Fun with Reactor

[bluescreen2]

indeed you are right. i used the scatter from the compound objects menu. this doesnt wirk. in the tool menu under max 9, there isnt any scatter.

[richard_rosenman]

Hey, I just realized we are using the scatter plugin that you download for free, not the built-in one in Max. Not sure where you can download it from but it will appear in the tools menu once installed. This will allow scattered objects to be remain unique.

-Richard

[bluescreen2]

thx richard. this one? http://www.highend3d.com/3dsmax/down...Tool-3749.html

[davision]

Excuse me if I slightly hijack this thread... but presumably people looking at this thread like to use Reactor (which is somewhat broken in 9 AND still in 10).

I saw a note on TheArea that Max 2008 still has unresolved bugs which were introduced into Reactor with max 9. They are extremely irritating and massive time wasters -- so I hope that people reading this thread will get on the Defect Submission Form for Adesk and create some waves. These bugs should have been solved in a service pack about six months ago. The fact they still exist disgusts me.

This is a section of the Area posting (I don't have 2008 yet, so I can't verify accuracy -- but I'm fairly trusting)

"....It seem the problems with colision pairs in reactor are still there. You should be able to select two objects and hit ‘Enable/Disable’, but you can’t. The other method is to open the define colision pairs box, but then it gets worse. It shoud only list objects that are in an RB collection, but it lists every object in the scene, which in a large scene with hudreds or thousands of objects is painful to sift through. Then it gets worse still, after you’ve spent all afrtnoon defining the pairs, if you shut down go home and load the scene up again the next day, it’s forgotten them all so you have to do it all again.
It all worked fine in Max 8, but not in Max 9, I was devistated to find it’s still there in 2008, so please Autodesk do something about it..."

[richard_rosenman]

Wow, that's bad althought it doesn't surprise me. All the more reason why we'll be sticking with Max 8.0 for a while still...

-Richard

[jodestroy]

stupid question from here.

what kind of network you need to render those kind of nice movies test....? How many time does it need for each frame?

thanks

[richard_rosenman]

Hi jodestroy;

At Hatch we have about 12 Dell Dual core / Quad core workstations, along with a 16 core blade server and a second 24 core blade server.

The frames were quick - about 5-10 mins each with full motion blur and GI.

-Richard

[gilpo]

Hi jodestroy;

At Hatch we have about 12 Dell Dual core / Quad core workstations, along with a 16 core blade server and a second 24 core blade server.

The frames were quick - about 5-10 mins each with full motion blur and GI.

-Richard

If you don't mind, what brand of blades are you using? Dell, as well? We've been looking at going this route.

Thanks!

[richard_rosenman]

Hi gilpo;

We are using custom made blade servers by IC Technology here in Toronto.

They will build to your specifications.

-Rich

[Da_elf]

so the 16 core is that 2 dual quad core blades?

[richard_rosenman]

No, they come in racks of 8 - so the 16 core is 8 duals, and the 24 core is 8 quads.

-Richard

[dlparisi]

No, they come in racks of 8 - so the 16 core is 8 duals, and the 24 core is 8 quads.-Richard

8 x 4 = 32 Still pretty impressive.

[jodestroy]

i did'nt know you were in Toronto Richard.

You do really nice job. It's really nice to see your works on tv and on the web. Continue your great works