Just an FYI--I think you know about this already, but I just installed 2.48b on a box w/2x 590-gtx (4 CUDA devices) and I can't add any of them to the active list...

It's really fantastic, it's perfect.
NO FIREFLIES, NEED NOT SUPER SAMPLING and ULTRA FAST(52Msps with 4xGTX590, double speed of 2.46b).
This is what I am waiting for.
Many many thanks.

Regards,
I am planning buying such a config with 4x gtx 590 too.
My Motherboard will be an EVGA SR2, my CPU ...

ROUBAL wrote:
My temporary conclusion : this release shows a great improvement, but requires some work on fixing abnormal high delays when using the materials picker.

Second that...

Stable version (2.46b) no longer working on testing machine...

I used a machine to do some testing of this build, but now the old 2.46b (both versions) no longer work on that machine since I upgraded the NVIDIA drivers...

D'oh!

(This just means I can't test on my main quad 580-GTX rig until this ...

It says "2 GPUs (1 failed)" under the render window. Note that both devices show up fine in as active device under the CUDA tab in prefs.

(one is a GTX 580 & one is a GTX 480--both worked fine under CUDA 3.0)

I realized I just posted in the wrong place... just tested with 2.48b and some issues still apply:

1. Material picker is "flakier" in current build...
Previously, the material picker was rock-solid. Now, it often doesn't find a new material that is clearly on top of the previously selected ...

Previously, the material picker was rock-solid. Now, it often doesn't find a new material that is clearly on top of the previously selected material, or takes multiple clicks to find a new material.

Also, as noted, the material list is no longer sorted from closest material to furthest material ...

Previously, when you used the material picker to select a material, then changed the material type, the view would stay in render mode. Now, if you change the material type, it jumps to seeing the material on its own. This is very jarring--I'd call it a bug, unless there is a way to change the ...

When using the material picker, right click, and the list of materials seems random now. It was better before when the material infront of the picker was on top of the material list.


yes your right.The material names pop up Does seem a bit random.

Maybe the most intuitive interface would be the ...

This would be tricky, as you'd need to really get into the guts of Messiah to enable dumping the entire scene, frame by frame, as one gigantic .obj, similar to how messiah's FBX export works. Currently, there is no easy way to do this directly from messiah--you can export separate elements as .objs ...