[lluistar]

Nigel,

It's true that it becomes a single object, but you can use the select triangles tool to select every mesh individually and the key "/" will select all the connected tris. Then you just drag and drop a material over the selection. so you can have different materials on the same object.

[Jake256]

This is what I start with.





This is what I am getting when I render. It started to work the first two times then I stopped the renders to make an adjustment. No this is all I get.

[Jake256]

please have a look at this - i cannot read what's inside the folders...

Same here. Impossible to read. Also the the word render is black on black in the tool bar. Super cool Next Limit, but impossible to see.

I also tried the MXCl function and it told me my file was invalid. Hmmmm... things are not going so well.

[Jake256]

In fact, someone wake me up when they post something usable. Good night.

[medmonds]

When I try the terminal code, I get:
"illegal instruction"
Thats it. Does this make any sense to anyone in the know?

[lluistar]

Matt
Aluminum Powerbook

Yes, It makes sense, since Maxwell does not work on a G4 and if you are using an Aluminum Powerbook you have a G4.

You'll need to wait until NL fix it

[medmonds]

Thats what I was afraid of. This blows.

[medmonds]

This is really a huge oversight considering all portable macs are G4 based... and will NEVER be G5 based with the Intel chips right around the corner.

And since I want to dump my Powerbook to get a Mac Book Pro, I might be screwing myself of the chance to even try runnning Maxwell for the foreseeable future... since I'm sure NL has not even thought of tackling the Universal Binary development track. WTF.

[medmonds]

Someone please hit me over the head with a heavy object.

[Jake256]

Yes the G4 thing blows.

Well I didn't give up as anticipated. Kept at it and I'm getting a render. The strange image image in the render window only happens when I try to change the path of the render OUT of the Maxwell. I 'm sure I'm not doing something correct, but it isn't really discused in the User Guide.

Irritating thing 1:
When first open the material browser or render option the windows pop up. Since Studio opens fullscreen when I click on Studio then the pop ups go behind studio. When I go back to render option in the menu bar it is not clickable. What really happens is that it is open, but behind studio so you need to minimize Studio to find these windows. Maybe it's just me, but is there a better way for this to work?

Irritating thing 2:
To stop a render you click on the render window. While rendering I was going through other windows in another application and accidently clicked on the Studio window which stopped the render. This really needs to be a button, not an entire window.

[Jake256]

The stop render fuction must be a button, not an entire window. That is way to irritating Next Limit. It's to easy to stop a render.

[goncalo]

now everything ok
IT OPNES NORMAL the MXstudio

but i can´t open any 3D object

[mgroeteke]

the preview, render and shading modi in the 3d viewport are not working correctly.

if i try to render a preview inside the 3d viewport it has a yellowish tint.
also, i cannot select any other shader mode other than hidden line, bounding box, wireframe.

[mgroeteke]

if i have to synced 3d viewports and one of them in preview mode it would be useful if any camera movement would be updated instantly in the preview rendering à la fprime. at the moment, the preview renderer seems to write over already calculated passes wich creates a mess. you have manually to stop and start the preview again.

[Nigel Baker]

Just downloaded the new G5 version.
I can select an object now and the selection tools work.
But that constant wash of yellow is back in even after the work around fix Nextlimit told me about.