[tikal26]

could you post some renderings all I see is preview and it would be nice to see some real renderings with some times just to see the diff.
I hope that you are right and that the core has improved and tha all the bugs are non critical

[Olivier Cugniet]

well then i will wait to see the new maya plug-in

[Becco_UK]

Kevin Sutherland: It seems most success is being achieved where people have had the 3D plugin updated. For others the situation, at present, is pretty much a sham.

[Mihai]

Well I really like the new material possibilities, this release isn't so unusable as people suggest, I think though lots of things have been deactivated....

And we need info on how to use the new materials.

[Becco_UK]

Mihai Iliuta: Perhaps your definition of stability is much different to my interpretation. After "3 years of hard work" by Next Limit most people cannot even get RC to output a render. Just as well Next Limit didn't take things easy.

Nice render though - what 3D software are you using?

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[Becco_UK]

Just for to clarify my question for the child like response above:

Mihai Iliuta: What software did you export the scene from?

Because you feel it is so fantastic perhaps you would also be kind enough to provide a basic step by step how you got there?

Whiskey: Perhaps if the beta testers had actually done some proper 'betaring' there wouldn't be the the Maxwell sham of today! Place that where the sunshine don't shine - in this case MaxwellRC

[wagurto]

I am using the viz plug in after follow or your recommendations, every thing look be working but all that I am getting it's black screen.
What am I missing?

[Mihai]

These are obj, exported from XSI.

I just got home a few hours ago, but I just took it step by step.

-Uninstalled Maxwell
-deleted old Maxwell folder
-installed the RC
-made sure there was an environment variable named Path and it point to the mxcl folder (there has to also be a MAXWELL_ROOT variable pointing to the main Maxwell folder)

That's it, I can render. Ofcourse there are issues, mostly I think disabled features.

- no sky or skydome
- no textures
- if I use the dropdown menu from the viewport and chose Render, it crashes, every time. But if I just use the render button, it doesn't. In fact it hasn't crashed once.
- if I try and change the weightmap param in material editor, it freezes.
- opening material browser stalls it for a few secs.
- buttons on top row don't stay depressed, so you don't know if you're in move or rotate...
- in mxcl, preview window doesn't seem to work
- changing iso/shutterspeed doesn't seem to work
- enabling/disabling material layers doesn't do anything
......

that's all I have for now

Like I said I have only used it for a very short while, but the speed and materials look really promising.

I mean look at those highlights, they're not just plain white, there's subtle color tinges, and the way it spreads out, and little blue stripes from the coating.....it's really nice I think.

I really hope they start enabling the rest of the functionality in the following days.

wagurto, sky or skydome don't work for now. Use emitters.

[Olivier Cugniet]

mihai, can you render from studio ??

[Micha]

I think, NL should play with new toy "studio" after the plugins are updated. Now, nothing works right.

Micha (Rhino user)

[Becco_UK]

Mihai Iliuta: Thank you. It seems apparent that RC is doing different things for different people. Unlike you I can get a preview render without much problem now. Come to a proper though render and nothing - have checked all the variables a few times now.

Anyway glad you have it working, now for the other hundreds to do the same!

[Mihai]

Preview works for me as well, just no sun shows up if you have physical sky selected.

What happens when you press the render button? Nothing happens?

[Becco_UK]

Kris Handley: In the context of the current RC I do not feel my comment was at all harsh, especially as one of testers decided to make a child like response to a reasonable question.

[Becco_UK]

Mihai Iliuta: Nothing at all. I will see what next week brings in the way of updated RC. In the meantime I can get to grips with some of the material functions and if all gets too bad reinstall the older, working Maxwell beta.