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**MAX2Octane exporter for max 2010+**







Max2Octane 1.022h
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- Added quickrender macro
- Bind the "Max2Octane Quick Render" to e.g ctrl+F9
- This version should be placed in scripts/max2octane



Max2Octane 1.022g
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- Fix to substitute "," with "."
- For users getting errors like "Couldn't read argument value from string '-267,179' Argument: (--cam-pos-x)"


Max2Octane 1.022f
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- Translates camera roll to Octane
- Added a button "New" under project config
- Fixed my new bugs




When reporting bugs, try to explain the steps in detail + MAXversion and version of the script



INSTALL:
Extract in max root folder, restart max.
Find the script in customize, under category max2octane.

@ tomacmuni

Can I see a video capture of the animation export which uses deforming animation and textures?
I watched the video at the thread start, but it is video with camera animation only actually.
I have tried many variations and fiddling around to try and get it to work, and no joy.
I doubt it's a vista problem (except maybe the assertion crash, but that seems to not happen now ... so much).
I'm just not getting the texture working when I export animation from 3dsmax with the .ocs previously saved.
I want to see it, so I can check if I am doing it ok (I think I am, but hey).

Check your objexp settings, should be like the picture above, i'm using map-export ON

I have already been setting my OBJ export settings (with maps) as in the instructions.
I've tried it both with the save map path and without - no difference.
It works fine if I export a frame only, especially if I use blessod's export3.ms since then I don't even have to do any hookup in octane, that's automatic.

Afterwards, if I 'render animation' with camera only it correctly displays the textured model from the .ocs that was saved. But in this case the model won't deform.

Or, if I 'render animation' including the model again, any settings that were good in the .ocs in Octane are obliterated and it renders with no texture. The model deforms fine though.

Additionally, this holds if I use a Standard material with a bitmap or blessod's Octane Glossy.ms and the material type this creates.

Just for the sake of argument I am going to try installing a different OS and try again, but if Octane works in Vista then max2octane should also. It seems other users don't get this problem at all. Which drives me even more nuts.

Supposing this isn't just a weird isolated case, I think what's needed is some kind of user recorded macro (like they have in photoshop) that we can control on frame 0 of a sequence, after octane loads but before it starts to render, that'll then subsequently be applied to all the following frames.
Then all that'd be needed is to export once from 3dsmax.

tomacmuni wrote:I have already been setting my OBJ export settings (with maps) as in the instructions.
I've tried it both with the save map path and without - no difference.
It works fine if I export a frame only, especially if I use blessod's export3.ms since then I don't even have to do any hookup in octane, that's automatic.

Afterwards, if I 'render animation' with camera only it correctly displays the textured model from the .ocs that was saved. But in this case the model won't deform.

Or, if I 'render animation' including the model again, any settings that were good in the .ocs in Octane are obliterated and it renders with no texture. The model deforms fine though.

Additionally, this holds if I use a Standard material with a bitmap or blessod's Octane Glossy.ms and the material type this creates.

Just for the sake of argument I am going to try installing a different OS and try again, but if Octane works in Vista then max2octane should also. It seems other users don't get this problem at all. Which drives me even more nuts.

Supposing this isn't just a weird isolated case, I think what's needed is some kind of user recorded macro (like they have in photoshop) that we can control on frame 0 of a sequence, after octane loads but before it starts to render, that'll then subsequently be applied to all the following frames.
Then all that'd be needed is to export once from 3dsmax.

It's just a weird isolated case.. With all those error you've had the best thing is to install a different OS yes... I'm using xp64 and there is no errors what-so-ever

i've actually had something similar, tho not the anim part, just things in general getting garbled

I posted in other forum but I'm guessing it was overlooked.. Basically, I cant export more than one object with bitmaps. For example:

make a plane
make a tpot
assign maps to each
export tpot ONLY
render
result is fine
export plane ONLY
render
fine
export BOTH, uv's all messed up (fresh scene, I can repro every time :/)
what it looks like is the uvs are getting assigned to the wrong object if there's more than one.

this is in 2011, win 7 and latest exporter

cheers

cp

Maybe try assigning a unique UV ID to the different objects?

I switched over to Windows7 32bit and tried max2octane there with moving mesh and texture and it worked first pop.
Still dunno, what's up with my vista 64bit, wa wa.

What is the difference between having a 'floatimage' vs an 'image' node for the obj diffuse?

Tom

i think floatimage converts rgb to grayscale

add the units, please in the version 3d max

Elvis is back!

Why add this, the scale is converted to meters automatically. Do you have a reason for this request?