[jurX]

a better navigation would be nice,...it worx now allrigtht,....but that would be nice for the workflow,...keep on rocking,...

[daros]

News for Matador Light.
Next implementations:
compatibility with MaxwellRender 1.0

some Polygonal selection tools:
single polygon.
connected polygon.
cooplanar adiacent connected polygon.
cooplanar connected polygon.
variable degree connected adiacent polygon
variable degree connected polygon
variable degree edge connected polygons columns
By layer

Selections on a 3.000.000 polygonal model will be about 100 times faster as on some last generation modelers.

Internal texture allignment tools.
texture alignment along hand drawed splines+normal direction.
texture alignment along endge extracted splines+normal direction.
Orientable cubic alignment.

future implementations.
Automatic optimized boundary detections. Variable boundary vertex quantity. Symmetry detection. Automatic extraction of texture alignment paths.

Best regards

David Rossmann

[andronikos916]

[mrcharles]

Please forgive my ignorance, but I am wondering how to install the software. I look in the various folders for an install.exe or autorun file but can't find them.

Is it a simple matter of just copying files to a location? How is the software initiated?

I am leaving town for a while and would love to run maxwell on my laptop (which doesn't have my 3D app. installed...).

Thanks for any advice you folks may have...

[daros]

Exactly, you must only install the dotnetfx.exe and then run the matadorlight.exe file.
That's all.

[Maximus3D]

Hiya Daros, by the look of that list i'd say you done alot of good updates and improvements to the new version

Just one thing i'm curious about, i know i asked this before but wouldn't it be possible to fix the scene navigation ? it's kinda difficult to use in the current version. Now i'm refeering to the camera handling within the scenes in MatadorLight.

Thanks in advance

/ Max

[bakbek]

when can we have these new version ????

[daros]

this is a funny question backbek. I can tell you something more after the release of MW1.0.

[Becco_UK]

daros: Maxwell RC?

[daros]

x Maximus3D.
MatadorLight is only our little inhouse developed application to test some implementations of RemoteMatador.
If RemoteMatador users will ask us for this kind of implementations we will begin to look in this direction.
We want to mantain our user interface as clean as possible at moment.

[Maximus3D]

Aha, alright thanks Daros. I understand it's mostly a internal application, but i thought since it's more public now that if enough people have trouble with the navigation in the viewport like me then maybe you could take a look at that. It's the only thing that bugs me, otherwise it's a good solid application.

Thanks for your quick reply

/ Max

[oz42]

daros - thanks for the update, I'm really looking forward to this, as I use XSI, MatadorLight is my saviour - it's the only way I can render!

Max - if you use MatadorLight alot (and if you use XSI, you do!) you eventually get used to the interface - I actually quite like it now (but I prefer XSI's )

[mrcharles]

Well, I've got matador installed and it can open a .obj file created in modo but I've got one problem.

I don't have a way to assign the maxwell shader to the surfaces in modo and so when I am in matador I am stuck with the maxwell default material.

I try using the "open selected material" and "assign material" options in the layers menu of matador but I cannot assign any of the maxwell materials (diffuse, emitter, dialetric, plastic options do not appear anywhere that I can find).

Any ideas? Thanks to any and all for their help...

[snalbandia]

Thanks Daros, I'm suffering with 3ds (not my primary software) Metador sounds like a nice solution, I should be able to import from Alias StudioTools as .obj. I will try it today...any chance of importing iges or Step files?

[BorDy]

Hi guys
i wanted to try Matador Light but i dont know where can i download the latest version from.
I have Matador Light 1.05 but i can't inport any scene at all may be i am doing something completely wrong. i'll apreciate any ideas. thanks...