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Pretty sure this may be a bug
.....finding that the date in environment settings will very often change and update by itself.
It either updates to a date several days forward of the original setting or to the following year as well for older projects.
Is it necessary to start a new render with the current date to avoid this ?
I often use a setup project that could be from 2010 and this will start updating (not only once) which causes problems specially if I want a matching sun/shadow situation

Perhaps we need a date lock option ?

Pipcleo,
that sounds bizarre! We typically use several different Sunlight Systems within a file for different cameras within the scene.
Is it possible that you may have clicked the "save scene" option, which I think saves a particular setup of camera lights, etc ?

Otherwise I would say this is as strange as some of the network rendering errors we are encountering at the moment. I hope NextLimit have been keeping on top of bugs, it seems like every update we saw over the last few months was about support for a some new 3d software, but no updates on bug fixes or new features !

Anyway, good luck with it.

Jesper

I've noticed this too, and it is one of the last things I check before hitting render.

This behaviour occurs when:

a) opening an old project
b) importing a mxs file, sometimes it takes the time and date of the imported file, sometimes just the date or the time
c) when changing the lighting from sky to another option, and back again
d) just randomly

Would be nice if it stayed as set, but I think its just one of those Maxwell things that you have to keep your eye on!

Cheers,
Bim

Mac Octo 2.8, 10Gb RAM, OSX 10.6.8

flower wrote: b) importing a mxs file, sometimes it takes the time and date of the imported file, sometimes just the date or the time

yes, i noticed this too... really annoying