[3dtrialpractice]

ps also in the rc1-4's at the end of image renderig no matter waht it always prompted "render Failed" does this still happen wit rc5?

This one always drives me nuts, but since it's just a text-fix, it may be way low on the priority list. But it hasn't actually "failed." It's just been "stopped."

Bigger fish to fry, my friend.

_Mike

-oooh- this would explain why animaiton was N/A in rc1-4, becasue the renders were "stopped" at completing a frame, so mxcl treated it like a stop, so it never went on to the next frame..

Mike,
so It's safe for me to think that animation wont be available in rc5 since the render's will still be "stopped" at frames completion?
-just verifing, since you also posted something that said the developers are wanting to get a single frame to render before moving on to mutli frames rendering (this you write in response to motion blur)

-also, I saw that the timeline was removed in rc studio, I think it was present in rc1 but i didnt see it in rc3-4.. i guess that rc5 studio stillwont have a timeline?

keep on the testing mike (although you deserve a break)

[mverta]

Do you have a job, work to do that puts food on the table? You seem to be pouring too much time into the Maxwell work, and while I for one appreciate your efforts to communicate with the B-team (like a straight-to-video movie, so sad) I have to wonder how long you can keep up the pace.

I also understand you paid for a licence. I've betatested other 3D products, and never been asked to pay for a licence. A free licence is the usual 'payment' for all the hard work betatestes do. I hope NL throws you a bone.

Presumption, thy name is Ernest. How could you possibly know if I'm pouring "too much work" into Maxwell or not?!

How I make my living isn't really any of your concern, but for the record, I'm a film and television composer whose visual effects hobby accidentally became a second career 12 years ago profitable enough for me to open my own post-production house. You're welcome to Google me or go to my site or whatever, but as far as visual-effects are concerned, I still use mental ray for production work, I work almost constantly, even when testing Maxwell, and I believe in the work going on here.

But I don't sleep much.

_Mike

[mverta]

[BIG BAD MOD THREAD EDIT]

Ok, we're just going to pretend that never happened. A low-point for this mega-thread, and I wasn't helping any, either.

Move along... Move along...

_Mike

[JCAddy]

[MOD EDIT]

**We're not keeping any the off-topic comments from that totally derailed tangent alive. No matter how clever you think it is. Do not post them again.**

[mverta]

Down, boy! That was me being concerned that you were giving so much while other betatesters aren't saying much of anything.

Ahh... my bad, then. Apologies for sh*tting on a nice thought. Damn. Hey, though... I wonder if the absence of other testers may mean they're better testers than me... too busy to be forumizizing. But then again, I got the whole English-speaking thing going for me. Plus I'd just miss you guys so much.

_Mike

[leoA4D]

I'm reposting this innocent compliment because it disappeared overnight w/o a reasonable explanation.

'

...I work almost constantly, even when testing Maxwell, and I believe in the work going on here.

But I don't sleep much.

_Mike

Impressive - all three above.'

I was impressed with your commitment.

[The Pixel Artist]

Wow the parties really died out around here. So lets get things back on topic then, shall we?

A-Team/NL: Once again the question is still up in the air. Can M~R now or very soon be able to render a scene just like the Vray example I provided (http://www.thepixelartist.com/images/ma ... _test2.jpg) in a reasonable timeframe. And actually I would consider "reasonable" to have all caustics/reflections to be at least somewhat visible after a few minutes. Obviously not noise free but visible. (Is it just me or am I still hearing LOOUUD NOISES, maybe it the moans of the development team).

M~R ability to preview an image fast, to me, is it's greatest strength. But not if you have to wait hours for all light phenomenon to appear.

[Maximus3D]

So.. NL, got any more juicy news to share with us regarding the progress of RC5 ?

Thanks in advance

/ Max

[aitraaz]

Yep its getting dull we need some 'juice'...

[Nigel Baker]

We dont exactly need, I would prefear, "want" a release, not just news of one.

Please.
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[jleckron]

question for Mihai (or whomever) re. the new images: You say

The bump is just a noisemap applied to this layer and no shapes necessary

- does this mean that we have now have procedurals, or just simply that you had an img with noise on it that you used for noise?

I'm just going to bump this question, since I think it got drowned out durring the ongoing fracus.

[mverta]

There are no procedurals at this time.

_Mike

[ludi]

There are no procedurals at this time.

_Mike

I don't care that.
Procedurals aren't realistic anyway!
(expect terragen clouds

[jleckron]

There are no procedurals at this time.

_Mike

Thanks for the answer, Mike - it's appreciated (even if it isn't what I wanted to hear)

[The Pixel Artist]

There are no procedurals at this time.

_Mike

I don't care that.
Procedurals aren't realistic anyway!

??? Really? Well I guess today’s implementation of procedural texturing does leave quite a bit to be desired. But make no mistake; the future belongs to procedural surfacing/materials (and everything else for that matter). Besides Maxwells unstopibly unbiased "give me physics or give me death" way of doing things it just dying for a HQ procedural system (should be/could be a great combo).

On that note, it looks like Modo 201 will implement one of the better procedural systems to date. I still giddy with it's potential.