCutPlanes) (caller=Maxwell.Scenes.error_callback)

Any idea what causes this? Redoing the interactive plane placement does not resolve the issue.

Thanks.

[JDHill]

No, I couldn't say what would cause that. What scale are you modeling at, how far away is the camera, and what are the z-clip values?

[EADC]

modelling in 1:1 in mm, camera 200000 mm away, z-clip 200 and 210. Took a file one step back, re-entered the same values and all is well again. Thinking back, i moved the camera after entering the z-clip values. As i am rendering a longitudinal section of a train, the idea was to render carriage by carriage from a big distance to compensate the perspective distortion, moving the camera each time. Perhaps i better use camera shift instead of moving the camera.

[JDHill]

I still don't seem able to reproduce it using those values (@ 1000mm lens), so let me know if you see it happen again.

[EADC]

Ok.