Maxwell Render

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Next Limit Team

Hi Jeremy

Thanks for the update. The new grass tool is great! Looking for more extensions to come
I have one question concerning the texture editor. Why did you make it independent again?
I really liked the compact, integrated version. Also because it saved some mouse clicks that are now necessary again.

And I have one issue, that is irritating me from time to time: I sometimes come across materials that have textures assigned to them, but they are all not activated (switched off).
I think this might be due that the plugin was not able to find the textures at one time, due to a disconnected network drive (If you open a material with missing textures, all textures are turned off). I think, when you save the file and open it again at a later time (with the textures being available again) they remain switched off. This can cause some mess, since I sometimes only deactivate textures in materials instead of deleting them, so I would be able to activate the texture again. But with that issue I am not able to tell which textures were activated and which ones weren't. Maybe that could be changed for the next release?

Cheers,
Kami

Yes, I knew breaking the texture editor back out could be controversial, and I can't say that I really like it myself. The main reason it was done is that you now need to be able to edit textures both in materials and in extensions; the alternative is giving the extension editor its own texture editor, and for various reasons, I chose this route, rather than that one. I'm not yet convinced whether it should stay this way or not.

On missing textures being disabled if they cannot be found, I thought this was previously the case, but had been addressed -- so I'll look into it and see what I can do.

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Next Limit Team

i like the new texture panel.. very nice because one can keep the mat editor as small(wide)as possible but still preview textures in big scale.

my vote goes for keep!

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workstation: EVGA SR-2 / dual x5650@3.5Ghz / quadro 4000

HI Jeremy
It could as well be fixed. I've noticed this issue a while ago, but never reported it, I think. I thought I've came across it lately but this could as well have been an older file.
Concering the separate texture editor, I understand your intentions and think that it might have some adventages as well as disadventages. So I hope I'll get used to it as well.
Cheers, Christoph