Live link and render animation don't work

[npg]

I think I finally found the issue. The 3dsMax option "Save strings in legacy non-scene files using UTF8" causes some invisible bytes to be written to the DR config file and the server address becomes invalid. Try disabling this option.

[devin]

Yes that works...thanks!

[npg]

We've also implemented a fix for this that will allow you to turn the option back on without affecting Vantage. Should be in patch 1.6.2.

[devin]

That's great!

There is another issue that may or may not be associated with this. When I send an animation to Vantage the GI and ambient light settings reset to default and I can't change them. I've tried setting these new settings as the default settings but I get a message saying "Failed to write settings". The only way I can get the settings to stick is to do an initial animation export, abort it and leave the VFB open, change the settings and send the animation again without closing VFB.

[npg]

It's strange that you get "Failed to write settings". This should happen if you don't have write permissions for the folder %APPDATA%/Chaos Group/Vantage . Can you create files there, without getting prompted for administrative access (it's a user folder)? Is there a debug_log.txt file there?

[devin]

If this is the folder location then yes I can create files without getting the prompt, I didn't see any log files.

C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Chaos Group\Vantage

I've never been able to save settings in Vantage since I started using it.

[npg]

Hmm, does %APPDATA% resolve to user/AppData/Local in your case? For me it's in user/AppData/Roaming. This Vantage folder normally contains up to 3 files - debug_log.txt, vantage.ini and defaults.vantage. The first two are created/saved every time you run Vantage. The "defaults" file is the one you're trying to save. It looks like for some reason Vantage fails to save any of those on your machine.

[devin]

Ok I see it, here's the log and yes I can create new files in this folder also.

[npg]

So apparently until now the file defaults.vantage was being created with the Read-Only attribute. I've fixed this for the patch that we should release tomorrow. You can also fix it yourself today by removing the read-only attribute from the file.

Thanks for reporting this bug

[devin]

Great....thanks!