[Luis Abreu]

I used to work with max 8 but i transfer to max 9 but when i go to open a previous file in maxwell from max 8.......max 9 CRASH?????

Why this happen?

[wr1nkles]

you might want to try and re-installl your plugin. this happened to me a couple of times before i performed a re-install. after the procedure it all went back to normal.

cheers,

nik

[Luis Abreu]

i did that right now and didn´t work

any other suggestion?

[Fernando Tella]

Maybe it is a file you made with an older plugin?

Try this:

-Open a new session with max 9;
-Change renderer to Maxwell;
-Merge the problematic file;
-If all goes well check at the material editor > material browser all the materials of the scene and replace any one called "dsa" or any that is not Maxwell or Standard.
-If all materials are ok you will be able to save without problems.

[Luis Abreu]

i tried that in the afternoon but crashed when merging the file!

[Luis Abreu]

by the way...i´m using max in a mac pro quad xeon with windows

[Bogdan Coroi]

Before importing in Max9, try removing the cameras from Max8 scenes.

[Luis Abreu]

when i merged the scene i didn´t choose the cameras and it works but when i assign materials to layers it crash!

[Bogdan Coroi]

If you could share a simplified scene, I could try to see what's going on.

[marsupilami]

According to Autodesk documentation, Max9 is not supported on Macs running Windows, at least this is what I recall reading when I installed it to test.

This is not a plug-in problem then...

Thomas

[marsupilami]

And here is the text from "System Requirements":

System Requirements
Microsoft® Windows Vista®
Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional (SP2 or higher) (32-bit version)
Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 (64-bit version)
Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 6 or higher
DirectX® 9.0c* (required)
OpenGL® (optional)
Intel® Pentium® IV or AMD Athlon® XP or higher processor (32-bit version)
Intel EM64T, AMD Athlon 64 or higher, AMD Opteron® processor (64-bit version)
512 MB RAM; 1 GB recommended (32-bit version)
1 GB RAM (4 GB recommended) (64-bit version)
500 MB swap space (2 GB recommended)
Hardware-accelerated OpenGL and Direct3D supported
Microsoft Windows–compliant pointing device (optimized for Microsoft® IntelliMouse®)
DVD-ROM drive
* Some features of 3ds Max Design 2009 are only enabled when used with graphics hardware that supports Shader Model 3.0 (Pixel Shader and Vertex Shader 3.0). Check with your manufacturer to determine if your hardware supports Shader Model 3.0.






Note: Apple® computers based on Intel processors and running Microsoft operating systems are not currently supported.

bad news for the moment, but definetly not a maxwell problem.

[Luis Abreu]

but m3ds max 8 run perfectly!

[Fernando Tella]

Try assigning a Maxwell material to all the objects at the same time (not to layers) and save. Re-open and assign materials as you would normally do. If you could save the file I think everything would be fine afterwards.

[Luis Abreu]

now it crash when closing the max!!!!!!!1

[marsupilami]

I am waiting for the "3DS Design" license, but it looks that it is not a good idea to try it on a Mac

I hope it runs fine on a "evil empire" box running Vista 64 bit though....

I hope Autodesk finds a solution rather quickly!