Maxwell Render

Hi guys-

First post here. I'm getting a very odd display of some of my materials. Super, super noisy and freakish colors. They seem to render ok, but the display is just wonky. Is this a Cinema bug? Do I just ignore this? Is my material set up wrong?

Thanks!
Alec

Huh, don't see how to upload an image. I guess that's my first problem...

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Alec Syme
www.fuseanimation.com

Yes, an image would help -- to post an image, you need to upload it to imageshack or similar, then link to the image by placing the url inside of [img][/img] tags.

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Next Limit Team

Got it. Let's try this...



That material is Brown Beer Bottle from the materials gallery

Thanks
Alec

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Alec Syme
www.fuseanimation.com

Are you running the current (2.7.0) plugin? You can check by looking in the Cinema Console window.

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Next Limit Team

Yes. About half of my materials do this. They get more and more noisy as I work with them.Particularly the transparent materials.

Thanks
Alec

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Alec Syme
www.fuseanimation.com

Thanks, but I am not able to reproduce this yet, and I am fairly certain I'm testing with the same MXM you are using. Confusingly, when it is imported, the Cinema material is named "Beer Bottle_Brown5" rather than "BeerBottleGlass_Brown2" as it is in your screenshot (the former is the name stored inside the MXM, and the latter, the MXM file name). So could you please gather:

• A copy of your Cinema file, with all geometry deleted.
• A copy of the actual MXM you are using.
• Copies of the textures the MXM file references.
• A copy of defaultpreview.mxs from your Maxwell /preview folder.

Before saving the Cinema file, please make sure the material is not set to use MXM linking -- I want to see it as you have it set up, currently. Just drop all of these in a folder, zip it up, and send the zip it to me at jeremy at nextlimit dotcom.

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Next Limit Team

I think this is not a plugin issue but a strange problem with that particular preview scene. It happens for me from time to time as well in Studio and just with that preview scene.

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Next Limit Team
Merchant of happiness

That is my guess, too -- I'm going to see if I can reproduce it using his actual preview MXS, and if so, figure out what causes it.

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Next Limit Team

I've scene this happen before with default preview and gem preview in MXED.. hasnt happened for a while.. i.e. not with 2.7

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