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I am running Mac OSX on a Dual G5 also on a quad G5 (NOT INTEL) and when I installed the new Maya plug ins and the Stand alone Maxwell Studio and Renderer I run into the following.....

Studio 1.5 launches no sweat.. I register the plugin in and get no errors.. If I load a scene and render it says exporting objects then MXL does not launch.

If I launch Maya and use Maxwell as my render it loads 1.1 even though it is no longer in the apps folder. It may be on another hard drive somewhere but why is it finding it. ?

It will find it because is the registered application to open mxs in your system, it will find it even in Trash if you didn't emptied it. So locate it (the easiest way is when it is run you can righ-click in the icon in the Dock and select "show in Finder") and delete it completely (you can keep a compressed version of the folder just in case).

Hope it helps

nachob

I have gotten further along
I went to my terminal and did an open mxcl.app and 1.5 .01 opened
Then tried the studio again and it worked also and found 1.5 .. good news..
Then I did Maya and VICTORY also found mxcl 1.5 and did voxelation etc says starting render but nothing is happening

===================== New session opened at 28/May/2007 16:03:07 =====

MAXWELL RENDER (M~R). Engine version Maxwell Render 1.5.0.1
(C) 2004-2007. Licensed to Next Limit Technologies

/Applications/Maxwell/mxcl.app/Contents/MacOS/mxcl -d -seed:1 -mxs:/tmp/mxs4LvPza
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

>> Note: Ignored obsolete 'seed' field

[28/May/2007 16:03:07] Reading MXS:/tmp/mxs4LvPza
[28/May/2007 16:03:07] MXS file read successfully

Geometry:
- Num Meshes: 46
- Num Triangles: 519508
- Num Vertexes: 260062
- Num Normals: 260054
Bitmaps:
. Num Bitmaps: 0

>> Note: Ignored obsolete 'seed' field
Render settings:

- render core : RS1
- render version : Maxwell Render 1.5.0.1
- desired rendering time : 33h20m00s
- desired sampling level : 100
- render resolution : 2000 x 2540
- using 4 threads
- illumination layers:
. . direct layer: true
. . indirect layer: true
. . direct caustic reflection layer: true
. . direct caustic refraction layer: true
. . indirect caustic reflection layer: true
. . indirect caustic refraction layer: true

[28/May/2007 16:03:08] Checking Data
[28/May/2007 16:03:08] Loading Bitmaps & Preprocessing Data
[28/May/2007 16:03:09] Start Voxelization
[28/May/2007 16:03:31] End of voxelization
[28/May/2007 16:03:32] Start Rendering

Besides the "seed filed" I do not see any other errors....

Any ideas...

I will say there is a 1.1 render going currrently that I started to get a job done... do I have to stop that??? In order for the 1.5 to start???

Peter

Took a lot longer than normal... weird... might have been becuase I have 1.1 running also.

Not sure what I did right but I am 1.5 up and running... now I just have to get the network rendering going and I will die a happy man

Peter