[robin of nottingham]

I can open a new studio file no probls but when I save it and reopen it the screen becomes red and flickers all over the place. Was half way through somehting in a partucular view and now the file will not let me view it with out it flashing about. When I first opened it it said something about preferences but thats not happening any more.... whats it doing?

thanks,

r

[Bubbaloo]

Do you have 2 monitors?

[robin of nottingham]

yes I do... two big mother cinema things.....

I ve restarted my machine and it seems to have corrected its self, thought I d lost about an hour and halfs work. I am doing a basic animation for a friends website. Just rendering a scene then rotating the screen a bit then re rendering. Basic I know but the render will be real small thing in the corner of a screen. Hence losing the angle of the scene was a disaster! But back to it working now. Its seems to be working okay I think.

Is the two monitor thing a problem then?

My machine is a dual quad core thing with bells and whistles so a 2min render per frames doing okay.

thanks,

r

[Bubbaloo]

The reason I ask about the dual monitors is, with opengl and mxst for some reason, if you double-click an mxs file from the right-side monitor, it will mess up the display inside mxst (red bg and constant refreshing). Always make sure you open it from an icon on the left screen.

[robin of nottingham]

your the person that did that banjo..... Thats an amazing render... real stunning stuff. I am a fan!

r.

[Bubbaloo]

Thanks, man! That was my first semi-complex model in Max and a very early Maxwell render. Great learning experience.

[robin of nottingham]

how an earth did you realise that! Ah well then I be careful from now on, thanks.

Have you ever done animations at all? are you using 3-d studio max then? I am rhino fella doing jewellery cad stuff myself.

I just doing a exhibition stand and rotating it in space for short animation for a graphix company. Learnt alot about doing decals onto surfaces and fitting them.... so though painful I am learning some important stuff.

r

[Bubbaloo]

Yeah, if you're going to do animations and/or texturing complex objects, I'd definately recommend getting a 3d app with a good Maxwell plugin like Max. I have done some very simple animations with Maxwell through the Max plugin. Definately easier than moving the camera, rendering, moving the camera, rendering...

[JDHill]

Robin, you can most likely do this automatically from Rhino - here's an animation tutorial.

[robin of nottingham]

I was pretty sure that I could do the animation using rhino but would needed to do a kinda fly through thing. Since I had nt til this project even really used decals that was in its self a learning curve that was steep! Fly throughs seem a distant dream.

Thanks for the link jd.... I think its something that I really need to learn to do for future stuff but was struggling time wise this occasion. I really struggle with the long instruction stuff... takes me ages and ages to work stuff out and being dyslexic does nt help .

I am actually a very good modeller in rhino but I seem to be blind when it comes to working the render stuff! I am also currently getting to grips with claytools software and making good progress and good results but all this learning taking its time and I am not earning when doing that (maybe the claytools subject needs another maxwell posting cos that has its own render problems in rhino with the files being massive stls).

If I were to do more of this stuff would it be worth getting bongo.... is it any good?

For the claytools huge stl reason (90 meg objects for good smooth results) I export everything into studio from rhino or claytools and work on materials and everything else from there... maybe this is a habit that i need to stop if I want to get better with maxwell then? I bought the printed user manual for studio so having instructions that relate to directly to studio is somehow simpler.

I ll be getting my 90 frames to the customer today where they will put in into flash I think so i can see if all is well! Fingers crossed. I n return they host and will hopefully update my now old website!

thanks,

r