[fv]

I have exported a model to Studio with instances checked and found that when I do that much of the geometry if not all is no longer seperated by material. This makes it impossible to change materials in Studio.
Is this a bug or do I have some setting wrong.

Tx. Francois

PS
Since the current plugin is not working I am exporting all my work into Studio. It has actually speeded up my workflow a lot. I am now thinking that Studio is a blessing for those that render photorealisticly their SU work. I have like 500 Mb models in Studio, no way to do that in SU. I now carefully model my work in small SU files and import them seperatly in Studio. I then reimport those textured and editied mxs parts in the full model in Studio. It also makes previewing parts and making partial renders a lot easier. Once working like this I realise I will probably never render directly out of SU again.
I have posted this before but now with some more experience I see the huge advantage over other renderapp's you have with the Maxwell/Studio combination.

[fv]

I think my topic here is already covered by this one. I think its just a bug in the plugin. Basicly I can't export using instances....
http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... 07&t=33447

[brodie_geers]

FV, I'm in the same spot as you. I can't imagine trying to render an archviz scene from SU without using a studio to be able to workaround SU's polygon issues. That said, I'm still looking forward to JD's plugin.

As for your instancing issue, I don't have a solution but I can confirm that it's working the same on my end as well. Like you I have to do a lot of editing and changing in studio so I've just gotten used to not using instances.

-Brodie

[fv]

Actually, you can use instances but you have to import them seperatly. Like I did just recently with lavender flowers. I just imported the flowers seperatly so that I did not have to deal with getting them mixed up in other material groups. And actually it worked fine. Try it a bit more with simple examples and you will see it works out well enough.
Francois

[Richard]

Hey you guys are pushing the use of studio way too much, JD will never worry about getting the plugin nailed in this situation!

I have in the past been addicted to using studio though as I've been fairly busy rendering lots of small jobs lately realising the direct export can be a godsent!! I just hope still JD can get the xref option nailed with the new plugin so low poly proxies can be used!

I hear Thea plugin will have this option on the next version of the plugin, which doesn't help us much here! BTW checked out Thea studio and it really lacks a MR studio friendly workflow..