[DerickC]

I'm having a problem where all my scenes with either Image Based Environments or Physical Skies render fine in my Maya preview render, but not when I render using the Maxwell Network app nor on our render farm using Qube.

Any scene with just an HDR or a Physical Sky simply fails to render; any scene with an emitted light and an HDR or Physical sky only renders the scene with the emitted light - as if the HDR or Physical sky were disabled. I've gotten the same results in Maya 2012 & 2013, in Maxwell 2.6 & 2.7.20, on both windows and Mac OS 10.7 & 10.8

Old scenes that used HDRs or Phys. Skies work fine when I submit the old .MXS's to our render farm, but If I open the Maya project, and re-export, they fail. I've tried on multiple machines and multiple OSs.



Any help or troubleshooting advice greatly appreciated.
-Derick

[Mihai]

What do the IBL paths/settings show if you open one of these failing MXS in Maxwell Studio?

[DerickC]

What do the IBL paths/settings show if you open one of these failing MXS in Maxwell Studio?

It seems to come in with no environment whatsoever, whether I choose IBL or Physical Sun & Sky:



Is there another place to look for the IBL paths/settings?

-Derick

[Mihai]

Ok, could you please post this in the Maya forum? It seems a problem related to older scenes and the plugin, does it happen also on new scenes created and exported from Maya?

[DerickC]

Ok, could you please post this in the Maya forum? It seems a problem related to older scenes and the plugin, does it happen also on new scenes created and exported from Maya?

I've tried it on both Maya 2012 & 2013 (current Service Packs of both) and Maxwell Render 2.7.20, 2.7.10, & 2.6.0 on both Mac OS 10.7 & 10.8, as well as Windows 7. (I've done a lot of troubleshooting)

I'll also post this in the Maya forum.

Thanks,

-Derick