[p3tamaxwell]

many thanks for your reply I will try to be as detailed as I can.
Also I cand send a file if the security at yoru work wil llet it come through. (Let meknow if that works easier)

I open Maya
The Maxwell plugin loads succesfully with no errors

I create a poly plane and polyshpere and triangulate them.

Then in the Maxwell Shelf I use the following built in tools just to keep it as simple as possible.

Create Maxwell Camera
Make sure my viewport is looking through it
I select my poly plane
Shelf: Attach Maxwell Object attributes to the selected Objects
Select plane: Shelf: Metal Material:Assign a new metal material to the active objects (The icon displayed in the attribute editor is black for this step... so I have tried maxwell diffuse shader also)
(Same steps for Sphere)
I then create a poly triangulated sphere assign a standard D65 Intensity 100 Emitter to it for light.

Then I click the render globals tab and set my rendering time to 5 minutes.

Then I do a batch render and it says Rendering with Maxwell

Rendering completed: See console for more information:

Yet no image or MXI output from the Output tab of the render globals is found.

When I check the Maya Render log it says everthing is OK until the last line....

Error: The renderer Maxwell is not regestired yet:

BUT I have a valid license and it loads fine and renders from Maxwell Studio fine.....

Any ideas???