[Ulundel]

This is hell!

I've worked about 6 hours on a really cool battle render with dozens of effects. And now when I start to render it, something appears wrong with beam effects. I don't change anything but just render it again. And what do I get - every time I try to render it now, it tells me that max has caused an error and needs to be closed. And no matter what I do, still the same.

I work for ****ing 6 hours and get ziltch.

****! *opens Lightwave to show everyone how much he hates Max*

[Knight Templar]

[nelson muntz] ha ha! [/nelson muntz]




This is almost on par with those Lightning marshal and Port missions of mine that got screwed..

[Stealth]

there were only two FSPORT missions that got messed up, weren't there?

[Ashrak]

err ten u know those cool beam effects i showed you ... right anyway the deal is i can only do ship pearcing effects with em unless i fond out how to slice the beam shorter

[Galemp]

Why kill yourself? It would deprive an0n of the pleasure of doing so.

[Ulundel]

Nah, that would make me a nice person

but I'm screwed anyway....

[Stryke 9]

THIS is why you make multiple copies of things for a long job.

[Ulundel]

I have copies but since the error is coming from a certain lens effect (which basically is the whole point of this render), I have no use of them.

[Pera]

MAX tends to srew up lens effects sometimes. Nothing you can really do about it.

Why are you using MAX for space renders if you have LW?

[Nico]

Originally posted by Pera
MAX tends to srew up lens effects sometimes. Nothing you can really do about it.

Why are you using MAX for space renders if you have LW?

because LW is not better?
never had any pbs with lense effects btw. only the Starfield effect.
ToT, hav you tried moving your lense effect in the video post list, dunno, put it first or something? it often fixes problems. if that fails, check if the effect is not longer or shorter than the effectice animation sequence ( yeah, even if you just render the first frame for a still shot ).

[Pera]

Originally posted by venom2506
because LW is not better?

It isn't? I always thought LW was better than MAX for rendering purposes, especially space scenes. I don't own LW though so I don't know.

I've sometimes had strange occurances when a certain scene refuses to use a certain lens effect. You can move it around in video post, remove it, put it back, but it just doesn't work.

Of course this is MAX 3, so newer versions may not have these problems.

[Ulundel]

Max 0wns, I have LW to just fill up my HD.

And it only happens when using lens glows.

[Stryke 9]

Reinstall the lens plugin. Render. Done.

[Nico]

Originally posted by StrykeIX
Reinstall the lens plugin. Render. Done.

lens plugin? lens effect is a built in feature of the builtin videopost module. the only way to do that is to reinstal max.

[Stryke 9]

Well then... MAX sucks- get a modular program. Or reinstall it if you want it to work.

[Ashrak]

lightwave rocks

[Nico]

Originally posted by StrykeIX
Well then... MAX sucks- get a modular program. Or reinstall it if you want it to work.

no. YOU suck.
ah, feels better.

[Ulundel]

Originally posted by Ashrak
lightwave rocks

Yeah, it rocks. When you really want to screw things up and piss yourself off.

Nothing, it still sometimes doesen't like the lens glow...well, that means I have to quit rendering and model something.

[Ashrak]

seee thats why LW rocks u can just replace the stuff in seconds

[an0n]

Originally posted by GalacticEmperor
Why kill yourself? It would deprive an0n of the pleasure of doing so.

I'm like the Candy-man. Say my name a few times and wait till I get really bored and I'll appear.