- Sat Aug 31, 2013 3:57 am
#370559
Hello again,
I have a material downloaded from the Maxwell Material Resources. It is made in a single layer, with several BSDF´s
Each of them is being handled by a Texture, and each of them has a diferent weight value. Some use a weight value of 100 some 25 and so.
The problem I find at this point, after investing several days trying to adjust it, is that changing all these weight value seems not to produce any effect. My preliminary conclusion is that it is not working.
If that is the way it was intended to work, the Weight box should show in gray colour, and it should be blocked so that it is clear for the user that it has no function, saving valuable time. Otherwise if this weight value is a modifier of the intensity of the texture, as it does the Brightness slider inside the projection properties window, it should affect it.
The way it is right now works as a "trap" for the unaware user.
These basic bugs in Maxwell are surely affecting drastically the productivity and efficiency of many users, and will go on affecting future users too.
In my opinion things like these are not acceptable in a software which is not a beta, and the developping team should solve these problems before adding new commands or features, or releasing new versions.
It is about (in my opinion) being respectfull for the users, and I take them as innecesary obstacles, due to any or several of the following:
1) A lack or failure of beta testers.
2) A lack of professionalism in the developping team.
3) A lack of interest in customers.
4) A deficient organization or a disorganized way of working.
I wonder which of these is the cause... or perhaps there is another understandable reason that I couldn´t imagine, and that would be good to know, so that if there is good will from NL part we could undertand!
At this stage after so many years of software development, there is a serious debt to clients and users, that deserves an answer and a solution, instead of the absolute silence and lack of consideration towards us, that has been the attitude of NL until today.
I know this words are hard, but they are motivated mainly by the total absence of explanations from NL.
I still think Maxwell is one of the BEST if not the BEST rendering engine, but the problem is in the interface design.
I would appreciate if NL could listen to these critics, and could understand that they are not intended to disturb, but to strongly call the atention, because a politic change is needed urgently.
Sincerely
Ernesto
I have a material downloaded from the Maxwell Material Resources. It is made in a single layer, with several BSDF´s
Each of them is being handled by a Texture, and each of them has a diferent weight value. Some use a weight value of 100 some 25 and so.
The problem I find at this point, after investing several days trying to adjust it, is that changing all these weight value seems not to produce any effect. My preliminary conclusion is that it is not working.
If that is the way it was intended to work, the Weight box should show in gray colour, and it should be blocked so that it is clear for the user that it has no function, saving valuable time. Otherwise if this weight value is a modifier of the intensity of the texture, as it does the Brightness slider inside the projection properties window, it should affect it.
The way it is right now works as a "trap" for the unaware user.
These basic bugs in Maxwell are surely affecting drastically the productivity and efficiency of many users, and will go on affecting future users too.
In my opinion things like these are not acceptable in a software which is not a beta, and the developping team should solve these problems before adding new commands or features, or releasing new versions.
It is about (in my opinion) being respectfull for the users, and I take them as innecesary obstacles, due to any or several of the following:
1) A lack or failure of beta testers.
2) A lack of professionalism in the developping team.
3) A lack of interest in customers.
4) A deficient organization or a disorganized way of working.
I wonder which of these is the cause... or perhaps there is another understandable reason that I couldn´t imagine, and that would be good to know, so that if there is good will from NL part we could undertand!
At this stage after so many years of software development, there is a serious debt to clients and users, that deserves an answer and a solution, instead of the absolute silence and lack of consideration towards us, that has been the attitude of NL until today.
I know this words are hard, but they are motivated mainly by the total absence of explanations from NL.
I still think Maxwell is one of the BEST if not the BEST rendering engine, but the problem is in the interface design.
I would appreciate if NL could listen to these critics, and could understand that they are not intended to disturb, but to strongly call the atention, because a politic change is needed urgently.
Sincerely
Ernesto
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