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I know it will probably be fixed soon, but:
1) maya plugin error: // Error: line 1: Cannot find procedure "maxwellConnectCameraControls". means I have 0 control over the camera...
2) maya plugin does not support procedurals.
3) as I mentioned before, maxwell 3 runs only as administrator so workflow is compromised.
4) scatter is great but it accepts only simple mesh. tried a simple plant - crash. and cannot connect mxs
5) GPU preview needs a strong card. my quadro is not strong enough as it will not allow me to enjoy lens effects in real time on a med-res. 1500X1000.
edit: 6) I'm used to having maxwell window at my right monitor. for some reason v.3 insists to stay on the left one.. ?
another edit: 7) no presets for grass, volumetrics - why? it's so frustrating trying to get that "sun rays" to my test scene... with the laconic explanation about all sort of factors ...
other than that it sure looks great !

Thanks for the feedback Choo-chee,

choo-chee wrote:I know it will probably be fixed soon, but:
1) maya plugin error: // Error: line 1: Cannot find procedure "maxwellConnectCameraControls". means I have 0 control over the camera...
2) maya plugin does not support procedurals.
3) as I mentioned before, maxwell 3 runs only as administrator so workflow is compromised.
4) scatter is great but it accepts only simple mesh. tried a simple plant - crash. and cannot connect mxs
5) GPU preview needs a strong card. my quadro is not strong enough as it will not allow me to enjoy lens effects in real time on a med-res. 1500X1000.
edit: 6) I'm used to having maxwell window at my right monitor. for some reason v.3 insists to stay on the left one.. ?
other than that it sure looks great !

choo-chee wrote:I know it will probably be fixed soon, but:
1) maya plugin error: // Error: line 1: Cannot find procedure "maxwellConnectCameraControls". means I have 0 control over the camera...

We will look into that, it seems an installation issue. We support Maya procedurals through MXED and Maya native procedurals in future updates.

choo-chee wrote: 3) as I mentioned before, maxwell 3 runs only as administrator so workflow is compromised.

You just need admin permissions during the installation, but not during the normal usage. Could you point me to a place where it has been reported=

choo-chee wrote: 4) scatter is great but it accepts only simple mesh. tried a simple plant - crash. and cannot connect mxs

If you upload an scene we can take a look.

choo-chee wrote: 5) GPU preview needs a strong card. my quadro is not strong enough as it will not allow me to enjoy lens effects in real time on a med-res. 1500X1000.

I am afraid we cannot do too much here, but we will see if we can optimize it.

choo-chee wrote: 6) I'm used to having maxwell window at my right monitor. for some reason v.3 insists to stay on the left one.. ?

Interesting, we will try to reproduce it. So you cannot actually move the app to the other windo? that is so weird. Are you talking about Maxwell or Studio?

Thanks,

Juan

thanx for the quick response.
about 3 - I did install as administrator but it keeps the problem. anyway I've checked on the "run as administrator" in the shortcut properties so that's fixed for now, I guess.
about 4 - only FIRE crashes maya, here is the sample scene :
http://www.jumbomail.co.il/Downloads.as ... 547330383D
about 5 - I guess I'll get a new PC.
6 - I drag the window to the right monitor. close it (also with ctrl+ close button). re-open: and it's at the left monitor ...
7 - hope you noticed the edit again ...

choo-chee wrote:I know it will probably be fixed soon, but:
1) maya plugin error: // Error: line 1: Cannot find procedure "maxwellConnectCameraControls". means I have 0 control over the camera...

Are you on Maya 2012? Do you see any other errors in the script editor before the one with "cannot find procedure"?

yes it's 2012 and here is the full camera string from the editor:
camera -centerOfInterest 5 -focalLength 35 -lensSqueezeRatio 1 -cameraScale 1 -horizontalFilmAperture 1.41732 -horizontalFilmOffset 0 -verticalFilmAperture 0.94488 -verticalFilmOffset 0 -filmFit Fill -overscan 1 -motionBlur 0 -shutterAngle 144 -nearClipPlane 0.1 -farClipPlane 10000 -orthographic 0 -orthographicWidth 30 -panZoomEnabled 0 -horizontalPan 0 -verticalPan 0 -zoom 1; objectMoveCommand; cameraMakeNode 1 "";
// camera1 //
// Error: maxwellCustomEnumReplace maxwellDiaphragmTypeCheck ($nodeName + "mxLensType");
//
// Error: "C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2012/scripts/others/maxwellBuildCameraControls.mel" line 249.79: Wrong number of arguments on call to maxwellCustomEnumReplace. //

Ok, I found the bug with the camera attributes and it's going to be fixed in the next release.

The FIRE crash with the scatter modifier is inside the engine so I can't fix it from the plug-in side, but we'll look into that as well.

I'm impressed, that was quick !
is it something simple that can be edited manually by the end user ?

There are several edits, but you can download a patched script file from here. Place it in the scripts/others subdirectory of your Maya install folder.

thanx I'm gonna try it.
Now I know I come with a lot of requests and bug reports but it's probably just because I'm meticulous ...
My studio was a beta tester for years, of another rendering engine ...

another issue ...
I can't understand how to use all the volumetrics options as described in the documentation, it's like there's only 1 option in maya.
Speaking of the docu. I guess it's not complete since the maya section show images of ver.2 (like the shelf...).

The plug-in documentation hasn't been updated yet.

the camera script works well, thanx, now I'm playing a lot ...
Is it possible to fix the issue of scatter the same way ? I mean connecting a MXS and not only a mesh to the scatter node ..?