[JCAddy]

Can anyone else simply double click on an mxm to open the MXED and tweak the material? I have to open MXED first then go from there, which is sort of a pain in the neck.

[LesliePere]

Yup. Confirmed.

[Bogdan Coroi]

Try this command in your command prompt:

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echo %MAXWELL_ROOT%

and make sure it points to the correct Maxwell 1.5 path.

Also, you might want to remap the extension to the new mxed.exe, since Windows Explorer is not that smart. The simplest way to do it is by reseting the current file type association. Open an Explorer instance, Tool Menu->Folder Options...->File Types Tab. Look for the .mxm file extension and delete it. Close the dialog. Double click again on the .mxm file and browse to your new mxed.exe file.

Hope it helps.

[Nuno Faria]

Try this command in your command prompt:

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echo %MAXWELL_ROOT%

and make sure it points to the correct Maxwell 1.5 path.

Also, you might want to remap the extension to the new mxed.exe, since Windows Explorer is not that smart. The simplest way to do it is by reseting the current file type association. Open an Explorer instance, Tool Menu->Folder Options...->File Types Tab. Look for the .mxm file extension and delete it. Close the dialog. Double click again on the .mxm file and browse to your new mxed.exe file.

Hope it helps.

I did exactly what you said, and when i try to double click on the material (mxm) it pop's up an error dialog box saying "The Parameter is Incorrect"

[JCAddy]

Try this command in your command prompt:

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echo %MAXWELL_ROOT%

and make sure it points to the correct Maxwell 1.5 path.

Also, you might want to remap the extension to the new mxed.exe, since Windows Explorer is not that smart. The simplest way to do it is by reseting the current file type association. Open an Explorer instance, Tool Menu->Folder Options...->File Types Tab. Look for the .mxm file extension and delete it. Close the dialog. Double click again on the .mxm file and browse to your new mxed.exe file.

Hope it helps.

I did exactly what you said, and when i try to double click on the material (mxm) it pop's up an error dialog box saying "The Parameter is Incorrect"

[Mihnea Balta]

Open Explorer and go to Tools -> Folder Options -> File Types and find "MXM" in the list. Click "Advanced". You should see an action called something like "Open with Material Editor". Make sure it's the default, select it and click "Edit". In the "Application used to perform this action" make sure you have the following string:

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"C:\Program Files\Next Limit\Maxwell\mxed.exe" -mxm:"%1"

Of course, replace the path above with the path where you have 1.5 installed. Don't forget the quotes around %1 and don't put any spaces before or after the colon.

Anyway, this is not a Max plug-in issue. :)

[michaelplogue]

Anyway, this is not a Max plug-in issue.

Perhaps then it's a Max Plug-in Installation issue...

[Mihnea Balta]

It's a Maxwell installation issue. ;)

[michaelplogue]

It's a Maxwell installation issue.

My bad!

[LesliePere]

%MAXWELL_ROOT% is correct, and the file type association is correct to every detail, yet it's still not opening the mat editor after double clicking the mxm file type.

[JDHill]

Hi Leslie, try this:

1) open Explorer, browse to a folder containing .mxm files
2) right-click any .mxm file
3) click 'Open With'
4) click 'Choose Program'
5) check the checkbox near the bottom of the window - 'Always use the selected program to open this kind of file'
6) browse your Maxwell directory, choose mxed.exe
7) click OK

Let me know if it works,

JD

[LesliePere]

No it doesn't. But thanks for the suggestion.

PS: I've actually done that a couple of times before, too.

[LesliePere]

Ok, I fixed it. Oddly, as Mihnea suggested a few threads below:

"C:\Program Files\Next Limit\Maxwell\mxed.exe" -mxm:"%1"

Did not work. That's what I originally had. I had to remove the "-mxm:"%1"" from the end like this:

"C:\Program Files\Next Limit\Maxwell\mxed.exe"

Now this works. Don't ask me why...