Version 3.0.30 -------------- - added support for Max 2015 - re-added support for Max 2011 - Max double-sided materials are exported as front/back face materials - added pre- and post-animation behaviors to referenced MXS nodes - added controls for selecting the padding and format of MXS sequences - added region rendering controls to cameras - added support for hue adjustment to MxBitmap - MultiScatter instances use the render flags from the original object - added focus camera button to FIRE window and toolbar - added the name of the material to the backface material button - added rotation parameter in MxBitmap - negative values can be used in the offset attribute of MXS reference nodes - double clicking a material in the MXS material overrides window selects the material for that override - added a way to set the MXS reference material overrides from MAXScript - exposed gsChannelDeep and gsUseGlobalMaterial to the maxwell renderer MAXScript interface - added global settings for textures - added use global, mirror X and mirror Y flags to MxBitmap - increased the limit for the depth channel max depth - added back the MXS sequence rendering flag
- fixed: MAXScript error when loading some scenes with corrupted cameras - fixed: incorrect export of particle flow motion data - fixed: particle flow systems with a dynamic material node were exported with a default material - fixed: crash in the MXS reference object when no material overrides are set - fixed: MXS references didn't display in the Nitrous viewport - fixed: wrong bounding box for Almebic reference objects - fixed: emitters beneath an IES emitter in the material tree got assigned the same IES file on export - fixed: UV scale wasn't exported when tiling was off - fixed: material overrides weren't saved with the proxy object - fixed: crash when previewing some materials - fixed: crash with vray cameras - fixed: IES files were ignored when importing materials from MXM - fixed: Alembic and MXS material overrides disappeared when the mesh was reloaded - fixed: Alembic material overrides were exported improperly - fixed: wrong normals for Alembic objects imported with CRATE - fixed: objects with no name or that only contained numbers in their name were exported incorrectly - fixed: the plugin reserved a license in node mode when the active renderer wasn't Maxwell - fixed: wrong camera position in FIRE in some cases - fixed: Alembic crash when the abc file had material references - fixed: the enable sequence checkbox in MxBitmap gets disabled when turning off viewport preview - fixed: xref scenes that are hidden in the viewport were still exported - fixed: MXS references updated their geometry even when show in viewport was off - fixed: MxBitmap previews appeared darker when using show in viewport - fixed: Maxwell material viewport preview ignored the hue shift parameter - fixed: 3dsmax 2012 used a seat license even in node mode - fixed: MAXScript error when loading scenes made with older versions of the plugin - fixed: custom bokeh was not exported - fixed: the offset parameter of the MXS reference object wasn't working correctly - fixed: wrong output paths in some cases - fixed: render error when materials contain empty bitmaps - fixed: the viewport preview of MXS references still showed the old object after trying to load a new file or sequence which contains errors - fixed: crash when displaying Maxwell materials in the slate editor - fixed: the textured material wizard created materials with empty bitmaps - fixed: garbage text in the log window when material translation failed in FIRE - fixed: IES file names weren't saved - fixed: crash when converting wizard materials to layered materials inside the slate editor - fixed: crash when the wizard material was loaded as part of a multi-material - fixed: memory leak in the material UI - fixed: wrong size for the viewport preview of the volumetric object - fixed: missing frame number in channel file names when rendering sequences
Version 2.7.37 -------------- - objects hidden in the viewport can be exported as hidden to everything instead of being skipped altogether (this behavior is controlled by a render option) - added support for exporting UV coordinates for Max hair - added a checkbox in the Maxwell object parameters to control whether hair vertex colors should be exported - added a way to override the output image path - added the option to create a ghost BSDF for Maxwell lights - Maxwell lights are no longer hidden to reflections by default - fixed: wrong pivots for proxies and MXS references in the viewport - fixed: changing render settings from MAXScript no longer triggers unnecessary re-exports (particularly for IBL images) - fixed: wrong transformations when scattering objects imported from MXS - fixed: objects imported from MXS had wrong pivots - fixed: wrong frame number during export for BIN meshes in some cases - fixed: in scenes with more than one PFlow source, only the first one was exported - fixed: file sequences didn't work in MXS references - fixed: spotlight emitter had the same light distribution regardless of cone angle - fixed: crash in Ornatrix - fixed: wrong hair position when the mesh on which the strands were generated was controlled by bones - fixed: emitters created from Maxwell lights were disabled randomly - fixed: wrong MXI location when no path was given
Version 2.7.20 -------------- - when importing MXM files, the plug-in looks for missing textures in the "textures" subdirectory of the MXM path< - added the "maxwellRestartFire" MAXScript function - meshes and materials can be imported from MXS files - Max gamma correction no longer affects Maxwell material preview slots - added support for meshes with specified normals - added an object setting on legacy particle system which controls if they are exported as meshes or Maxwell procedurals - the exporter writes all the cameras present in the scene to the MXS file - added 2048 and 4096 to the list of allowed resolutions for viewport preview - the viewport preview looks for textures in alternative paths when they cannot be found, just like the exporter - the send job to network button supports animations - fixed: MAXScript error when trying to render from the command line - fixed: grass modifiers were exported even when they were disabled - fixed: crash on systems with video cards or drivers that don't support DirectX 9 - fixed: wrong motion blur for PFlow instances when more than 2 motion steps were used - fixed: FIRE was not restarted after changing IBL settings - fixed: the material UI was not refreshed after importing a MXM file - fixed: the renderer was still started in some cases even though the export process failed - fixed: crash when a MXS reference object was using animation sequences - fixed: crash when switching to a non-Maxwell material after editing a Maxwell bitmap - fixed: crash when trying to export HairFarm objects with density textures applied
