3DS Max 2019 update 2

[glorybound]

Update 2 for 3DS Max 2019 is here



Here is the full list of additions to the Software, these release notes catalog a lot of the issues and fixes development has made in the past few months. Some highlights (in my personal opinion) are listed below.


ALC/CRP: Update 2 has a built in tool that protects against the ALC/CRP maxscript issue. Further documentation is forthcoming which will outline how to use these cleaning tools.


Alembic: A fair amount more data is able to be exported using Alembic now! For example, MAXX-44214 fixed issues with Alembic, where importing normals would result in random geometry.


Bifrost: Lots of great features within the bifrost fluid simulation tool, including simultaneous fluid rendering. MAXX-44281 fluids scale being incorrect due to incorrect decimal separators was resolved in this update, hurray!


Cloud: Character path issues that effected a lot of folks is now resolved. MAXX-43941 MXP files no longer limited to 32k characters.


https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/3ds-m...2/td-p/8279485

[gandhics]

A little bit more detailed list...

Windows title bar on Scene Explorer, TrackVIew, StateSet

• Windows native title bar is back! You can still dock anywhere while having familiar Windows title bar and frame.

Fluid

• New Fluid Loader with playback and transform control
• Support for rendering fluids data channels such as Vorticity, Density, Age, etc. with Arnold

Alembic

• Lib updated to 1.7.5
• Instancing support
• Multi UV support for Maya(Maya needs a very specific format of data)
• File/Object assignment button for Alembic Transform controller
• High-speed rotations no longer deform objects
• Fixed Unicode support for Alembic files

OSL

• The OSL editor now displays line numbers.
• The OSL editor now highlights matching brackets
• More Realistic mode display support

Arnold 5.2

• Texture Baking is now supported with the render-to-texture workflow
• Shade enhancements include a new Cell Noise shader and new Sheen function in the Standard Surface hader to render cloth-like microfiber materials or the peach fuzz
• RGB clamping in clamp shader can now be configured to either a scalar or color mode
• Edge detection can be controlled in Toon Shader using the STRING type user data, toon_id
• The stability and usability of the high-quality Noice denoiser has been improved
• GPU memory consumption of the fast NVIDIA OptiX denoiser has been greatly reduced

3ds Max security tools set

• offer protection against the CRP and ALC 3rd party scripts.

Shared Views

• now export Autodesk materials and V-Ray Materials with textures

Autodesk Drive

• a cloud storage solution that allows you to securely store, preview, and share your 2D and 3D design data

Some highlights from 70 + Fixes

• Fixed handling of decimal separator changes in the Windows regional settings
• Particles: Restored right-click access to Object Properties of PFlow and Standard Particle system objects
• Fix for caddies right-click to zero not updating float field
• Greatly improved Python performance when comparing scene nodes obtained through pymxs
• SplineTools: Fixed pathdeform flipping normals when using flip option
• Fixed occasional crash with new Collapse Utility
• Data Channel can now output vertex alpha
• Projects workflow, users can have more than 60 paths associated with a project
• MaxScript operations on the Skin Modifier no longer require objects to be selected

[Ihno]

I'll never understand why those updates always take an hour or even more to get installed. Max is the only software I know where this is the case. I't is even faster to install the whole programm then install this 610mb update.
Edit: Took a half hour, still too much but not as much as I thought.

[anthonyh]

and of course they`ve fixed the double click menu thing... surely ? not getting my hopes up

[samuel_bubat]

and of course they`ve fixed the double click menu thing... surely ? not getting my hopes up

No they didn' t. I didn' t really follow this issue but I just noticed that it works for Arnold. Don' t know if it worked before this Service Pack. Actually it only works for Arnold parameters. Switches in the common Tab still need a double click.

[vlado]

The Arnold UI is done in Qt (you can tell by the large spinner boxes), but the rest of the render setup dialog UI is still based on regular Windows dialog controls and they still have the double-click issue. It's somewhere on the "to do" list to research how this can be done for V-Ray as well.

Best regards,
Vlado

[kosso_olli]

No they didn' t. I didn' t really follow this issue but I just noticed that it works for Arnold. Don' t know if it worked before this Service Pack. Actually it only works for Arnold parameters. Switches in the common Tab still need a double click.

I will not update to 2019 until this is fixed. Hugely annoying bug, how this has passed testing is beyond me. Hope AD might finally fix this in the future.

[Alex_M]

A little bit more detailed list...

Some highlights from 70 + Fixes

• Fixed handling of decimal separator changes in the Windows regional settings

Thank GOD! Maybe I can now actually use 2019.

[glorybound]

I'll never understand why those updates always take an hour or even more to get installed. Max is the only software I know where this is the case. I't is even faster to install the whole programm then install this 610mb update.
Edit: Took a half hour, still too much but not as much as I thought.

Yeah, it is a pain. There is a command line string that'll install it in minutes, but I haven't used that in a while. They don't test like an end user and have probably never installed it from the installer. They'll say that it has never been reported and they can't fix something that they don't know about.

[s0real]

anyone experiencing UI lag after installing the update? max freezes after cancelling a render for about 10-30 seconds for me.
can't remember it doing it particularly before the update...

[glorybound]

Not here, but MAX still crashes 2-3 times a day. NVIDIA did have an update about the same time the update came out.

[Jiri.Matys]

In max 2018, I simply use Array function to clone object, hit ok, then use undo and max crash. Interesting.

[Jiri.Matys]

Update 2 for 3DS Max 2019 is here



Here is the full list of additions to the Software, these release notes catalog a lot of the issues and fixes development has made in the past few months. Some highlights (in my personal opinion) are listed below.


ALC/CRP: Update 2 has a built in tool that protects against the ALC/CRP maxscript issue. Further documentation is forthcoming which will outline how to use these cleaning tools.


Alembic: A fair amount more data is able to be exported using Alembic now! For example, MAXX-44214 fixed issues with Alembic, where importing normals would result in random geometry.


Bifrost: Lots of great features within the bifrost fluid simulation tool, including simultaneous fluid rendering. MAXX-44281 fluids scale being incorrect due to incorrect decimal separators was resolved in this update, hurray!


Cloud: Character path issues that effected a lot of folks is now resolved. MAXX-43941 MXP files no longer limited to 32k characters.


https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/3ds-m...2/td-p/8279485

What is bifrost? I thought its some plugin. Or is it a name for new liquid system?

[glorybound]

In max 2018, I simply use Array function to clone object, hit ok, then use undo and max crash. Interesting.

Yeah, I have had that happen as well.

[Jiri.Matys]

Yeah, I have had that happen as well.

What about max 2019, is this corrected?