[Gary]

Hello:

Pushing up against a deadline and MXS file I try to open in studio crashes studio when loading data.

I have reinstalled studio and it did not help. I have tried loading old files and same problem on some but not all.

File opens fine in MXCL. It is a large multilight file— 353 MB MXS. I have 8 gigs ram in machine.

MAC os X 10.5.4

Maxwell studio 1.7.1

form Z plug in

Any help is appreciated. Slight panic setting in...

Thanks,

Gary

[Gary]

not sure how to decipher this but it appears the crash is in thread o:

Process: mxstudio [564]
Path: /Applications/Maxwell/mxstudio.app/Contents/MacOS/mxstudio
Identifier: com.nextlimit.mxstudio
Version: ??? (1.7)
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [82]

Date/Time: 2009-01-09 16:28:57.863 -0800
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.4 (9E17)
Report Version: 6

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x000000003ee70000
Crashed Thread: 0

Thread 0 Crashed:
0 com.nextlimit.mxstudio 0x000ef4d2 MxsReader::readMatrixAndAttributesOfObject(MaxwellObjectsTreeItem*, Cmaxwell::Cobject) + 3296
1 com.nextlimit.mxstudio 0x000f8476 MxsReader::readGeometry() + 3858
2 com.nextlimit.mxstudio 0x000fa688 MxsReader::readScene(bool const&, bool const&) + 1334
3 com.nextlimit.mxstudio 0x000614d6 MainApp::loadGeometryFile(QString const&, bool) + 560
4 com.nextlimit.mxstudio 0x000d69b7 main + 2093
5 com.nextlimit.mxstudio 0x000026e6 _start + 216
6 com.nextlimit.mxstudio 0x0000260d start + 41


Gary

[ishook]

reinstall?

[Bubbaloo]

I have reinstalled studio and it did not help.

[Bubbaloo]

I'm not familiar with the FormZ plugin. Are you performing actions in MXST that are not available in FormZ? Why not render from the plugin? Can you try re-exporting the MXS file from the plugin?

That's a huge file, are you using MXST 64 bit. (Probably a stupid question, but needs to be asked...)

I saw that a new FormZ plugin was released. Are you using it, and if so can you revert back to the last one?

Some bad RAM?

Running out of RAM?

I hope you get it solved!

[Gary]

Thanks for the tips— no solution yet.

I am only trying to use studio to do a clean Pack and Go so I can upload to a renderfarm.

Am running the new plug in and will try reverting. Am not running out of ram...

Thanks,

Gary

[Gary]

totally pulling hair now... texture map settings are no longer being followed on files that were rendering fine before...

[JTB]

Problems with studio and VISTA64 too... when I click on the screen, MXST crashes...

[jespi]

Hi Gary,

I'm almost sure that your issue is related to the video driver( I've experienced that problems before). I have seem that you are running 10.5.4 but the last mac osx build is 10.5.6, so I think that if you update to 10.5.6 problems will disappear. Are you using Nvidia's graphic card?. I recommend you always update mac osx because the graphic drivers are within that updates.

Hope that makes sense,

José

[Bubbaloo]

Problems with studio and VISTA64 too... when I click on the screen, MXST crashes...

Doesn't happen here.

[Stinkie7000]

Hi Gary,

I'm almost sure that your issue is related to the video driver( I've experienced that problems before). I have seem that you are running 10.5.4 but the last mac osx build is 10.5.6, so I think that if you update to 10.5.6 problems will disappear. Are you using Nvidia's graphic card?. I recommend you always update mac osx because the graphic drivers are within that updates.

Hope that makes sense,

José

Good tip, thanks.

[rusteberg]

Gary, I was having the same kind of issue not too long ago. (oddly enough it happened in the evening on a Friday as well)

I just deployed the mxs that opened fine in mxcl and had to put all image maps in same directory..... painstaking, but it met deadline. I feel your pain.

[Gary]

Just a follow up to the problems I was experiencing—

1. the sole reason I was wanting to open the MXS in studio was to do a pack and go, as I was then uploading the files to a render farm.

2. I ended up manually, carefully, assembling all referenced files/images and was able to render successfully.

3. Having assembled all referenced images, I just tried re-opening the MXS files in studio, now that all referenced files were in the same folder as the MXS (as Rusteberg suggested... thanks). To my surprise, the first 2 MXS files I tried worked. But I have since tried reopening them and others and now only one of them will open???

Thanks for all of the suggestions.

regards,

Gary