max 8 service pack 1

[ksmeltzer]

Anyone running this yet?

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet...linkID=5573636

[mdi]

yep, no problems so far. It fixed the refine spline command so im a happy bunny

[Syclone1]

I refused to run max8 cause of the spline bugs and other issues but Ive since installed SP1 and no real issues I can find yet I mite actually put it into the pipeline if all is good over the next couple small projects Im working on.

-dave

[panthon]

I haven´t got any problems with it either.

[andrewjohn81]

I'm crashing more....but can never tell if it's because I'm doing new stuff at the same time or if it's just less stable. Sometimes the fix one thing and ruin 3 other things. Ya never know.

vray seems to work fine with it though. I've been using it since the day after sp1 came out.

hmm, I guess maybe that's only been about a week, but still no problems yet.

[shaneburger]

I am actually getting VRay errors since installing Max 8 SP1. I have reinstalled VRay with no luck.

Basically, on launching Max, it says both plugins for VRayFur and VRayPlane failed to initialize.

I am going to try and uninstall Max, wipe, and install it all again to see if that changes anything.

[rpc212]

Same problem shaneburger and a reinstall fixed the problems. Also watch out that you have your paths correct to the plugins of Vray.

[Morbid Angel]

it has been mentioned before that those plugins have issues with vray and max 8, i think there is a vray build for max 8 at the download section which could resolve those issues as I dont have any of those messages.

[andrewjohn81]

one of our computers had the same prob as shaneburger.

We have 3. I just copied those from my machine and pasted them onto hers. It fixed the problem without a huge reinstall.

[MediaDream]

Hi!
we have weird problems with max8 sp1 Vray1.47.03 (for max
and Backburner, let me explain:

we are currently doing some animations and rendering through backburner
on 4 comp, the max file has all the textures/destination paths specified through
the network (full path)

the manager comp renders everything normaly
the clients do what they want (for example a vray displacement doesn't
appears on only one comp, but the rest are normal)

and it starts to make me loose lots of time cause I can't spot the problem
source.

we already did a previous work (it was max7.5 back then) with the
same method, and everything worked just fine, fast network render,
life was beautiful then

now I don't know what is bugging, max8? vray? (please don't shoot)

when I render scenes without Vray, it's working fine (for example to save
time I render opacity mapped object with the default scanline render and
add the pass in After Effects) but when Vray scenes render (mostly the
vray displacement) there is problems.

yesterday night I did a network render again, when I came at work I saw
that after few frames 2 comp crashed (timeout??) I reassign the same
job to a comp and it rendered normally (???)

I'm really lost...

I specified the Vray Displacement file throught the network, still the same
problem

I'm doomed (I have to finish this project on Thursday, and I have
a huge amount of work left to do..) I'll need some serious coffee

edit: and I can't say that it is a network problem cause when I'm at work
the network is fine..

[Morbid Angel]

mediadream I never had those kind of problems..have you isntalled backburner 3 patch? that could be something to do with it.

[MediaDream]

mediadream I never had those kind of problems..have you isntalled backburner 3 patch? that could be something to do with it.

Pardon me, a patch?

Ouch.. I didn't installed any patch for backburner that comes with Max8,
the only patch I installed was the Max8 Sp1

I'll search for this, thank you so much!
(I pray for this to be the answer of our problems )

[Morbid Angel]

my apologies, the backburner patch is still in the beta works, and is not released

[MediaDream]

my apologies, the backburner patch is still in the beta works, and is not released

I was going to post that I can't find it
erRrrR.. I guess I'll have to suffer 'til the end of this project

Then the problem might come from Backburner? well, not really easy for
you to guess I know, but I'm totally lost, only default scanline renders
work fine with Max8 and Backburner 3.

I miss Max7.5 already..

but I can't understand a simple thing, is Autodesk searching to look like
Microsoft? I mean, do they want to release software that only works
after you applied several Service Pack? I know it's hard to spot
every single bug, but they also try to release new ver to keep competiting
other softwares and I hope it'll not turn for us, licensed users, becoming
beta testers and having to keep downloading patch/sp to have an healthy
workflow

I mean, after receving our Max8 I checked the website and saw that
a Sp was already needed to correct bugs (it must be tuff for
someone with a simple 56k connection)

anyway, I don't wana look like someone who complains too much,
I hope in a near futur that we'll not need any SP to get our software
works fine

thanks again for trying to help us

[mike.edel]

somehow they must provide value to the subscribers
ever since they adopted that "one major version every 12 months" schedule things have gotten worse

cu mike
btw: we already had problems with backburner back at max 6 - it really is a shame you have to update backburner with every version of max you install on your machine
unfortunately the alternatives (smedge3, deadline, i think there were more) are a bit costly