No one has found out why Xstream Plugin Renders Black skies in Max?

#1

Wow, this must be a problem that too many people cannot figure out. Two years ago, I figured it out, but that was with Max 2009. Anyone figure this out yet?

#2

Even Vue’s default sky and lighting are black?

#3

I may have failed to mention that its the xStream plugin that Im now using in Max 2012. Ive tried every which way possible for the settings and now Im thinking that Max just isn’t communicating with Vue on render. :banghead: Maybe its a Mental Ray 3rd Party Shader issue. This has got to be the worst plugin integration I have ever seen. :argh: I remember the problems I had a couple of years ago and it looks like all of them still havent been ironed out.

To re-iterate, the atmosphere nor the Vue sun generate any illumination within the scene. Ive gone to plan B. Compositing Max objects into a rendered Vue scene from the Vue application itself using render elements. Oh well, it will give me experience with Max 2012 Composite.

#4

have you tryed to delete the vue in your max and load a new Atmosphere again ?
if this not worked try to change the render to default scanline render and change again back to mentalray

#5

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