Unrecoverable Crashes

[MoonDoggie]

I've been having quite a few unrecoverable crashes. I can't seem to replicate it, but it happens after applying a diffuse map to a vraymtl, rendering (with gi) and then right clicking the diffuse slot on the material and hitting "clear"...

Any ideas? Max closes, asks if I want to try and save the scene, and I hit ok, and it says "Recovery failed" and I lose my work.

Specs: Max9 32bit// RC3

UPDATE!!!!
Reproducable: across several machines

Do this:
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-open a new scene
-open material editor
-create a vraymtl in any slot
-assign any bitmap to the diffuse slot of the vraymtl
-check the visible in viewport checkerbox to make the diffuse appear in the viewport
-go up one level back to the vraymtl level
-right-click the diffuse 'm' and click "clear"

Max will hold for 2seconds and then crash giving you an unrecoverable error

Vray or max related?


-Colin

[percydaman]

reproducible on max 9 but fine on max 8

[Morbid Angel]

sound like display problem with max9 and vray mtl

[posterus]

just tried exactly as you said but cant reproduce the crash.
max 9 64bit/vray 64 bit

[MoonDoggie]

It is reproduceable on the 32bit versions of max 9 and vray rc3

[vlado]

This is a problem in 3dsmax 9 specifically and happens because of changes in the 3dsmax SDK. It should be fine for newer builds.

Best regards,
Vlado

[MoonDoggie]

many thanks, it was just very annoying today when I lost 20m of work.

-Colin