[jrandom]

WOOHOO I guess this means I can stop skiing and get back to work

I knew you guys would have a biggy after such a long period of silence!

Cheers

[lllab]

yes the -hd option- is it back?

cheers
stefan

[3dtrialpractice]

WO this is an AMAZING DAY!!
I JUST saw the new announcment and WOWOWWOWOW!
I flipped in my chaiR~! i wwnet crazy screaming in to office!
Essp after seeing the standalone MATERIAL edito and the maya screen grab!!YESSSSSS!!!!
the simon video was cooL!
this post just rocks, I just hope i dont have a heart attack before its realeased im so Exited!

truely has been awsome to be part of this amazing maxwell experience!
Just amazing
have to go take cold shower now!

thanks NL and mike for this update!

[Maxer]

Good announcement Mike, isn't it a good feeling to come to the forum and have positive feedback. We really need to see stuff like this on a continuous basis or at the very least a progress report every week.

As far as the cooperative rendering feature goes, do you know if it can be run as a service in Windows? The way my farm is set up it feature is a must and from what Maya has told me this was something that should be working by the release of 1.0.

Again very nice job

[jonathan löwe]

as already said on page 1: very nice announcement, looks really promising!

but for me still the most important point is the "caustics/sunlight -behind-glas-problem".

what does

. Sun caustics behind glass improved and the team is working on it.

as stated by tom, mean?

how can it be improved? is it not more like working or not working? or is the meanig of this statement, that it only works in some situations?

i am looking forward to any statement concerning this problem, because as many people here, i am mostly involved in arch-vis-work...

no matter, what the answer will be, nice announcement

jonathan

[mverta]

I swear those weekly progress reports would be about as exciting as a tax audit.

• Mon: Sun stopped working with this morning's release.
  Tue: Sun fixed last night, rendering dispersion test.
  Wed: still rendering dispersion test.
  Thur: ...can't install the new update because the power went out during the dispersion test. Must re-render.
  Fri: Sun stopped working with this morning's release but it's fixed again.
  
  Sat: Well, Maxwellians, it's been another exciting week of Maxwell testing: The sun broke twice but was fixed both times, and dispersion's looking cool.

Isn't there something good on TV?

_Mike

[JDHill]

Wed: still rendering dispersion test.

[mverta]

I knew you'd like that one...

_Mike

[Maxer]

what about running Maxwell as a service in windows?

[mverta]

Don't know about that Maxer, but I'll ask.

_Mike

[JDHill]

Hi Maxer,

Windows Services are very specific to Windows NT (+), and with Maxwell's cross-platform nature, I would suspect that this would be one of the last features to be implemented. I am curious as to your particular configuration, why is it required for Maxwell to be run as a Service?

~JD

[Maxer]

Hi Maxer,

Windows Services are very specific to Windows NT (+), and with Maxwell's cross-platform nature, I would suspect that this would be one of the last features to be implemented. I am curious as to your particular configuration, why is it required for Maxwell to be run as a Service?

~JD

I don't want to hijack the thread so I'll just say that 90% of my farm is desktop machines that are only accessible after work. We have a program where I can enter the number of CPU's I need to work on a job, the computer will go around and start up that number of PC's once the machine has either been logged off of or shut down for the night. Once up and running at the login screen the only way to use the computer is to run the programs in the background as a service, since logging into 100+ computers is crazy, programs that run as a service is a must.

[lllab]

and pleeease mike, whats about the -hd option?

as i get no answer i guess its not yet working or you dont know...
..could you cear this too for us?

thanks:-)
stefan

[JDHill]

..ahhh...running before login...I understand perfectly.

~JD

[end of thread hijack]

[mverta]

Don't know about the -hd option, stefan. It hasn't come up for testing yet.

_Mike