By medmonds
#375587
I'm trying to render my first view of a large existing Revit 2014 project and have been getting error after error related to missing bitmaps with extremely strange names. (" ð~¯ôþ")
My model has numerous furniture families and a few light families from various manufacturers, likely with materials applied for which I dont have the supporting Bitmaps.

Question 1: Shouldn't maxwell just ignore the missing bitmaps
Question 2: Is this a bug? I cannot image the filename of a missing bitmap is " ð~¯ôþ" as reported by MXCL when the render fails.


DEBUG: - Preprocessing data.
DEBUG: - Preprocessing scene modifiers.
DEBUG: - Loading geometry extensions.
DEBUG: - Preprocessing MXS references.
DEBUG: - Pretessellating meshes with displacement.
DEBUG: - Initializing data.
DEBUG: - Preprocessing geometry.
[18/December/2013 11:03:40] The following objects do not have a material applied and will use the default one instead:
[18/December/2013 11:03:40] Surface
[18/December/2013 11:03:40] Surface1
[18/December/2013 11:03:40] Surface2
[18/December/2013 11:03:40] Surface3
[18/December/2013 11:03:40] Surface4
[18/December/2013 11:03:40] 10 28 00_PT & Trash-Recessed_sDC
[18/December/2013 11:03:40] 10 28 00_PT & Trash-Recessed_sDC1
[18/December/2013 11:03:40] 10 28 00_PT & Trash-Recessed_sDC2
[18/December/2013 11:03:40] 10 28 00_PT & Trash-Recessed_sDC3
[18/December/2013 11:03:40] 10 28 00_PT & Trash-Recessed_sDC4
[18/December/2013 11:03:40] 10 28 00_PT & Trash-Recessed_sDC5
DEBUG: - Preprocessing materials.
ERROR: - Bitmap File not found ( ð~¯ôþ ) in reflectance in bsdf of Material "Door - Panel"
ERROR: - Data preprocess failed. Render cannot continue
[18/December/2013 11:03:41] Ending render process..

ERROR: - Render Failed
Will there be a Maxwell Render 6 ?

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