Max2011 renders fail with MultiScatter or Forest Pro

[PixelJockey]

I was going to post this in Problems, but I'm not sure it Vray. Could be Max, Vray, MultiScatter or Forest Pro. I use both MS and FP and have not been able to get a successful render with Max 2011. At the end of the rendering process one of my CPU cores remains spiked at 100%. The rendered image will save if it is set to save automatically. But I have to kill the Max process and relaunch to continue working. I don't have MS and FP in the same scene. I'm new to FP so mostly I used MS.

The scatter objects are the usual landscape subjects - trees, grass, rocks, etc. The areas scattered are not ridiculously gigantic. We're talking areas like 25'x50' to 200'x200'.

I tend to think this is a Max 2011 problem as I never had this sort of issue with 2010.

Does anyone have a suggestion on using either product successfully in Max 2011?

[themaxxer]

contact itoo support, they can help you to save a special file to find the cause of the crash.
it's pretty impressive what they "see" in this file.

best regards
themaxxer

[PixelJockey]

Seems that the render problems with FP was due to Xrefing the scene with the FP system. If I merge the FP systems into the scene then everything renders fine. Too bad I use a lot of Xref files. Usually the site and buildings are all in separate files then Xrefed into a master file for lighting and rendering. I'll have to change my workflow to make this work. And I'll see what Itoo can recommend.

[PixelJockey]

Heard back from Carlos about the FP xref issue.

http://www.itoosoft.com/forum/index....sg2553#msg2553