[homegrown]

I'm new to 3ds (from formz) so sorry if this is a dumb question. but i put the maxwell dlr file into the plug in directory and i cant see the menu for some reason. if i go to the plug in manager it says maxwell is loaded...but I still cant see the maxwell menu. in formz it just pops up, in 3ds do I have to load it from somewhere? Thanks.

[lsega77]

you just have to choose maxwell as your renderer. by default scanline is set as the material and production renderer.

hit f10 --> collapse all the drop downs so you can see the assign renderer tab (click on the grey bar at the top). click on the small box with the three dots [...] (ie browse) and a pop up should...well...pop up showing you a list of renderers currently installed in max. select maxwellrender, hit ok. If you like click the 'save as defaults' button in the assign renderer tab so that max uses maxwell for rendering and material shading by default. Click your render tab at the top of the 'render scene' pop up (window you're in) and viola you got maxwell.

hope that helps.

Luis

[homegrown]

Thats exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!