[Marlamuth]

We use the high settings because we need to know exactly where highlights fall, how maps fit etc.

A nice thing would be if it was possible to do a blow up in fire. Then we could zoom in without loosing angle or focal length.

[itsallgoode9]

Then we could zoom in without loosing angle or focal length.

THIS!!!! I brought this up when fire got released, but it kinda got the "well why would you need that, just zoom in" response. For product rendering, this is a major drawback of fire. It is quite useful without the feature but this would this would make it REALLLLLYYYYY useful.


Anyway, back on topic, this quality setting crash has been basically made it impossible to work as of late, so I'm glad the issue was found out!! Although for me, the setting is 4 or higher causes a crash, not 5.

[Half Life]

Sounds like something neeeds to be added to the wish list

BTW, out of curiosity how much ram do you have installed?

Best,
Jason.

[itsallgoode9]

I guess that would be the correct place to post that I always forget about the wishlist.

Not sure if you were asking me or Marlamuth about the ram, but I have 24 gigs.

[Half Life]

I've got 12 gigs and I didn't get a crash at quality level 4 but I did get one at quality level 5... this is the first time I tried that, I always have left it at the default of 3 which I guess is why I never had any issues.

Best,
Jason.

[Seggy]

If anyone else has a problem with HDR Light Studio and Maxwell Studio 2.6.10 please do contact mark@lightmap.co.uk, I have a solution for you.
This didn't get picked up in our testing of the plugin with Maxwell Studio 2.6.10 here, sorry this got through.... thanks for everyones help who has contacted us directly and who posted here.
If you want action, always contact us on HDR Light Studio integration issues.... we are very motivated to fix the problem as fast as possible and to replicate it.

Thanks for the demo video too Jason, the workflow in 2.6.10 is so much better. Super easy to use now with Maxwell Studio.

[Mihai]

We have updated the installer in the download area to fix this bug. Please download and install again, either the full install or just the patch. It is still named 2.6.10 but has a newer upload date.

[Half Life]

Yeah! the update rocks -- I went all the way to quality level 10 with not even a hiccup.

Best,
Jason.

[mashium123]

i am so sure, that this is one of the dumbest questions around:
after a long-term production i upgraded the release version to 2.6.10.
now, for the next production round this hdri plug-in seems very handy and i wanted to give it a try.
but the demo that is opened in studio seems to be hdri light studio v2.
i ordered and received a demo of v3 but that's just the stand-alone product, it seems.

how would i be able to try the v3 plug-in within studio? would i need to buy it first, to get access to v3?
i also couldn't find any v3 for the hdri light studio plug on next limit's site.
or did i miss an update for maxwell 2.6.10?

thankful for any info.

[Mihai]

The Maxwell Studio plug-in included in the install is for V2 of HDR Light Studio. You could try contacting them and asking for a v3 demo version of the plug-in.

[mashium123]

The Maxwell Studio plug-in included in the install is for V2 of HDR Light Studio. You could try contacting them and asking for a v3 demo version of the plug-in.

i ordered the v3 pro-version this morning.
i believe there will be a way to integrate the v3-plug into studio, no?

[Half Life]

V3 works great in Studio now -- there just isn't a demo that comes with the install package yet.

Best,
Jason.

[mashium123]

meanwhile the links to the software have arrived, i installed the parts and am now waiting for the license key files to be generated, which can take up to 24 hours, so it says in the pdf.
i have to say, installation of the stand-alone and also the plug-in for studio was flawless.

the other thing to be admitted: it was your videos that convinced me to buy this software. what you're showing seemed so 'easy' and flexible.
well, this and the fact, that it seems to fit quite perfectly into my next job of course
so, thank you for your efforts, jason.

mesut.

[Half Life]

You are quite welcome -- I hope you'll love it as much as I do

Best,
Jason.

[mashium123]

just to close my thought here, saying that the final licenses for the package have arrived.
i've been playing around here and there - everything works as expected.

to comment the crash-experiences i read about here in this thread: while i had been waiting for the keys i played around with the demo-version (v2) and then also, after the purchase, the yet unlicensed version of v3. in both scenarios i experienced crashes of studio very frequently.
then i read mihai's line about the installer having been updated and uploaded, i downloaded that one and installed it.
the keys arrived, i started playing around (for about 3 hours now) and i had no crash at all since then.

what a great tool - it should be opened for more 3d packages.