max 2019

[glorybound]

You should hang out over on AD's site before you jump in. There are reports that you can't open existing projects in MAX 2019.

[MasterZap]

Hey Zap,

Do you have the shader that you used for this? I want to render it with V-Ray to see what happens.

Best regards,
Vlado

It should work with the "Mandelbrot" that ships with max. By default its "UVW" input takes 3D coordinates, and should render like this if you make it emit in a volume, straight out of the box.

A version of the "Arnold scene" is attached, if it helps you... but it shouldn't

(I also set it to render fast, not beautifully, to make this... there's a ton of noise, I'm aware of that)

/Z

[gandhics]

I really don't know what to do now. We are still using max 2016 and only had short tries of 2017 and 2018. They seemed problematic and now 3dsmax 2019 is out I don't think there is any chance of being able to use it in production confidently until at least 2 service packs have been released which could be August/September time.We have 2 subscriptions and it jsut seems to me that Autodesk are taking the money but not coming up with the goods.I guess I'll try max 2018 again to see if that has improved since the last time I installed it. If it proved problematic then it just feels like I'm being taken for a ride!

Well.. we has done all kinds of crazy shot with 2017 and now on 2018.
The biggest issue of 2017 was NVidia driver issue and that has been resolved by Nvidia.
2018 has some Qt quirks. But, we have not experienced stability issue compare to 2016.
We usually have very big scenes(10+mil). After I had used 2017 once, I could not go back. 2016 feels too slow.

[Jiri.Matys]

Yes, agree with Vlado, OSL looks incredible. They integrate really a lot of OSLs, so its pretty good.

[flipbook]

Has anyone been able to download 2019 from autodesk yet?

[muoto]

nope...refreshing but still no serial for 2019

[Alex_M]

Has anyone been able to download 2019 from autodesk yet?

Nein. Not that I'm burning with desire.

[Ihno]

The tail is online already.

[coolhand78]

I have no idea why autodesk want to release a version every year when the previous years version is still laden with bugs, just fix the one you have out and then once it's 100% consider adding new shit...
2018 is a nightmare and there's no way we'll move to '19 for at least another 6-12 months...

[Ihno]

I've been playing with it yesterday and it seems to be very stable so far. Not a proper production test but so far I found no drawbacks.
And the only freeze I had was while rendering and due to ridiculous high ram usage. And no crash.
I had many problems with 2018 on win 7 and used 2017 to this day but I might switch to 2019 now.
Gotta do some more test though.

[anthonyh]

I still can`t see any 2019 links for download in our account. Is there somewhere specific to look ?

[Ihno]

Same here but the trail is online. https://www.autodesk.com/products/3ds-max/free-trial#

I installed on my home PC on which I also have an activated 2018. And the 2018 is still working.
So I didn't run into this problem: https://forums.chaosgroup.com/forum/...ns-for-3ds-max
But I dont know if I'd install it on my workstation before the offical "full" verion is online.
Edit: Seems that wasn't related to max 2019 so it should be save.

[MasterZap]

Vlado, any result on the Mandelbrot?

/Z

[Bruce Hart]

In regard to the Advanced Wood shader - is there trick you need to do to use it in the bump slot in a Vray material? I set the channel to bump, however it seems as if the shader has almost no bump effect no matter how much you turn it up. Even at say 300, it's only just visible.

[Siger]

In regard to the Advanced Wood shader - is there trick you need to do to use it in the bump slot in a Vray material? I set the channel to bump, however it seems as if the shader has almost no bump effect no matter how much you turn it up. Even at say 300, it's only just visible.

Use VRayColor2Bump texmap.