crash 'units.cpp'

[Morbid Angel]

unknown perhaps sharing the death.max file would be helpful to try out.
I also have never seen this, however knowing how terrible max 7.5 was we didnt upgrade.

[unknown]

cheers guys.
cant really up a file, but im trying to narrow it down this end.
we had a massive problem with 7.5 too, but i was foolsih to think that 8 might be resolved.
the next interesting thing is that a new fresh scene of max 8 with vray works fine over back burner 3. but old max 7 with the vray before max 8 upgrade is have unit.ccp troubles. gonna keep testing to narrow it down further. what a pain.

[unknown]

ok, now i reckon I have cracked it, but this happened last time and it didnt work. so....

narrowing it down it seems to be related to vray units and 3dsmax. The main culprit being the vray edges texture. So any max 7 scene files with a max 7 vray edges needed to be removed. and voila problem solved....for now.
this also links in with opening up old max 6 scenes into max 7, somehting that also caused a problem coz of the vray edges texture.

hope this helps anyone else with the same problem.

fingers crossed the problem doesnt come back!

[jacksc02]

unknown, I havent had any issue with the edgetex. Do you have a scene that replicates the problem?

[unknown]

finally found it. seems like procedural speckle and dent and cellular from max 7 scenes do not like rendering in backburner on max 8. somehting to do with real world scale. so you need to remove them from your materials and rebuild max 8 versions.
weird how i seem to be the only one suffering from this.
ho hum.

[stephan_MA]

i have exact the same problem.
try to figure out...

[stephan_MA]

solved the units problem: was an administration problem.
no access for the render server to write to the harddisk...