[Mihnea Balta]

Running Maxwell in 32-bit mode wouldn't have helped anyway, it's the crashing application that's supposed to be run in 32-bit, which in this case is Maya, and that's 32-bit only anyway. Until we release the fix, you can disable reading back the image in the plug-in preferences (window -> rendering editors -> maxwell).

[cgbeige]

ok - I'll do that.

[cgbeige]

ok - now that I did that, Maya is hiding when I hit render and it can't be shown again...

[cgbeige]

i restored my prefs from an older copy and the window hiding stopped. weird.

[Mihnea Balta]

I tried to debug this problem, but I can't get Maya to crash with 32-bit TIFF files. Can you give me more details about the set-up, like resolution, which channels you were rendering etc.? Or better yet, could you share one of the rendered images which causes Maya to crash when reading it back?

[cgbeige]

the crash happens when you have a missing texture link and the render fails in Maxwell.app. When you return to Maya, it will crash. If you can't get that to happen, I'll post a scene where it happens to me.

[Mihnea Balta]

Got it, the image library we're using crashes on OSX when given a file which doesn't exist. It will be fixed in the patch.

[cgbeige]

great - thanks.

[Mihnea Balta]

We've also fixed the issue with 32-bit images coming in darker in the render view, it was caused by the lack of gamma correction when converting to 8-bit for display. The rendered file should be ok, though.

[cgbeige]

gimme gimme