[Tim Ellis]

I've been learning to use the latest Maxwell release & plugin with SketchUp 5 and am having issues with the Maxwell materials.


In the Plugins>Maxwell export dialogue, you can set an object to have a Maxwell material. No problems until using dielectrics.

If I have 3 spheres and want each to have a different dialectric material, how do I do this?

I have been selecting a sphere, then assigning it a Maxwell dielectric shader. The dialectric options dialogue opens and I set the values to what I want.

Now when I try to assign a new dielectric material to another of the spheres, then the same material settings appear. If I change them, the settings change on the first sphere too.

How can I have more than one dielectric shader with unique settings to any others I have in the scene?

I have experimented with assigning different SketchUp materials to each sphere first, but still have the same results.

Metal shaders work, as in I can have one material gold, one silver etc on different objects.

SketchUp will also go straight to Bug Splat, if I try to load any jpg map as a Maxwell map. The SketchUp assigned material maps work fine.

Any help will be greatly recieved.

Thanks,

Tim.

[Sheik]

I have not encountered any of the problems you mentioned. Are you using Mac?
Sheik

[Tim Ellis]

No PC 2.6ghz P4 192Mb ram.

So are you able to assign a different dielectric material to different objects?

If so, does the dielectric pop up window contain the default values or those you entered for the last dielectric material?

Thanks,

Tim.

[Sheik]

In the popup I get the same values as I set to the previous material. Making a change to the settings only affects the selected faces. So yes, I can make different dielectic materials. Making a change in one doesn’t affect the rest.
You mentioned applying the dielectic to objects, I noticed it is better to always apply the Maxwell settings on the face level. Does that help?
Sheik

[Tim Ellis]

In the popup I get the same values as I set to the previous material. Making a change to the settings only affects the selected faces. So yes, I can make different dielectic materials. Making a change in one doesn’t affect the rest.
You mentioned applying the dielectic to objects, I noticed it is better to always apply the Maxwell settings on the face level. Does that help?
Sheik

Thanks, yes that clears it up for me.

Tim.