plug-in

[glorybound]

How do you install a plug-in, on a slave, when 3ds max has expired? I downloaded the EGZ Glass shader for a scene and the plug-in is a MZP file that I was able to drag-n-drop into my MAX worsksation. I need it on the slaves too, but I can't do the drag-n-drop.

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

i second that question!

[plastic_]

you can manually mirror dependant files, like plugin.ini and the contents of this directories:

/plugins/
/scripts/startup/
/stdscripts/

there may be more, depending on the specific plugin.

[plastic_]

in case of the MZP script package, it is a only a ZIP file in reality, that extracts itself to the max folder.
rename it to .ZIP and look what's inside.

[glorybound]

gotcha, thanks.

How about setting up gamma settings? All of a sudden I have a slave with different gamma settings so the buckets are rendering out different.

[dlparisi]

You could always use the portable license utility to transfer the 3ds max license to the slave and the transfer it back.

[plastic_]

gotcha, thanks.

How about setting up gamma settings? All of a sudden I have a slave with different gamma settings so the buckets are rendering out different.

that would be 3dsmax.ini, if I remember right.

[glorybound]

I'll try both tranfering license and ini, ini being my first effort. Thanks

[glorybound]

there isn't a 3dsmax.ini, but I am seeing some gamma settings in the CurrentDefaults.ini. I'll try that for now and get back to ya'll

[plastic_]

it has to be somewhere but autodesk decided that keeping it in the 3dsmax folder wasn't complicated enough, so now it's hidden somewhere in the windows user folders tree hell.