[sampson]

I've come across a modo/maxwell problem that i've not seen before. I've been sub-d modelling cogs for a clockwork style image and wanted to do a quick test render in maxwell. So i froze the geometry, triangulated it & exported it to .obj format as i usually do for maxwell renders.

Now, the geometry imports fine in to maxwell & can be exported back out of maxwell as .obj but every time i try to save off the mxs i get an error message saying it cannot save the .mxs file (no other info) Also if i hit render it fails with the same error.

Has anyone else had this problem?

thanks,

[-Adrian]

Never had such an error. Have you tried deleting the mesh/object in MXST and safe then? Maybe it's not the mesh that causes the problem.

[Mihai]

Does the object have any strange characters in it? Try perhaps renaming it and save it.

[sampson]

Thanks for the suggestions, ...it seems to be something quirky with the geometry & i can randomly repeat it with similar models - but i have managed to get a few out that work so i guess i'll just re-do it all and check it at regular intervals in maxwell to see where the problems occur.

thanks again.