[Soth3d]

Hi,

Why are my frames not rendering, maxwell plgin is asking not present user if he/she wants to upgrade? But seriously, it could give up doing it on every headless render node every few weeks...



...actually its same in 3dstudio max and probably other apps that i dont own too.

[Soth3d]

this is when i render in lightwave scenes that have nothing to do with maxwell

[mgroeteke]

maybe it's time to remove the master plugin form the scene, then?
also, just uncheck 'auto update check' in plugin options...

[Soth3d]

Apparently is enough that one of the object have maxwell shader on it.

And the settings, is plugin keeping configs file somewhere locally (we have network lightwave install, with config files and plugin folder stored on network drive)? I cant see 'dont check for new version' option having any effect on the computers on our render farm.

[Mihnea Balta]

Hi,

The autoupdate setting is kept in the registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Next Limit Technologies\Maxwell Render\LWIntegration\AutoUpdateCheck. You can disable it by importing a .reg file which sets the value to 0 (like this, for example) or by running this command:

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reg add "HKCU\Software\Next Limit Technologies\Maxwell Render\LWIntegration" /v AutoUpdateCheck /d 0 /f

This has to be done on each render node.

We have looked into skipping the update check when LW runs in command line mode, but we couldn't find a way to detect this condition so far.

[Soth3d]

Thank you!

EDIT: crap, its not working, at least command line

[Mihnea Balta]

Can you check using regedit on the node if that command actually managed to set the registry key to 0? Also make sure that you're doing this as the same user that the render process is running as, because the setting is per user.