[caryjames]

I have been lighting my scenes with .mxi gradient textures on emitter planes and every time I close a scene I have to jiggle with the mapping... here is how.

When I work on the file I set my gradients, say I want to use the same set up for a different object. I then reopen the file and import an object into my scene ( 4 rectangular emitters with gradients applied)

I will click on render view just to make sure that the gradients are aligned properly.

They will have changed in appearance but not in their mapping here is what I have to do

The map would be set to "Box" but with a different view than expected
I then toggle "Surface" with no change in the view
Then I re toggle "Box" and get my original desired map

Am I doing something wrong or have I just found a little glitch?

Thanks

[JDHill]

Hi Cary, is it possibly linked to this?



Try making sure that the textures for your mxi gradients have Channel numbers which match those of the corresponding mapping in Rhino - it should start to make sense then. Just for now though - there are some small changes coming in the next update which will make the plugin more tolerant of mis-matched 0-1 Channel numbers.

Let me know if that helps...

[caryjames]

Hi JD: I think that might have been the problem- I have my .mxi emitter set on channel 1 in Rhino and channel 0 in Maxwell. Thanks!!! Learn something new every day around here