[Micha]

In the bug section are some bugs not "fixed". Are this bugs in the RC again? I like to know it for future bug reports.

[aitraaz]

sunlight working with dialectrics? sorry its a bore, but me been asking for months...

[Kabe]

Is there an option to deal with cos^4 vignetting, or is the mxi format documented in a way a 3rd party could write something for it?

Summary of the problem:


This is an issue if trying to do matte shots or cubic QuickTime VRs.

[Kabe]

Early in Maxwell development we saw some picts with spectacular fog. Is this part of the current release?

[Nicolas Rivera]

Hi, here are some of my questions

Is there going to be any type of site insertion??? this would be very useful for architecture viz.

Now that we have clear that there will be a custom library for the user, will this be totaly shareble, will the custom texture be embeded in the sharing??

Will there be the posibility to save the quick preview window????

Will there be a paralel view, or front facade view with scale????

Is there going to be more light types???

Are we going to be able to UV map textures in the software??? Is it going to be easy???

Thanks.

[Kabe]

Lens offset would btw. of limited use without vignetting compensation...

[Thomas An.]

How many of the promised features will eventually make it to the final release (no teasing inside) ?

baboule,

This seems a bit broad and would require a lengthy answer which would have to enumerate features from A to Z.

Can you narrow it down to something more specific ? (for example can you list exactly which features you fear might not be present .... )

[Thomas An.]

Some of the questions here seem to pertain to the upcoming Release Canditate.

However, please keep in mind the next (weekly) question batch will be sent to NL on Dec-04. If the RC is indeed released before this date then some questions in the batch would be obsolete.

[arch4d]

Will the plugins (especially the cinema 4d plugin) be updated, at least to the standard of the max or lw plugin, or will we have to do all settings (materials, lights, cameras, etc.) in the render engine?

[michaelplogue]

Regarding Cooperative/Net rendering: Will we be able to run the net monitor independantly on a non-rendering computer, where it dosen't "tie up" one of our seats?

[tom]

Well, many questions and I will try to answer a few and later more...

(Q051128.W001.05.billspradlin)
No, the displacement maps won't be in RC, it's in plans along 1.x

(Q051128.W001.07.Kabe)
No, the fog won't be in RC, it's in plans along 1.x

(Q051128.W001.17.michaelplogue)
Yes, also you will be able to watch the net processes from any node at any time. Network system has a new face and it's easier now.

(Q051128.W001.01.Micha)
We're currently tagging the corresponding fixes as FIXED 1.0, however non-tagged ones don't mean that they are not solved, it's just because they are working in a different way now, so it's not possible to talk about an obsolete system as fixed. Most of them are renewed and of course small problems are possible, no software may be 100% perfect you know.

Thanks,
Tom

[bakbek]

Will we be able to set NORTH direction in the new version and will we have a sun "preview" functionality (an arrow representing the light travel, or some kind of shade)

[pluMmet]

1: will we have an option to match the aspect of the pinhole renderers (all other renderers) so we can composite with them?

2: Will particles make it into the December 1.0 release?

3: Is anything being done about Hair effects being renderable in M~R if so when can we expect it?

[Duncan]

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What file formats will the RC1 support ? FBX, OBJ files ?

[Mihai]

Are there any plans for texture baking?