[stefan_kaplan]

Here's a small piece of a larger model that renders fine in FIRE but makes Maxwell crash after a few seconds of computing.
I guess it has to do with the emitter being turned off (set to 0w)...?
This small model also triggers a question/request for setting a custom focal distance in isometric renders. When rendering this model (in FIRE), it turns out blurry.
In theory I should be able to sharpen the image by turning up the f-stop to an extreme value... Or I could turn off the isometric view and instead change my pespectives FOV to "1" (smallest angle) - and then use the Focal Distance-feature. But I would much rather be able to choose a focal point in the Iso-mode.
Btw. I still long for the option to set the f-stop-value to less than "1", OR to scale down the model at render-start, to obtain lower Depth of Field like in these photos
/Stefan

[JDHill]

Thanks for the file -- I'm not able to observe any crash yet, so if you have any more details, that would be good. I notice that it has color multilight enabled, perhaps that could be a factor. Aside from that, it was still useful, because I did see that it reproduces the problem of the camera not exporting correctly using the C++ exporter (it's because it is a parallel view, and would be fine if a Scene were added). Regarding setting focal point for parallel views, what you should do there is to enable Average+DOF auto-focus for your camera. It should theoretically be possible to allow you to pick a specific focal point, but that's trickier than it sounds, since the Maxwell camera is generated using a long-lens hack that is basically reverse-engineered using a target point and a view "height" from SketchUp. Regarding fStop < 1.0, while the plugin can only expose functionality which exists in the engine, the other idea of adding arbitrary export scale is possible, and has been on my list of things to do.

[stefan_kaplan]

Well, I can't reproduce the error now...
I've had quite a struggle with it though. I ended up removing the Emitter from the self-cutting component.
But now it works in the file I send you as well, which is great.
And thanks for the hint with the Auto Focus! It works like a charm.
What is the difference between Auto (Average) and Auto (Average + DOF)?
That things-to-do-list of yours is probably long and other features might be much more important. I'm just thinking loud here
/Stefan

[JDHill]

Average sets the focal point by sampling several points and averaging their distance. Average+DOF does the same, and then uses the near/far distances to adjust the fStop.