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Aksel
02-13-2003, 09:12 AM
Hi!

i need somebody put me on the right path: i am currently evaluating AnimalLogics MaxMan for Discreet MAX to call Sitex AIR Renderer. I

am not experienced with RM-Stuff, and i already prepared for some tweaking. Engines communicate, geometry can be seen in the framebuffer, diffusemaps and displacements shows etc., but everything is only ambient, no lights in scene. This seems to correspond to the error-messages from the command-window (pasted below).

But obviously i don't have a clue at all: how can i tell MaxMax to give AIR what it wants according to lights?!

Anybody an idea?

Thanks guys, Aksel.

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c:/temp/maxman/default.0.rib
EVALUATION COPY
WARNING: "c:/temp/maxman/default.qual" (20): Deprecated item or feature
--> Option render:minshadowbias converted to Attribute trace:bias
WARNING: "c:/temp/maxman/default.qual" (21): Deprecated item or feature
--> Option raytrace:reflections
WARNING: "c:/temp/maxman/default.qual" (22): Deprecated item or feature
--> Option raytrace:shadows
MaxManVFB: connecting to Max VFB socket...
Rendering "c:/temp/maxman/output0000.tif" 600x480 rgba
ERROR: "c:/temp/maxman/default_cam_and_world.0.rib" (37): Cannot load requested
shader
--> RMsoftSpot
100% complete | 0:00:18 elapsed | 55.1 M in use, 55.7 M peak
Render complete
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Flinch
02-13-2003, 11:09 AM
Your problem sounds like you're missing the airshaders for maxman. you can get them from animallogic. lights are also shaders, and the compiled shaders for air aren'T included in the setup of maxman as far as i know.(at least they weren't included with softman) what version of air are you using? i guess you will encounter some more problems when using newer features of air, since maxman wasn't updated for a long time now.

.Flinch
Aksel
02-13-2003, 11:55 AM
ah, i see - i'll go ask.

but as you are using softman/maxman, what is your favourite rm-compagnion with it? experiences very welcome!

thanks man, aksel.
Mauritius
02-16-2003, 01:04 AM
Hey Aksel, what company do you work for in Munich -- Scanline?

The warnings you get btw. only mean that MaxMan needs to be brought in snyc with the RI 3.3 spec and the new stuff in PRMan 11 which is copied by AIR in parts. Read: AnimalLogic need to have a look.

.mm
Flinch
02-16-2003, 02:23 AM
Hi Aksel.

My favourite rm-compliant renderer is air, because it's much cheaper than prman and in my opinion the most mature renderer after prman working with soft/max/mayaman. But before you gonna buy maxman ask the guys at AL what their future plans for maxman are. i wouldn't buy maxman if i can't be sure that it's gonna be developed further in the future. the development of softman for example has stopped about a year ago. and who knows if AL is still developing maxman, since the last release is from june 2002.

AL indeed has to take a look at maxman, because of the new stuff in PRMan 11, but this should've nothing to do with your problem. Air has many of the new fancy features of PRMan 11 for a longer time now.(like raytracing, gi, ..). You get the warnings because some of the air options have been replaced with new attributes in the latest release, and some options are no longer required (like the raytrace shadows and reflection options). The error message simply means that it can't find the RMsoftSpot.slb which isn't distributed in the MaxMan - Setup, but available as seperate archive.

.Flinch
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