[Brett Morgan]

Hi ppl, made a simple scene, having a bot of trouble lighting it, unless I select skydome I get no light in the scene with use physical sky or use sunlight in the maxwell globals, anyone know whats going on here, a bug maybe or just my dud scene, here it is if anyone wants to take a look:

http://www.mypage.tsn.cc/algorhythm/maxwell_skytest.rar

Thanks for your time

Brett

[abgrafx3d]

Brett,

I took a look at your scene. When I opened the scene, I checked the plugin manager - Mayatomr.mll (mental ray) was checked and mayall was unchecked. Mental ray causes a conflict with Maxwell so you have to make sure it is not loaded before using Maxwell. I resaved the scene (fixing the mental ray/maxwell conflict), then closed Maya and then restarted Maya/reopened your scene. I checked physical sky and sun light in Maxwell global, did a preview and it works fine now.

Give it a try.

-Wayne

[Brett Morgan]

Thanks wayne, I'd actually disabled mental ray but put the 6.01 update on after a reinstall, it must have enabled it again
Thanks for clearing that up!

Cheers

Brett

[iker]

abgrafx3d, I have both loaded without any problems (Maxwell & Mental ray)

[abgrafx3d]

iker,

If I load mayall first then mental ray, everything is ok. But if I load mental ray first then mayall, I get "Error: line 1: initializePlugin function failed (mayall)". So I've just loaded one or the other and not both plugins at the same time and everything works fine. Using Maya 6.01.

[iker]

ahhhh ok, ok

[iker]

If you change Los Angeles environment location to Madrid it renders perfectly, you are using strange settings in Turbidity and Ozone.

So if you change Turbidity to 3 it renders perfectly from Los Angeles as well.