Dual install of 1.5RC3 and 1.5FinalSpX

[Dman3d]

Looked around but did not see anything specific

Is it possible to run RC3 and Final on the same box under one install of MAX?
I seem to remember having a dual .ini with two versions a long time ago.
Wondering if that still works.

[RErender]

Nope, won't work. No way to ini the files in the root of max, you could create a batch file that copied the necessary files before starting Max

[Dman3d]

Nuts! How about two installs of MAX?

[RErender]

That works except backburner will only see the original if you were hoping to net render.

[Dman3d]

Sweet, thought so but did not want to go through it and roast anything (middle of a big
project).
Thanks Rerender.

Nah on the BB, just need to test out some of our existing jobs before we switch over.
I know about the skylight being brighter, but down know of any other changes
in rendering that might cause issues or inconsistencies with existing projects, hope
the legacy behavior helps there.

I just need to test a couple jobs to see if any other nasty surprises pop up.
We had some significant issues with 1.47 to RC3 and some previous older
updating (of course, was a little over eager sometimes).

Trying to make sure RC3 to FinalSp1 is smooth for everyone. Its killing me not running
FinalSp1, there are some fixes, improvements and additions there that I could really use
right now.

[RErender]

Cool, yeah should work fine for testing, I did that for a while here before we switched. The move from RC3 to 1.50 should pretty painless.

[Clifton Santiago]

I've got BB running on the same machine for both Max 8 and 10. As long as you have the latest, it will work for all below (excluding perhaps BB via 9... I never got networking of any sort to work in Max 9).

In fact it knows which nodes have 8 and 10, without having to tell it. I don't mean to compliment autodesk, but they finally got their sh*t sorted with BB in 2008.

[Dman3d]

Man I hope so