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I have had a new issue crop up in V3 that I never had before re: Google site topography. Almost all my models begin with a Google site image import using the tool within Sketchup. Always worked seamlesssly with Maxwell until I switched to the new version. Now every model since I have had this issue. The image gets distorted rotated and de-saturated.

What I have recently discovered is that it works fine in fire within skp but is not working in Render? I thought maybe it had to do with the render engine I choose so I did tests in each... but doesn't matter which engine I choose.. its always messed up in render and always fine in Fire regardless of draft or production in either.

The only conclusion I can draw is that the renderer is finding a different image than expected at the location where you are rendering it. Note that in the two output images labeled _Render_, the problem with the background is not that it is distorted, rotated or washed out; rather it depicts entirely different imagery than any texture contained in the SKP (e.g. look at the building, and the traffic intersection).

Right... it is a completely different image, I had not noticed that. Crazy.

But if you look in the textures folder created when I did the pack and go... the textures all look correct? I remade that model twice wondering so I know there was not an old image in it that confused it.

I am going to go back and look at old models to see if they have that same texture. I can not imagine where it is coming from if it is not in the model which is creating the pack and go?

I would render the MXS in Maxwell Render and stop it after it started rendering, then would look in the console to see where it's finding the image in question.

Hah.. great suggestion. That is where it is coming from.... However I can not figure out why? At least now I can figure a workaround, but am curious why it would be pulling from this rather than the one in the pack and go texture folder?

C:\Users\dsmythe\Documents\Maxwell\SketchUp\temp\thumbs\Google Earth Snapshot1.jpg

I couldn't say without some investigation, but I'll check into it. That path is in the temp folder used for material previews and Maxwell FIRE.