[jleckron]

mverta - thanks for the advice on the emitter - I kept trying to add it to the existing material (d'oh - it must be getting late)

I tried copying the license file, but didn't get anything - maybe after another reboot, like, tomorrow morning...

hrothgar - I don't have anyplace readilly available to upload the file to, and am thinking about going to bed real soon - if you're still interested tomorrow morning, I'll see what I can do (I'm in the EST)

[Voidmonster]

Okay. I'm flummoxed. I installed everything onto my laptop and now it works just fine.

[rivoli]

well, i'm off to bed now, thanks for your help mike.

[Voidmonster]

Okay. I can get the render icon to work now (on a different computer). The MikeTest.mxs scene works. However, the scene I uploaded still only shows anything if rendered in Preview mode.

I've tried:

Physical sky
set, saved, reloaded (sometimes 'sticks', sometimes it doesn't -- it never produces anything but black on that scene)

Emitter
6500 w
65000 w
with and without physical sky.

The scene is consistently black when rendered.

I exported the geometry from Lightwave. I tried both LW native and .obj. All polys were tripeled. The LW native file wouldn't load. No error, but no data either. I'm thinking this must be a problem with the data.

[dd_]

i got the studio(lol) working(ish)
but for now i would like to know about the c4d plugin when i set up a scene (sphere +camera) all i get is the dos window and then it tells me the MXS file is obsolete (old version) in the console so my question is this what do i have to do to get it to work??

i must say i didnt know we would have to fight so hard to get some stuff done , its bad enough working hard for clients let alone working hard to install software. also i like others would have waited for a puker working version (said this before again and again). and as for the post bugs in the bug thread, so we are beta testing, many of these bugs are sooooooooo obvious and easy to get that they should have been tested before shipping the RC out, if NL could make us wait till they wanted to like they have done why then didnt they make us wait till they had something workable, its not like any of us had forced them to ship it out now. they did this on thier own back so its not down to us shouting NOW NOW NOW is it.

if i can get the c4d plugin working that will keep me going until other stuff is sorted out

[Tyrone Marshall]

http://www.mikeverta.com/Posts/MikesTest.mxs

That's a little scene with 2 spheres and a cyclo with an emitter... one layered material and a diffuse. You control the balance between layers with the Weight Map control in the Material Editor window. The sum total of material layers must not exceed 1.0 at this point.

Download and try it!

_Mike

Thanks for the scene Mike,

I actually got a decent and fast render accomplished. I also got to test the preview.

Thanks a lot, there is a lot of potential here. For a moment I was worried, but I feel a lot better - this thing has really evolved from the Beta. It need the cinema 4D plugin to work to really take advantage as I can set up my scenes there and map things a lot better.

[Stephen]

I initially had same problem as everyone else with the crashing upon clicking the little render icon but after doing exactly what MVerta said...
Here's what I've done:

Uninstalled the beta and installed RC1.
Placed license.dat file in both c:\Next Limit\Maxwell folder and in c:\program files\Next Limit\Maxwell\mxcl folder.
Right-Click MyComputer>Properties>Advanced>environment variables
Set the User variables for PATH to C:\Program Files\Next Limit\Maxwell\;C:\Program Files\Next Limit\Maxwell\mxcl\ and made sure MAXWELL_ROOT was set to c:\Program files\Next Limit\Maxwell
After that
Launch maxwell studio and opened Mikestest.mxs
Preview works fine
Moving camera around works fine
Render preview works fine
Little Render icon opens new mxcl window
and launches Render works fine

Hope this helps a bit . . .
BTW new network manager and mxcl look dope!

I've done the same thing with virtually no results. I guess I will be one of the many customers waiting on the first patch. To all that have it working, have fun.

[kunstraum.tv]

yes, it´s annoying that they released an obvious buggy RC1...that can happen. not nice, but nothing where i would shout "liar" etc...
it´s all about communication now. the main questions for me now are: is NL able to take the anger and the disappointment of the client seriously ? do they take responsibility for that and do an excuse ? and above all...are they offer a solution to this problem very fast ? these are actually the only points where they can raise the faith of the client again....doing nothing, no announcement, no reaction is now the worst thing they could do. doing an error is okay, annoying, but okay...it´s all about how to deal with !!!

[Tyrone Marshall]

Just using Mike's test scene to see how this thing handles..impressive...

This is just a viewport preview (it was at this level in like seconds)---NOT ACTUAL RENDER!



This is the render (2 mins) - a bit small but hey it worked!

[trofaster]

Damn i'm tired of scrolling through 8% good advice (keep it up beta testers)on how to get this thing to work and 92% angry rampling. Could someone setup a locked thread with only the advice please??

[faraz]

Looks like we're the testing team

NL, get yourself a proper testing & debugging methodology with professional testers not paying customers.

[Joss]

Mike, i've just tried your test mxs and after few crashes it works. Where did you get it from? Maya/Max/etc?
What version of plug-in did you used?

[andronikos916]

fast test with RC1



I will upload more and soon some tips and tutorials!

cy,
Andronikos

[trofaster]

Damn i'm tired of scrolling through 8% good advice (keep it up beta testers)on how to get this thing to work and 92% angry rampling. Could someone setup a locked thread with only the advice please??

[cnevians]

pré render running .. good with physical sky ... or dome..
but render NO !!!!

wait update ??