[lllab]

"constructive criticism"

...yes thats the word!
at lets try it:-)

cheers
stefan

[Rochr]

hey Rochr,

i want to apologize. i think i was a bit harsh.
it is only because in my opinion the whole communication atmosphere is still not good (after the big RC clash)
and i don´t agree that nagging long enough will lead to better cinemaxwell results. (and i have been here long enough to follow the whole process)
it is a good thing to criticize - even heavily. but always strike the right note.
and compared with internal relationships in an office for example - if the atmosphere is good it is good for the productivity as well.
(this has to be improved maybe from both sides - agreed)
so there have been mistakes and i think the workflow could be optimized, but in my eyes constructive criticism is the way to go. and always be fair. i think NL has done a lot, not always in their estimated time (and o.k. the cinema plugin maybe did not get the proper attention). but their way to go now is working in the background and release the things when they are ready without big announcements, which is fine.

uuups now this got a little longer then intended, but i hope you get the message.

cheers mate
michael

Thanks Michael.
There´s no need for an apology, i also came out harder than intended, and i´m sorry about that. I don´t mean to give you guys a hard time, you´ve tried to help me out the few times i´ve asked questions here.

It´s just a tad irritating, when i finally do come up with a nice way to incorporate this software(in my case 1.0) into my work, then NL alter some of the features, and i´m pretty much back on square one again.
I´ve done a few renders with 1.0 that came out nicely. The only thing i was waiting for was the hd-support so that i could render out highres stuff.
Unfortunatly i´m not kidding about the camera suddenly loosing focus(even with camera tags), and some of the scenes i had in mind for Maxwell is massive, so i really need a renderer i can count on. This wasn´t a problem in 1.0, but i´m afraid i don´t trust 1.1 at all.

Anyway...enough about that.

I think most of us here are in agreement in several issues.
Better workflow and better communication atmosphere definitely wouldn´t hurt.

[lllab]

well, yes i liked the v1 plugin also more thatn i like the v1.1.

from thius point we share opinions;-)

cheers
stefan

[Rochr]

Just a quick note about the "vanishing scene" error.

Trying to render out a quick scene of our new house, and the first render looks ok.
Trying to render out the front side, and it looks ok.
I stop the render safely to make a few changes on some of the models, press render and all the objects are completely gone.
I´ve even tried replacing the camera, but to no use.

But i also noticed that while the voxelisation took some time with the first two renders, now it goes up to 100% in about a second.
Even the first camera view, which i haven´t even touched, comes out completely blank now.
So much for trying to make 1.1 to work. If this is not an error, i really don´t know what is.