Scandinavian letters fails maxwell material load

Scandinavian letters fails maxwell material load#360749

By Search72 - Tue Sep 18, 2012 8:28 am

- Tue Sep 18, 2012 8:28 am #360749

3D Studio Max Design 2013 WIN64 with Product update 5
Next Limit Maxwell 2.7.10 WIN64 with maxwell max 2.7.6 plugin

When I try to import Maxwell Material in Slate Material Editor from my own material library I get "Error: Could not read material file" message in Maxwell Translation Window.
This happens if file name or file path include scandinavian letters (äö).

Re: Scandinavian letters fails maxwell material load#360752

By Mihnea Balta - Tue Sep 18, 2012 8:49 am

- Tue Sep 18, 2012 8:49 am #360752

I'm afraid there's no solution for this at the moment. Maxwell does not support the Unicode character set, so only paths containing letters from the English alphabet will work.

Re: Scandinavian letters fails maxwell material load#360754

By Search72 - Tue Sep 18, 2012 9:02 am

- Tue Sep 18, 2012 9:02 am #360754

Why it works in 3D Studio Max Design 2012 but not in 2013?

Re: Scandinavian letters fails maxwell material load#360758

By Mihnea Balta - Tue Sep 18, 2012 9:59 am

- Tue Sep 18, 2012 9:59 am #360758

Because Max has switched to the Unicode character set internally, and now we have to convert to ANSI before handing the paths over to Maxwell. The conversion probably makes the path invalid. In 2012, Max asked the Windows file open dialog for the file in ANSI directly and we could use it unchanged. I'll check if there's something wrong with our conversion code anyway.