[noseman]

Ok, the story goes like this:
When I dlded M~R beta and the new cinemaxwell plugin, I couldn't render anything more than a few minutes. A crash was always waiting for me.

I first suspected it could be the plugin, so what I did was to get an old mxs scene (focus.mxs) I had made with 3DS max and try to render it from a command line on Mac OSX.
My first tests ended in a crash after a few minutes.
I then started playing with the new mxcl command line features by using the -hd option (-hd = hard disk) and suddenly my renders didn't crash.
M~R ALWAYS crashes upon finish (time limit or samples) but the image is there. By using 99999999 minutes and 25 samples the render goes on!!!

I then returned to cinema and made a few scenes and rendered them with the -hd in the CL options. It seemed to work and then I deleted the -hd option and it worked again.

I don't know what happened, but I can render now.
I may have missed something I did, I dunno really!!!

at the moment I am rendering a hirez scene. I will post it later if everything goes well!

MacOSX - C4D 9.1 - Dual G5 1.8

[yazan]

noseman, thats funny, I came here to report the same thing but this is what happens. by the way, I'm on OSX 10.4.1 LW 8.2 G4 1Ghz and 1Gb RAM
I render my test scene, put 1 minute time, -hd option, it finished rendering, I saw that green light in upper right corner instead of amber, opened safari and then it crashed, but before it crashed upon finishing time. So ya, wierdness!
Yazan

[noseman]

Not in the beginning. I first tested the -hd option from a command line. I rendered some mxs files I made with C4D.
after that I used it in cinemaxwell. As a matter of fact, I don't even know if the command line options work in cinemaxwell. In the text file it says:
"5.-"Command line" options for MacOSX still don't work."

I don't know what is happening with maxwell beta because it seems that the cinemaxwell plugin causes many problems. when I render older files (March 24 - from 3ds max) it renders in beta fine. If I make new mxs files from C4D I get a load of problems.

I am totaly puzzled!

[Kabe]

Confirmed. The -hd option helps. However, it just means that it takes longer to the crash, which happens at least after half an hour.

Kabe