[Maxer]

I keep trying to render a previous Maxwell model which worked fine while using the alpha version. When I start rendering the scene I get this message "Error:MXS file is invalid" I can't figure out what is causing this error, anyone have any ideas?

[rivoli]

are you trying to re render directly from the mxs through mxcl?

[Maxer]

I'm rendering out of Max using the plugin.

[rivoli]

then it may be some material compatibility problem. have you reapplied all materials from scratch or you're still using the old ones created with the alpha?

[Maxer]

Still using all the materials from the old model. This is the only model that is giving me this problem.

[rivoli]

i don't know, but old materials can give some problem. sometime. have you tried to apply a single simple diffuse material to the whole scene? just to see if it works this way.

[Maxer]

even when I replace all the materials with a new diffuse material I still get the same error.

[rivoli]

what does the info window say? is there any error message there?

[Maxer]

No, there's no error message there either.

[Mihai]

Make sure in the about window that both engine and plugin versions read 1.2 beta.

I know when I first dl the plugin, they hadn't yet updated it with the beta, and I still had the old plugin, which gave me this error message.

[Maxer]

Ok I've finally figured out what the problem was, for some reason my window frames were causing the MXS file to error out. As soon as I turned them off it worked fine without having to re-map any materials. I'm still not sure why this happened though.

[rivoli]

glad to hear you made it eventually.