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maxwell & 9.6 crashes often / 9.5 stable
Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 6:09 pm
by lllab
Hi there,
for me the c4d plugin was quite stable until 9.5, now in 9.6 it crashes. after some testing it seems to be maxwell that cuases the crashes.
it happens mostly when i change a camera, or move camera and then try to render it. or when i switch from one to another cam.
also when i try to use a bitmap texture it sometimes freezes when i try to render or it crashes the whole app.
i cannot nail it down yet, but i guess maxon has chaged something that the plugin doesnt like.
is this a know thing?
Tyron do you experience this? are there others having this?
please no overall c4d- complains, only 9.6 related bugs i mean...
cheers
stefan
Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 4:05 am
by beppeg
No problems here with 9.603 on mac osx ppc
Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 4:59 am
by big K
yes, i can confirm that cinema 9.6 is not as stable as the versions before.
but this is not only with maxwell, but with other plugins as well.
there must have been some changes on the plugin integration.
michael
btw i am on windows
Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 5:35 am
by Kabe
Of course each new version changes things, and some of the changes
break assumptions that have worked in earlier versions.
Especially when working with SDKs the golden rule is to stick to the
SDK way of doing things and to avoid shortcuts. People who follow these
rules only have to adjust their plugins at major changes.
The Cinemaxwell plugin - at least the one we know - doesn't care much
about the Cinema concepts in the parts we see, and I think it's safe to
assume that the parts we don't see are not designed any better.
Kabe
Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 10:06 am
by Carl007
Who is responsible for the Cinemaxwell plugin?
Are there anything we can do to help "them" out, maybe sign up for a beta test?
Re: maxwell & 9.6 crashes often / 9.5 stable
Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 10:56 am
by Tyrone Marshall
lllab wrote:Hi there,
for me the c4d plugin was quite stable until 9.5, now in 9.6 it crashes. after some testing it seems to be maxwell that cuases the crashes.
it happens mostly when i change a camera, or move camera and then try to render it. or when i switch from one to another cam.
also when i try to use a bitmap texture it sometimes freezes when i try to render or it crashes the whole app.
i cannot nail it down yet, but i guess maxon has chaged something that the plugin doesnt like.
is this a know thing?
Tyron do you experience this? are there others having this?
please no overall c4d- complains, only 9.6 related bugs i mean...
cheers
stefan
No crashes of the kind you describe Illab. I cannot remember if you are on PC or MAC. I just got back in town after about eight days, I will be catching up to things in the forum soon!
Is this with any scene, a particular scene file, can it be repeated irregardless of system retarts, removal of cinema plugins except maxwell and etc. ?
Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 11:03 am
by lllab
i am on PC winxp sp2
machine is quadcore opteron 275, 4gb ram
after restrat etc tha same after reinstalling maxwell the same,
after removing the plugin and reinstalling it the same.
i use the xpresso maxwell camera all the time, maybe it is that.
also when i try to use bitmap texures it get crashy.
i have to finish my competition, will test then more...
cheers
stefan
Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 7:58 am
by lllab
it seems that the plugin doesnt empty th ram after rendering.
it renders first time, uses lest say1.6 gig. then i render the same again,
it STARTS with 1.6 and goes to 2gig, with the 3d render it goes toward 3gig it gives out of memory or crashes....
some memory leak cause of 9.6 changes?
cheers
stefan
Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 12:23 am
by lllab
when c4d crashes it says plugin maxwell cuased crash.
it is the same with final render stage2.
there must something that maxon has changed both external plugins doesnt like very much.
tyron i hope you see this here...
cheers
sterfan
Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 11:57 pm
by lllab
tyron,
are you here?
i will at the moment reinstall all my c4d studio plus plugins and see if the problems stay.
for me since 9.6 update it was almost unable to work. something in my workflow it doesnt like.
i alsways use the maxwellcamera expression here from the forum, which is great. it seems it doesnt like that i copy and paste them in files. i have to create a new one from the libary,hmm.
i alos get out of memory messages veryoften, each rendering adds memory and doesnt clear,so after 3-4 renderings i have to restart cinema.
i post as it will be after clean install.
are you already testing a new plugin?
cheers
stefan