Plugin.ini Problems

[tbny65]

This has been happening for some time now:

Users (and myself) have been opening Max only to find the Vray plugin missing (unloaded). I open the plugin.ini to find that the lines contain the Vray reference is missing. I reinstall Vray and it recreates the ini with the Vray entries and it works fine.....for a while...then it happens again...over and over.

Ive come to write a .bat file thats included in our login that overwrites it each time they login (or I can run manually) and I have made the file read only for some. Making it read only seems to work but making that change on 100+ machines is difficult and awkward with tight user permissions.

Any idea why this happens? I was hoping it would go away with 2009 but it hasn't.

-T

[RErender]

I'd recommend getting rid of user profiles useUserProfiles=0

No way to avoid needing to fix each box that I can think of.

[tbny65]

Thanks (Eric?)! Did that along time ago. I suppose I will have to find a way to make the plugin.ini read only on all machines but it wont be easy..very much wondering the cause..

[QuakeMarine1]

you can start 3dsmax using commandline loading a user defined pluin.ini
dont have the exact command in mind but something like
3dsmax.exe -c //192../plugin.ini should be the command

ask F1 from max about 3dsmax.exe

[duke2]

Without testing this - would the vray DR exe support this? Does it internally call 3dsmax.exe? Could you add these commands to the vray DR exe?

[vlado]

Internally it starts 3dsmax.exe, yes. I will see if this can be added as an option.

Best regards,
Vlado