subscription : state sets

[3LP]

Hello,

I am not sure if this questions is better to be asked to Autodesk or Chaosgroup, but I like you guys better

I was just wondering is there is a way to make the state sets work with - object > vray properties?

thank you

best regards

John

[vlado]

We were not part of the beta for this advantage pack, so I'm not sure if that got fixed eventually. The only thing I know is that the info is accessible from the 3ds Max SDK, the guys who worked on the scene states have been aware of the problem for a long time, but I don't know if they got round to fixing it.

If they can't/don't want to fix it, we may have to find other ways to store the object properties into the nodes, but it will be painful.

Best regards,
Vlado

[vlado]

I'm told this should be working fine; I will need to test it tomorrow myself though.

Best regards,
Vlado

[vlado]

So a further update - it appears this was fixed, but unfortunately the fix did not go into the official advantage pack installer. Hopefully it will be fine for future 3ds Max releases.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Jens_3deutig]

what a fxxxxx!!! i posted this issues at kens blog and hope they get fixed it soon AND before 2013...damn adsk, i am speakless!

[3LP]

Thank you for the research !

Too bad it hasn't been implemented to this subscription, I was really looking forward to this.
Well, we'll wait to hopefully have it into 2013.

Thanks again,

John

[vlado]

Well, I just checked on a relatively simple test scene, and this worked fine - the matte/alpha contribution properties were correctly saved and restored with the scene states. So not sure what's going on in your case - can you post a scene here with some more specific reproduction steps?

Best regards,
Vlado

[Jens_3deutig]

i just checked it again...i only created 2 objects (plane and teapot), go to state sets, make a new state and go on record. now i turned on matte object in the vray properties (and set alpha contribution to -1) and stop recording. so when i switch from this state back to normal scene state nothing was stores and no node properties is changing like when i change something in the object properties dialog....using max2012, sp2, advantage package and vray 2.10.01

[vlado]

You are right, this does not work, so we can only hope for a fix in a future release.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Jens_3deutig]

yes, i also noticed that output path and render elements settings wouldn´t recognized too...too bad adsk.

[plastic_]

Honestly, I would have been surprised if those things worked out of the box.

[Jens_3deutig]

we should have a look into that...http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/sc...x-render-layer
vray properties are working perfectly, render setting were stored in separatly render presets, all is working just fine on a quick test...

[jstrob]

For my part I will stick with RPManager for a while! It is the only pass system that I know that is working flawlessly in production even with vray.

[3LP]

I've heard a lot about RPManager but never tried it.
I guess I am gonna looks closer to that.

Thanks for the hint.

John

[ecraft]

Because Vray Object Properties are stored and accessed from the standard Object Properties User-Defined Properties, and State Sets doesn't track changes to it, they aren't tracked. Sounds like a good user voice entry to track the User-Defined Properties. You can manually get/set the properties using maxscript, the Node User-Defined Properties, and scripted state sets.

-Eric