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Brief return to MW confirms nothing has changed!!!
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:13 pm
by adri
Not used MW for months because of crashes.
Tried again tonight. C4D -> Crashes on a super simple scene with just one material applied.
VRay/C4D AR3 it is then. It's such a pity because I often want to use an unbiased rendering engine but this is just completely unreliable!!!
Adri
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:41 pm
by Mr. Gog
Been using MW render without major problems...for months.
Check your versions and installation...
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:55 pm
by adri
Just installed the latest plugin and the latest MW.
Why should I have to do anything more to get a simple cube to render out?
It isn't the kind of experience that makes you consider doing any work with it!!!
thx for the reply and good luck with MW.
Adri
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 11:59 pm
by Mr. Gog
Lot of lucky already...people say many good things about our renders.
No reason to look back for now.
Maybe you have two copies of maxwell installed on the same machine!
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:07 am
by pipcleo
I have to say also that I'm getting near flawless operability now with 1.7.1
on 5 different macs , including the latest.
Using studio, but admittedly no network rendering
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 8:44 pm
by Mr. Gog
No problems here with network render!
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:29 pm
by lchest
using 1.7.1 with 3ds Max 2009 & its quite reliable. I do get crashes now & then, but not too often (depending on the scene). I get a kind of "warning" as when the render dialog is open, suddenly the top tab "General Settings` switches to `Simulens`, so I have two Simulens tabs instead of one. At that point I know its going to crash so I do a quick save & then it bombs out immediately.
Main problem is I have 7 quad core machines & with all these working on a single image its still way, way, way too slow to be usable on most projects.
One thing to be careful of is your scene scale & any objects you have in your scene that are massive - this will cause the render to fail (as was happening to me)
OOPs - sorry. Just noticed this is a Mac thread
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 10:01 am
by mgroeteke
call me biased, but it's the truth: maxwell is one of the most stable apps on my macs! working with formz and lightwave, so i can't tell for the C4D plugin, though.
so i guess: maybe there are some problems with installation? what hardware and software versions are you using? did you check for doubles of any maxwell components, even in the trash?
cheers
markus
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:06 pm
by Mr. Gog
It's very stable on C4d, too.
VectorWorks (modeling), Cinema 4d and Maxwell. (workflow).
No complaints.
We have: 3 Octa Macs 2.8, with 10 GB of ram each one.
Also 13 imac's core 2 duo. We use all for Network Rendering.
Maxwell doesn't cause problems...very stable.
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:46 pm
by cgbeige
There are bugs with texturing in Maya (black textures) and the network co-op rendering simply doesn't work for Mac OS X (see the other threads) but as a new user moving from Mental Ray, I'm still happy overall. The support could be much better. I had to contact my sales rep to get service and my queries about my forum account were tossed into a black hole. This needs to change.