[jjs]

SW plugin


+ side

Clean install - I think

colour in renderings

- side

no physical sky

still seems dark


Maxwell Studio

+ side

Clean install

Colour in rendering

Skydome works in preview only


- side

Sunlight no good

No renderings - only preview

Not much more to say - I think we just have to wait till they get things under control.

TTFN


Jonathan

[John Layne]

Hi Jonathon,

1/ Couldn't get materials to attach in plugin.
2/ Cleared all material in standalone attached material and one light created in standalone, on hitting render button says no material or emitters attached.
3/ The object list is rather annoying I want assmembly and part names in here and then have this expandable to show names of surface or solidbodles (which I never name in solidworks so they all end up as "extrude 1 or revolve 59" etc)
4/ RC3 currently unusable for solidworks users

[John Layne]

Manged to get a render out of the Plug-in
For some reason the emitter went from white to black hence previously no render.
There is nothing in the plug-in preview windo

[John Layne]

After 3hours 50min the render looks a lot worse than the Beta, the Beta looked better after 2 hours.

[John Layne]

After 5 hours 34min quality is a lot less than the Beta, disapointing.

[jjs]

Hi Jonathon,

1/ Couldn't get materials to attach in plugin.
2/ Cleared all material in standalone attached material and one light created in standalone, on hitting render button says no material or emitters attached.
3/ The object list is rather annoying I want assmembly and part names in here and then have this expandable to show names of surface or solidbodles (which I never name in solidworks so they all end up as "extrude 1 or revolve 59" etc)
4/ RC3 currently unusable for solidworks users

1 - It works here - I think - - its just very hard to tell as there is no preview as you point out and the Light from the emitter is very 'dark' gone upto 50,000W and still dark - doh - I should just try out the camera shutter and aperture

2 - Stand alone gives a quick preview if using skydome but I find it crashes often and locks up and is very difficult to end a rendering cleanly.

3 - Yes - part name would be good. In the plugin we select either face, body or part - Maxwell Studio should take the name of what is selected in the SW plugin.

4 - I would agree with that - It has lost that 'elusive' ease of use that it had. However Juans news that they are looking at importing MXM files into SW will mean a great deal. Lets hope SW set aside a bit of time to improve the texturing of components - perhaps they need a bit of help from a company like NL to understand the requirements.

Beta > RC(skydome) > photoworks - That is all I have to say at the moment

Recovered from your party? - feel different - probably not. I just feel old now that I know the Leader of the Conservative Party here in the UK is younger than me

TTFN


Jonathan