[florianpiento]

Im in the mid of doing projects that have SSS, at first i was thinking that the upgrade will affect some color that might mess up the current project. But after trying it up (With 2.6 standby so to fall back), it works well and SSS rendered up cleaner and faster. : ) All colors are pretty well maintain correctly and close.

Thanks for the quick answer.

That would be great if it could render faster... Unfortunately I didn't keep my 2.6.0 install. Is there anywhere I could still get it in case ?

[Tan Boon Meng]

Im in the mid of doing projects that have SSS, at first i was thinking that the upgrade will affect some color that might mess up the current project. But after trying it up (With 2.6 standby so to fall back), it works well and SSS rendered up cleaner and faster. : ) All colors are pretty well maintain correctly and close.

Thanks for the quick answer.

That would be great if it could render faster... Unfortunately I didn't keep my 2.6.0 install. Is there anywhere I could still get it in case ?

Actually i meant the SSS clear up faster, as for how fast the speed is compare with the older one im not sure. : ) I think is wise to check up the lastest one first before using it completely as you are in the final rendering stage.

[florianpiento]

Yes that s what I meant since I don't have the installer for the 2.6 anymore.

Is there an easy way to try out the upgrade or go back to 2.6 once upgraded ?

Would be nice to have an answer from NL team on this.

Thanks

[Mihai]

Could I finish rendering some MXI generated by 2.6.0 with 2.6.1 without bugs or crash ?

I would not do that It's not possible to resume an older version MXI with the new version.

[Asmithey]

I installed 2.6.1 and it crashes when I send a rendering from Form-Z and I can not open from the application folder any of the apps. studio or any thing.

I will try and install the patch again.

That did not work. I guess I will have to do a complete install.

[Bubbaloo]

I installed 2.6.1 and it crashes when I send a rendering from Form-Z and I can not open from the application folder any of the apps. studio or any thing.

I will try and install the patch again.

That did not work. I guess I will have to do a complete install.

On a few of my computers, I had to delete the old "extensions" folder before installing the patch. If not, the patch wouldn't install correctly and all of the Maxwell apps would crash immediately after startup. Uninstalling the old version, then installing the full Maxwell will also work. Be sure and make a backup of your license.txt file if you uninstall.

[Asmithey]

Yep a clean install did the trick.

Aaron

[jfrancis]

I like the speedier SSS

[Asmithey]

I ran a test with 2.6.1 rendering one of the product shots I have been working on. I am rendering with multi-light. I have sky/ sun set to none using an IBL set up with emitters. I have all caustics on. When I have the IBL turned on the speckles are everywhere when I mute the IBL in the light panel, every speck goes away. I will post some images in a bit. This different behavior then before with 2.6.0. I had speckles only when my caustic layers we on at high SL's.

[mxwl_fjg]

@jfrancis - what kind of emitter is that for the SSS image? image based or geo?
thanks

[jfrancis]

@jfrancis - what kind of emitter is that for the SSS image? image based or geo?
thanks

It is a simple rectangle emitter. Slightly out of focus due to DOF, the darkening edge picks up more of an orange color.

Here is another


Subsurface Scattering Test by jfrancis, on Flickr

[Mihai]

Very nice! Simple but effective.