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How do you get Zclip to work with the max plugin?

*I also posted this in the max plugin forum but figured this one is frequented more often*

bump...hello?

You have to:
Select the camera
Go to parameters / clipping planes
Select clip manually
Set your desired clip distances

and... render

I've done just that and all it's rendering is the sky. Maybe I am understanding the planes backwards, but it's showing it correctly in my viewport.

Well, if we could get a successful download from the single server they've got running, you might be able to get some help from the rest of us......

Wait! Did I forget to mention that they only have ONE SERVER to handle all of the downloads?

Hyperballad wrote: I've done just that and all it's rendering is the sky. Maybe I am understanding the planes backwards, but it's showing it correctly in my viewport.

same here. when clipping is checked (no matter what clipping values), the scene renders completely empty, as if there were no objects in it (even though they are listed correctly by the console).

rivoli wrote:

Hyperballad wrote: I've done just that and all it's rendering is the sky. Maybe I am understanding the planes backwards, but it's showing it correctly in my viewport.

same here. when clipping is checked (no matter what clipping values), the scene renders completely empty, as if there were no objects in it (even though they are listed correctly by the console).

Sounds like a bug to me........hopefully not though.

Michael check your PM

well, I was wrong. it does work, but the near clip looks totally messed up, at least here. it actually clips much farther than it should, and it's not consistent with the viewport indicator.

How the heck did you get it to work?

I still get a blank sky no matter where its located.

try to set the near clip to a very low value, something really close to zero. if you take it down to 0 it should render fine with no clipping at all, I tried setting it to something like a few centimeters and it actually clipped like 3 meters away.
but it worked.

haha yea that worked.

That's definitely a new bug. The clipping planes are not represented at all accurately in the Max viewport.

It shows it clipping the object at around 400 but doesn't properly render unless its set to 2.5

I haven't used this at all..just going out on a limb here..

but is there a conversion issue? Maybe you are in imperial...and they think Metric (mm..cm...m)? or like Rivoli...maybe you are working in m and they think mm? yours is a multiple of 10.

Just curious if the 2.5 is a factor of 400 somehow.

ps.

I'm working in feet right now and my model is to scale. So it shouldn't be a problem?

Wouldn't the camera automatically fix to what your scene scale is anyway? Doesn't make sense to me.

200 was generic max units. Same with 2.5

sorry for the confusion.

thought about it, but it all seems to be working fine as long as scale is concerned.