[Tyrone Marshall]

Maxwell Render for Cinema4D Public
Software Issue Reporting Process:
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1 - Please ensure that your problem is not already known
because it may have already been solved. Please use the
forum search tools first to check to validate that your problem is
a unknown issue report.

2 - Please verify you are using the current plugin and render
engine version.

3 - Any registered user of the Cinema4D plugin on the
Maxwell Render forum can submit a issue report by posting a new
thread with the following information as a suggestion:

-Operating System and Version
-System hardware
-Description of situation in which the problem occurred
-Can the problem be reproduced in a certain way?
-Provide Rendered Images to illustrate problem if possible
-Provide archived MXS file and any bitmaps if possible
-Report one unique issue per thread
ref: http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4126

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Current Issue Reports:
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Current Plugin Version: Cinemaxwell 0.7c

PC.......Version: Released 04-26-06
MacOS Version: Released 04-26-06

Issues Solved: All solved issues relate to previous plugin
version issue report index. Use the links below when you see
(Version *.*) below for a solved issue to get back to the reference links.

Previous Plugin Version: Cinemaxwell 0.5
ref: http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4110

Previous Plugin Version: Cinemaxwell 0.6
ref: http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... 2860#42860

Previous Plugin Version: Cinemaxwell 0.6b
ref: http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... 3363#43363

Previous Plugin Version: Cinemaxwell 0.6c
ref: http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4723

Previous Plugin Version: Cinemaxwell 0.7b
ref: http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... 5677#95677

0.7 Series Solved Issues:

Issue: C04: OSX Alpha channel Crash (Version 0.7b)
Issue: C05: OSX Zbuffer channel Crash (Version 0.7b)
Issue: N10: OSX Install Initialization (Version 0.7b)
Issue: N12: MXCL Viewer Render Channels Not Created (Version 0.7b)
Issue: N14: OSX Custom MXM Not Working (Version 0.7b)
Issue: N16: OSX Write Error From Plugin When Changing Scene Name (Version 0.7b)

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[Critical] Issues

C01 OSX Update C4D crashes on next start if maxwell dialogue saved in layout [Critical]
ref: http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3294

C03 OSX Update C4D crashes when texture applied to luminance for emitter object [Critical]
ref: http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5128

[Grave] Issues

None to report.

[Pending] Issues

P01 KNOWN Motion Blur [Pending]:

P02 KNOWN Plugin parameters for animation [Pending]:

P03 KNOWN MacOSX "Command Line" options inoperative [Pending]:

P04 KNOWN Polygon Selection tag for multimaterial [Pending]:
ref: http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2334

P05 KNOWN M~R Dialogue Parameters not saved in C4D file [Pending]:
ref: http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2245

P06 KNOWN -Awaiting Retest Propagation to child objects [Pending]:
ref: http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2312
http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... 8359#38359

[Normal] Issues

N03 Awaiting Retest SSS Abs/SSS varying values not detectable [Normal]:
ref: http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... 9119#39119

N04 Sun position and Sun control [Normal]:RETESTING...
ref: http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... highlight=

N05 Attribute Manager Scale Multiplier Issue [Normal]:RETESTING...
ref: http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4335
ref: http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... 7909#57909

N08 Textures Applied to Atom Array Object Not Read by M~R [Normal]:RETESTING...
ref: http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... atom+array

N13 Visibility Dots Ignored -Nurbs/Deformers [Normal]:RETESTING...
ref: http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... 5658#95658

N15 Nurb Objects do not pass material to child objects [Normal]:RETESTING...
ref: http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9835

N17 Cinemaxwell Plugin rotates scene -90 degrees on export to mxs file format [Normal]:RETESTING..
ref: http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... highlight=

N18 Render Dots do not propagate when parent is a child of another parent object [Normal]:RETESTING...
ref: http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... 481#112481
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Maxwell Render for Cinema 4D Wish List:

W04 Cinema 4D camera x and y film offset. This is a
feature present in cinema 4d camera, it allows x and y movement
of the camera without distortion or change in perspective view.
ref:
http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... ilm+offset
http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3370

W06 Maxwell Render Settings controlled from Attributes Manager
ref: http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2342

W08 M~R Dialogue Camera Pulldown Update
ref: http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3472

W09 M~R Environment Object Concept Suggestion
ref: http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... 0508#40508

W10 Editable Geographical Location & Order Suggestion
ref: http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... highlight=

W11 M~R Camera Tag Shutter Speed Range Value:
ref: http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3945

W12 Clip Maps should correllate to C4D Alpha Channel:
ref: http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... 6380#46380

W13 Bitmap Region Render/Render Region Feature

W15 Maxwell-Cinema 4D Physical Sky Integration
ref: http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... 8686#48686

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The index includes links to issue reports found within our Cinema 4D forum.
This will hopefully serve as a easy to find index of user commented issue
reports and wishes as they relate to Cinema 4D plugin. Please
send me an private message if your issue report has not been listed
or information here is in error.

Severity Levels Explanation:


CXX - Critical-----[Crash][Breaks Unrelated Software][Loss of Data]
GXX - Grave------[Incorrect functionality][interface logic][Feature Mostly Unusable]
PXX - Pending---[Known/In progress Fix]
NXX - Normal----[New][Default Severity]
WXX - Wish------[Function Improvement][Missing Feature]

XX - Issue/Bug Assigned Number


Thanks to Thomas An. (Rhinoll Bug List) and Kabe for contributions to the
organization of this report.