[Polyxo]

Hi all,

I experience an annoying bug on the environment page. I chose, skydome or physical sky and chose a location and time.Everything looks fine at first.
When closing the window, Maxwell fills in random numbers into all colomns.
Then the time is 192, the date looks more like a formula. I get loads of errors: Please enter a number! This allthough I definedly used dots and no commas to enter values. When I close the window and reopen the environment page - the entered values are all gone, the city is custom.
Numbers in the numeric fields have sometimes 6 digits and random spaces
Purging these values and filling in proper values - all no avail
No way to get Maxwell render. Copied all geometry in a blank file, scene scale 1m, system language german, keyboard scheme as well.
WinXPHome sp2.

The attached bitmaps hows an error, because there are spaces or numbers in front of the 10. Also note, that the day is 192.
[img][URL=http://www.imageshack.us][img]http://img183.echo.cx/img183/9317/environment4jp.gif[/img]


Can anybody help?

Thanks! Holger

[iker]

This happens because you have opened an old scene, isn't it?
You just have to change manually the parameters:

For the date press "Actual date time"
Turbidity: 3
Ozone:0.35
Water:2
(default settings)

...and maybe you have to change also the Burnt to 0.8, the Monitor Gamma to 2.2 (all default settings) , and the Camera values (F/Stop & Shutter) , change every long number you have ( for example 1.3444450 -e)

[Polyxo]

Hi Iker,

what exactly do you mean with °old file°?
I copied all geometrie into a new file. No Maxwell Materials in the scene. The problem is, that Maxwell obviosly doesn't accept any of the values I type in.
I'll give it another go later!

Thanks Holger

[Thomas An.]

Holger,

This is because the objects or the file is still contaminated with old Rhinoll data.

Also, when you copy objects from one file to another then the settings of the old file transfer to the new file as well. See (old) bug issue A10 http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3590.

So... if you copied objects from a file having old Rhinoll settings, then those old settings would transfer too and they are not compatible with the new Rhinoll causing them to become random numbers such as (-2.343e-13)

Use the "-saveas" and purgePluginData and then go in all the options (not just the environment tab) and replace the fields with good numbers.
(especially make sure you check the tonesmapping fields because if they become zero then your render will be black)

[Polyxo]

Hmmm - there's not much plugin data in the file - not single material, only some render-settings. I saved out as geometry only - all layers are reduced to one, the "default"-Layer. My custom Camera-settings survived the file-shrink however. My problem is persistant - I can purge the rubbish out of the numeric fields and fill in reasonable values. But as soon as I hit ok, I'll get an error again "Bitte geben Sie eine Zahl ein" - whatever. (get some of those error-texts German, some in English)

What am I overlooking?

Thanks, Holger

[Thomas An.]

Hmmm - there's not much plugin data in the file - not single material, only some render-settings. I saved out as geometry only - all layers are reduced to one, the "default"-Layer. My custom Camera-settings survived the file-shrink however. My problem is persistant - I can purge the rubbish out of the numeric fields and fill in reasonable values. But as soon as I hit ok, I'll get an error again "Bitte geben Sie eine Zahl ein" - whatever. (get some of those error-texts German, some in English)

What am I overlooking?

Thanks, Holger

Savesmall does not purge all plugin data.
(On the other hand "save "geometry only" makes you loose all layer info).
Use the command line "-saveas" (include the "-") and choose "purgeplugindata".

Here is another workaround.
1. open a new (completely empty) file using a Rhino templete that you don't normally use
2. draw a sphere, copy the sphere to clipboard and close
3. Open your problematic file and paste the sphere (and then delete it)

Now your settings should be replaced with the clean ones from the sphere file.

-

[Polyxo]

Yeah, that t finally worked out! I didnt know about the hidden additonal °save as° options! But thas one didn't help, my custom camera-setting was still there....

It was the nifty sphere trick.

Great help, thanks Thomas!


Holger