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new plug: emitters
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 10:35 am
by mmhnemo
Hi guys,
i've been toying with the new plugin for a little and could not get an emitter to work whatever i tried.
I used the plugin presets with luminance or temperature, i used a c4d material with luminance and i tried a custom MXM material emitter.
I tried with and w/o multilight, in conjunction with skydome/phys sky and without these.
All render completely black objects.
Anyone else experiencing this or knows whats going wrong?
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 12:08 pm
by Maya69
i use emiter MXM with plug-in
i have no probleme, but i just make a quick test
Invisible Emitters
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 2:24 pm
by shaun
I have an invisible emitter the size of the glass doors with another emitter outside acting as a sun and a flash emitter. When rendered with "preview" engine result is predictable however when rendered with "RS1", the sun emitter's rays comes through however the other emitters become disabled and no light from them is seen. The same behavior is in Studio.
The new plug-in is terrible and I was hoping for more speed.
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:31 pm
by mmhnemo
@Maya69
you are using the Plugin for Maya i suppose?
@Shaun
Compared to what we had before this plugin is gold in my eyes. And the plug doesn't have anything to do with the performance of the renderer.
We are still not at 100% usability but i'd estimate a solid 70%
So i gather that I am the only one having problems with emitters via the C4D plugin? *sigh* more testing then - but i'm out of ideas
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:54 pm
by Carl007
Maybe obvious, but have you checked the normal direction?
Have you done the "reset system" function?
Does it work with the sky option enabled?
I am on c4d r10 UB version, and most of it works fine (71%)
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 8:39 pm
by Maya69
No
i work now with c4d
Why because i work with vectorworks and i have a lot of client work with allplan
for workflow is better witn c4d
i work with c4d
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 9:37 pm
by thomas lacroix
you can send me the file if you want philippe, i'll give it a try
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 11:49 pm
by mmhnemo
Well who knows - next day i turn on my computer and every emitter test i did renders ok
thanks for your assistance
Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 6:56 am
by Eric Lagman
Yes I am having issues with custom mxm emitters myself. If I have an object higher up in my object tree with a custom emitter it gets applied to any other objects below it with a custom mxm tag that is different. Also I am getting crashes when applying the same custom mxm to objects right next to each other in the tree. Seems to be couple of issues so far with custom mxm's.