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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

Do you have 2 monitors?

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

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.

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

r.

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

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

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...

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

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