[adri]

Not used MW for months because of crashes.

Tried again tonight. C4D -> Crashes on a super simple scene with just one material applied.

VRay/C4D AR3 it is then. It's such a pity because I often want to use an unbiased rendering engine but this is just completely unreliable!!!



Adri

[Mr. Gog]

Been using MW render without major problems...for months.

Check your versions and installation...

[adri]

Just installed the latest plugin and the latest MW.

Why should I have to do anything more to get a simple cube to render out?

It isn't the kind of experience that makes you consider doing any work with it!!!

thx for the reply and good luck with MW.

Adri

[Mr. Gog]

Lot of lucky already...people say many good things about our renders.
No reason to look back for now.

Maybe you have two copies of maxwell installed on the same machine!

[pipcleo]

I have to say also that I'm getting near flawless operability now with 1.7.1
on 5 different macs , including the latest.
Using studio, but admittedly no network rendering

[Mr. Gog]

No problems here with network render!

[lchest]

using 1.7.1 with 3ds Max 2009 & its quite reliable. I do get crashes now & then, but not too often (depending on the scene). I get a kind of "warning" as when the render dialog is open, suddenly the top tab "General Settings` switches to `Simulens`, so I have two Simulens tabs instead of one. At that point I know its going to crash so I do a quick save & then it bombs out immediately.
Main problem is I have 7 quad core machines & with all these working on a single image its still way, way, way too slow to be usable on most projects.

One thing to be careful of is your scene scale & any objects you have in your scene that are massive - this will cause the render to fail (as was happening to me)

OOPs - sorry. Just noticed this is a Mac thread

[mgroeteke]

call me biased, but it's the truth: maxwell is one of the most stable apps on my macs! working with formz and lightwave, so i can't tell for the C4D plugin, though.

so i guess: maybe there are some problems with installation? what hardware and software versions are you using? did you check for doubles of any maxwell components, even in the trash?

cheers

markus

[Mr. Gog]

It's very stable on C4d, too.
VectorWorks (modeling), Cinema 4d and Maxwell. (workflow).
No complaints.
We have: 3 Octa Macs 2.8, with 10 GB of ram each one.
Also 13 imac's core 2 duo. We use all for Network Rendering.
Maxwell doesn't cause problems...very stable.

[cgbeige]

There are bugs with texturing in Maya (black textures) and the network co-op rendering simply doesn't work for Mac OS X (see the other threads) but as a new user moving from Mental Ray, I'm still happy overall. The support could be much better. I had to contact my sales rep to get service and my queries about my forum account were tossed into a black hole. This needs to change.