[dariolanza]

Hello all,

We have just uploaded a new Maxwell version (Maxwell 3.1.1) including interesting fixes (listed below).

You can also check the Release Notes list here: http://support.nextlimit.com/display/mx ... ease+Notes

Maxwell 3.1.1 Release Notes

MAXWELL
- Improvements in preprocess and voxelization time
- Fixed potential crash with blocked emitters
- Fixed blocked emitters were not working with references
- Fixed objects could disappear or show invalid transformations in FIRE in some extreme scenarios
- Support for hair with tip radius greater than root radius
- Fixed crash deleting instances with excluded lights
- Change in multilight sliders range for IBL
- Fixed SSS brightness with IBL in some scenarios
- Fixed token %mwchannel% was not working properly
- Hair material dependencies issues fixed
- Better support for blade normals in Grass primitives
- Improved support for IES and EULUMDAT files with lines longer than 256 characters
- Fixed instances of references with multiple objects were only instancing first element
- Fixed preview window was ignoring camera response if Multilight enabled
- Added new command line flag -affinity: [auto/manual] to override thread affinity (true by default, Maxwell overrides thread affinity)
- Fixed root & tip was half of expected in flat and curve grass/hair primitives
- Fixed render failed when grass/hair flat primitive had zero tip width
- Fixed memory leak with procedural textures
- Fixed crash when converting an image file to MXI format

STUDIO
- Fixed UI issue when having MXM references (the item shown in the stack properties and the item selected could get out of sync)
- Fixed UI issue that allowed to set IES/Spot emitters with Temperature
- Fixed Animation tool forced longitude/latitude sun position
- Fixed Animation tool forced jpg image output
- Fixed camera roll angle was wrong when entering negative values
- Fixed RealFlow bin meshes loader was failing in some cases

PYMAXWELL
- Fixed crash after running getObjectNames() causing scene corruption
- Useless parameter for getNumCustomAlphaChannels() has been removed
- Fixed crash on getPath() when path is empty

Enjoy!

Dario Lanza