[gadzooks]

I have downloaded Modo sp4 and the new maxwell to modo plugin. I completely uninstalled both Modo and the Maxwell plugin before installing both updates. I then restarted my machine and loaded both pieces of software. Now when ever I click Fire inside of Modo it crashes the application? Any ideas as to why? The Maxwell material editor works fine via the plug-in, it's just fire.

[Marton Day8]

But it has worked with the previous plugin version(Maxwell plugin for Modo R2 ver 2.51000) and with modo SP3. Am I right?

Have you tried to clear (or temporary move) the modo501.CFG file to check how it works with the default modo settings?

Márton

[gadzooks]

But it has worked with the previous plugin version(Maxwell plugin for Modo R2 ver 2.51000) and with modo SP3. Am I right?

You are Correct it has worked in the past. I will remove the config file and see if that works. Marton removed the config file and it still crashes?

[gadzooks]

OK Marton I got it to work. I deleted the config file and reopened modo. Once inside modo I created a simple sphere and then via the plugin i opened it in studio, which it did! Then I Re-launched fire and it's now working.I will let you know if the problem crops back up. I do however have on question. I scaled the sphere but fire did not pick that up, I had to manually reload the scene in fire for it to see the change. Per the release notes i thought fire would automatically see this change?

[Twistedsheep]

If you scaled the sphere by its polygons, edges, or vertices, the fire window will need to be manually refreshed. But if you scaled the sphere in item mode, or translated/rotated it, that should be picked up.

Mesh operations where you actually move the points of the mesh are what requires a refresh.

And in regards to your crash error, I had to ditch my config file too, when I first stated using the new plugin. Modo likes to store a lot of stuff in that file, and every time you close modo, it appends more stuff to it.

I actually marked mine as read only just to prevent Modo from slowly filling the file.

[Marton Day8]

Hello gadzooks,

If you still have the original modo config file, please send it to me, maybe I can read out the source of the FIRE crashes.