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maxwell render resume - renders 2 files as ghost images
Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 10:10 am
by aqualis
I rendered a first view out of Rhino5, up to SL11, then from the same Rhino file, I rendered a second view after stopping the first render and saving the MXI (in order to resume it later, at night)
After rendering the second for some hours, I stopped it and saved it's MXI too. Now I resumed the first MXI to render at night.
The first MXI now gives an image where the two files are visible at once... what's happening here? I've had this happen before!
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Re: maxwell render resume - renders 2 files as ghost images
Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 4:50 pm
by Bubbaloo
The second time you rendered, it wrote over the first MXS. So when you resumed the 1st MXI, it read from the MXS that was different. Make sure that if you plan to resume an MXI, you save an MXS with it that it will use to resume.
Re: maxwell render resume - renders 2 files as ghost images
Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 5:06 pm
by gtalarico
I have this problem often as well...
And I am confused...
I didn't think the MXS changed while rendering...
In Maxwell (not studio), there are no options to save/export MXS....
Does that mean I should keep an "original", non-used copy of the MXS to resume renderings?
Re: maxwell render resume - renders 2 files as ghost images
Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 12:46 pm
by Mihai
The MXS used to resume has changed but has the same name as the first render you did, so yes it can't work in this case. I think the Rhino plugin has an option to make sure it outputs unique MXS file names to avoid these issues.
Re: maxwell render resume - renders 2 files as ghost images
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 9:24 pm
by gtalarico
What type of information changes on the MXS as it is rendered?
I thought the MXS only saved geometry, materials, etc... that it was kind of read-only...?
Thanks in advance.
Re: maxwell render resume - renders 2 files as ghost images
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 9:48 pm
by Bubbaloo
Nothing in the MXS will change while you are rendering, unless you go in the MXS and manually change it and save it. Resuming an MXI that points to a MXS that has been changed will result in ghosting of 2 images.
Re: maxwell render resume - renders 2 files as ghost images
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 9:58 pm
by Fernando Tella
The problem is that you are resuming a mxi made from a different mxs with different geometry but the same name. So Maxwell thinks the mxs is the same (as it has the same name) but it is not; nevertheless it starts adding new light information to the old mxi that comes from the most recent scene file (which has different geometry).
Putting all together: Don't hit resume when you are not resuming anything but making a new render.
Re: maxwell render resume - renders 2 files as ghost images
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 8:10 pm
by gtalarico
Got it. Thanks for you time!