[Mihnea Balta]

Version 3.0.15

• moved channels to a separate rollup in the render options
• updated supported file formats for RFRK objects
• added noise 3D parameters to the volumetric object
• added MAXScript functions for manipulating the custom alpha channel and blocked emitter lists on objects
• fixed: the intensity for projected textures wasn't exported correctly
• fixed: projection textures could not be removed once assigned
• fixed: UI layout issue for the mesher node
• fixed: deep channel max samples were not exported correctly
• fixed: projection textures weren't imported from MXM files
• fixed: creating an assistant material could crash Max
• fixed: custom alpha channel opaque setting wasn't exported
• fixed: crash when deleting custom alpha channels
• fixed: crash when exporting custom alpha channels after loading a scene
• fixed: warning message when displaying the object properties and Maxwell is not the active renderer

[Mihnea Balta]

Version 3.0.30

• added support for Max 2015
• re-added support for Max 2011
• Max double-sided materials are exported as front/back face materials
• added pre- and post-animation behaviors to referenced MXS nodes
• added controls for selecting the padding and format of MXS sequences
• added region rendering controls to cameras
• added support for hue adjustment to MxBitmap
• MultiScatter instances use the render flags from the original object
• added focus camera button to FIRE window and toolbar
• added the name of the material to the backface material button
• added rotation parameter in MxBitmap
• negative values can be used in the offset attribute of MXS reference nodes
• double clicking a material in the MXS material overrides window selects the material for that override
• added a way to set the MXS reference material overrides from MAXScript
• exposed gsChannelDeep and gsUseGlobalMaterial to the maxwell renderer MAXScript interface
• added global settings for textures
• added use global, mirror X and mirror Y flags to MxBitmap
• increased the limit for the depth channel max depth
• added back the MXS sequence rendering flag
• fixed: MAXScript error when loading some scenes with corrupted cameras
• fixed: incorrect export of particle flow motion data
• fixed: particle flow systems with a dynamic material node were exported with a default material
• fixed: crash in the MXS reference object when no material overrides are set
• fixed: MXS references didn't display in the Nitrous viewport
• fixed: wrong bounding box for Almebic reference objects
• fixed: emitters beneath an IES emitter in the material tree got assigned the same IES file on export
• fixed: UV scale wasn't exported when tiling was off
• fixed: material overrides weren't saved with the proxy object
• fixed: crash when previewing some materials
• fixed: crash with vray cameras
• fixed: IES files were ignored when importing materials from MXM
• fixed: Alembic and MXS material overrides disappeared when the mesh was reloaded
• fixed: Alembic material overrides were exported improperly
• fixed: wrong normals for Alembic objects imported with CRATE
• fixed: objects with no name or that only contained numbers in their name were exported incorrectly
• fixed: the plugin reserved a license in node mode when the active renderer wasn't Maxwell
• fixed: wrong camera position in FIRE in some cases
• fixed: Alembic crash when the abc file had material references
• fixed: the enable sequence checkbox in MxBitmap gets disabled when turning off viewport preview
• fixed: xref scenes that are hidden in the viewport were still exported
• fixed: MXS references updated their geometry even when show in viewport was off
• fixed: MxBitmap previews appeared darker when using show in viewport
• fixed: Maxwell material viewport preview ignored the hue shift parameter
• fixed: 3dsmax 2012 used a seat license even in node mode
• fixed: MAXScript error when loading scenes made with older versions of the plugin
• fixed: custom bokeh was not exported
• fixed: the offset parameter of the MXS reference object wasn't working correctly
• fixed: wrong output paths in some cases
• fixed: render error when materials contain empty bitmaps
• fixed: the viewport preview of MXS references still showed the old object after trying to load a new file or sequence which contains errors
• fixed: crash when displaying Maxwell materials in the slate editor
• fixed: the textured material wizard created materials with empty bitmaps
• fixed: garbage text in the log window when material translation failed in FIRE
• fixed: IES file names weren't saved
• fixed: crash when converting wizard materials to layered materials inside the slate editor
• fixed: crash when the wizard material was loaded as part of a multi-material
• fixed: memory leak in the material UI
• fixed: wrong size for the viewport preview of the volumetric object
• fixed: missing frame number in channel file names when rendering sequences

