[messire]

Hello,
I'm pretty dumb with how to make my own preview scene. I would like to modify the floor.mxs scene, because its not so easy to use for architecture, the 10cm wide sample is 10 times smaller than what i think it should be. For floors such as stones, wood floors etc, a 1m wide field of view would be much more interesting. I am fighting with the studio in trying to make this bigger without success.
Has someone such a test scene ( the floor one, or a similar kind ) with bigger field of view ? If you could share it it would be MUCH appreciated
I have not yet understood how to make my own ( and set it to work) from sketchup and studio
Thnx much!
Nils

[Half Life]

Brodie posted a nice tutorial about that here:

http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... 57#p337957

But if you want to post what you've got so far I might be able to help iron out the kinks.

Best,
Jason.

[messire]

Hello HL
thnx, downloaded the preview he made, they are pretty usefull indeed!
I have understood now how to make my own preview, but, as with his or MR's, after I use them in mxed and save the mxm, the preview scene is not saved ( despite restarting mxed...) is it a way to save the new previews with the new scenes? is it a bug?
thnx
Nils

[Half Life]

It certainly should save the new preview render as well as any changes you have made to the material -- that is very odd... are you using the "save" or "save as" command or the "save and close" button?

Best,
Jason.

[Half Life]

It just occurred to me that you might be doing these in studio -- in which case you should either "export MXM" or "Extract from MXS" (if you want to do them all at once).

Best,
Jason.

[messire]

No am simply doing this inside mxed..
1. select scene, change scene
2. refresh preview
3. save ( or save as ( tried both)
shut mxed

open mxed
preview on the previous .mxm stays the same ( the old scene)..

strange! any hint?
N

[Half Life]

That would seem to be a bug, it works fine on mine... which OS are you using?

Best,
Jason.

[messire]

Win 7 64bits / 2.5.1 mxed
i'll try to reproduce this on the mac os to see if its a bug!
normally if i recall, just "save" the mxm updates the preview to the latest used and calculated...
Nils

[messire]

seems a bug, it works under mac osX version, but does not under win 7 / 64 bits !!
nils

[Half Life]

You might also check to see if you need any special permissions under Win 7 to save -- but that seems unlikely.

Anybody else use this OS care to confirm this is a bug?

Best,
Jason.

[numerobis]

for me it works with win7 x64 and v2.5.1. no problems saving mxm with different previews.

[messire]

weird stuff, not sure what to do... reinstall?
thnx
Nils

[Half Life]

Yeah, that would be my guess -- but I've not seen that problem before.

Best,
Jason.