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I'm sorry, but you are very unstable.

darkline wrote: I think the problem lies in that Max may well use instances within the Parray, but that's not the same as each object being an octane movable proxy. I don't think it supports it.

if you want to do that, forest pack pro (free) or multi-scatter are the best as they do work with octane instances

Alternatively using 'Geometry' on hair and fur will still convert to mesh at render time and be a big hit on memory, but the advantage being it'll retain any animation/interaction with the scene which you wouldn't get if you converted it into a mesh with the tools.

thanks for the explanation - those plugins were pretty buggy last time I checked - and tends to be a problem when using outside plugins and using more than one computer for work - especially when you try and open the scene in one year - only to find out all of the updated versions of plugins break the scene - that's why I'd like to try out all the available internal plugins -
- anyway I'll test out the updates, hopefully - just had a huge project to finish, and didn't have time to add realistic grass - so now I'm fully motivated not to crap it out..
- tips on grass always welcome - it's always a big pain in the ass if you don't organize the scene very efficiently - grass tests are OK - huge projects with short deadlines are a pain
- just have to keep in mind to try and convert everything to max editable polys for future references..

- to JJTTBB: I also come accross those unexplainable 3dmax crashesh all the time - so I can always copy/paste the original installed max folder - so I can just delete the fualty one and rename the original - even that sometimes doesn't work - most problems I was getting was because of those nvidia physX plugins - they interfere with updated subscription packs and massFX and stuff like that - most advices are to uninstal the nvidia plugins then reinstall again - now I suggest don't even install the nvidia ones - they mess up instalations pretty badly when they do - another solution is to switch to a higher version of max - and don't install anything you don't really need in the future - those error messages are complete crap sometimes - and you could loose days trying to debug it - forget it, max is always going to be unstable (google for error messages and hope someone solved it)
- I am also getting some pretty stupid crashes - I open up max 2012 / not related to this version of octane - and when I resize to full screen it just crashes.. and that also happened to another version of max.. aint nobody got time for that
- do you best to keep original copy od freshly installed max to switch it back when needed - of course none of this might help you now - but keep it in mind if you're going to reinstall now

Octane viewport not updating while press pause. (Show only 1-st sampel)
Look like it is stopeed, but it is rendering.
Octane runing on QUADRO 2000M.

Vanya wrote:I'm sorry, but you are very unstable.

What did you do to get this hangs?

Karba wrote:

Vanya wrote:I'm sorry, but you are very unstable.

What did you do to get this hangs?

I did not understand anything, I'm just working as usual, opened the material editor, and double-clicked on one of the materials. crash was a few times. Then I had forgotten that I wanted to customize. and did not do anything.

Sometimes when you change materials, viewport is updated, sometimes not. at the time when he was in the castle.
Thank you for your work.

thank you karba i have a problema when i put the diffuse texture this is gray, why happen this ? in the last versión 1.13 dosen't happen that
can you help me ? add image

A question for Master Karba :
Is there a way to add alpha contribution to the post process (bloom and glare).
As I save my renders in png, i lose the post effect on empty (no object) pixels. So I have to do make multiple renders in order to recompose and have the post effect which, i think, is great.

Thanks in advance for your answer.

bicket wrote:A question for Master Karba :
Is there a way to add alpha contribution to the post process (bloom and glare).
As I save my renders in png, i lose the post effect on empty (no object) pixels. So I have to do make multiple renders in order to recompose and have the post effect which, i think, is great.

Thanks in advance for your answer.

can you try saving .tif with alpha... maybe you don't loose it.

1)
Max 2014 crashes reproduceable here if I merge a model from another scene which has a texture in it with an unknown path. It tells me "path not found", I press okay and then it crashes.
If I merge the model with proper paths all is okay.

2)
Also the little thumbnails in material editor (compact version, using a mutl-mat) don't get updated propery. But I think it has benn reported already.

3)
All thumbnails feel like beeing updated slower as in previous versions. I didn't use a stopwatch but feels slower.