[macray]

Hi, after installing the newest plugin last week I was wondering where the renderbutton has been moved to - and why?

I found something like it but wtf is render AV and render SV? What is the difference? I don't seem to be able to find a difference.

Where I found a difference is something else: the maxwell options.
There are maxwell "Render Default Settings" and there is a Maxwell "~.~ Settings Object". Both seem to do the same and I don't really see the difference, except I can only find a render button at the "~.~ Settings Object".

Is this the only way to make it more complicated or can you find another one?
I'd prefer one dialog for Maxwell, that I can use like we had it in all the previous versions - dock it as a palette next to my attribute manager and click render there (or better even to find the maxwell dialog implemented in the cinema render settings and also to have a clickable Render button there). The "~.~ Settings Object" is to save the maxwell settings for the specific scene, but can't you solve this in another way?

And will there be a manual for the Cinemaxwell somewhen this year so I might find a way through the jungle and also all the demo-downloader have a slight idea what to do and how to render something?

You get more and more away from the idea that maxwell is easy-to-use if you keep the interface as it is at the moment!

I like the results maxwell produces but it's getting more and more complicated to use.

[dyarza]

Render Active View will render whatever viewport you have active in C4D. Render Selected View as Render View will render whatever viewport you have designated in C4D as "Use as Render View"

This comes in very handy when working with multiple cameras and gets rid of the camera selection (or lack of it) problem.

The ~.~ Settings Object allows you to save the settings with the C4D file so you can come back to it later and not need to enter everything in again.

Hope this helps.

[macray]

if I have the ~.~ Settings Object and the maxwell pproperties dialog open and different settings - which ones will be used if there are different settings used?

[dyarza]

Good question.

It seems that the dialog is for the default settigns that populate the ~.~ Settings Object. I would assume the settings object will override the defeult preferences box but I haven't tried it.

Honestly, I saw the settings object when the new plug-in came out and I haven't opened the preferences box again.

[macray]

Okay, thanks.