[Mihnea Balta]

Version 3.0.35

• added the maxwellGetCorrelatedColor() MAXScript function
• assistant materials retain their name when converted to layered materials
• added the Hair appearance for the material assistant
• the plug-in no longer reserves a license when Max starts. The license is acquired when exporting or rendering for the first time.
• Pack'n'go now exports asset files introduced with the new v3 features
• fixed: maxwell MAXScript functions didn't work anymore
• fixed: wrong UVs when importing a mesh with multiple UV sets from a MXS file
• fixed: the flip flags on the global normal map of the Maxwell material were not exported correctly
• fixed: wrong Nd for the the ghost BSDF component created for MxLights
• fixed: the Maxwell object properties rollup for MxLight objects was truncated
• fixed: area light rectangles created by MxLight objects were twice as big as they should have been
• fixed: emitter textures (HDR and projected image) were not copied by Pack'n'Go
• fixed: Maxscript error when calling MaxwellRenderer()
• fixed: assitant materials couldn't be cloned
• fixed: maxwell material import and export functions couldn't be called from Maxscript
• fixed: axis conversion wasn't applied to scatter values
• fixed: converting assistant materials into layered materials removed top level multi materials
• fixed: No viewport display for maxwell nodes
• fixed: Crash in mxlight
• fixed: Displacement was always exported as on
• fixed: Location settings were disabled when the sun was turned off
• fixed: Maxscript error when cameras contain newline characters

[Mihnea Balta]

Version 3.1.9

• added support for Max 2016
• if the time output mode is set to single, Export MXS writes a single frame even if animation is requested
• pack'n'go resolves missing file paths in the same way the renderer does, before attempting to copy the files
• the exporter looks for missing IOR files and MXM files in the same way it does for textures
• fixed: pack'n'go crashed with some types of materials
• fixed: the hue adjustment parameter was inverted in the bitmap preview window
• fixed: crash on export when the Maxwell extensions cannot be loaded
• fixed: the animation setting in the export MXS dialog and maxwellExportMXS command was not taken into account
• renamed the "appendFrameNrToImg" flag for the maxwellExportMXS command to "appendFrameNr", because it also affects the output MXS file name, not just the image files
• added support for extra sampling
• updated the range of the devignetting parameter to match Studio
• added MAXScript functions for manipulating visibility flags: maxwellGetObjectFlag and maxwellSetObjectFlag
• added support for UDIM (tiled textures)
• the MXS extension is always appended to the name of the output scene files, even when they already contain a dot in their names
• added a frame offset parameter for the volumetric object
• fixed: clicking the "hide to camera in shadow pass" checkbox could set it to an indeterminate state (checked but grayed out)
• the environment intensity multiplier is exported to Maxwell so that the value correctly appears in the multilight panel
• renamed default item in the FIRE window camera menu to make its purpose clearer
• the material displacement component is exported even when it is disabled, so that it does not disappear when editing a material with MXED
• fixed: the density parameter for the scatter modifier did not allow decimals
• fixed: wrong file names for custom alpha channels
• fixed: crash in Max 2012 when changing a viewport to ActiveShade
• fixed: crash in some cases when closing the object properties dialog when Maxwell is not the active renderer
• fixed: viewport slowdown when using many MxLights set to correlated color emission
• fixed: the range of the emitter correlated color and coating thickness parameters did not match Studio
• added support for multiple selection in the light linking UI
• added support for per-material custom alphas
• decreased the time needed to open the object properties dialog on scenes with many referenced materials
• fixed: the "use global settings" texture parameter was not set correctly when importing a MXM file
• fixed: constant density volumetric objects were not exported correctly
• fixed: floating reflections/shadows were not working when rendering in draft mode
• fixed: visibility flags were not exported correctly for Max instances
• fixed: incorrect names exported for Max instances, causing blocked emitters to break if they were instanced (among other things)