JUST WONDERING IF YOU CAN HAVE MULTIPLE COPIES OF VRAY INSTALLED ON YOUR MACHIENE IE. 1.09 + 1.45 FOR THE SAKE OF PREVIOUS FILES THAT HAVE BEEN CREATED THAT I MAY WANT TO RE RENDER PARTS OF ? JUST WONDERED IF ANY OF YOU GUYS WHERE RUNNING THIS TO OVERCOME THE SAME PROBLEMS. WOULD TRY IT BUT DON’T WANT IT TO MESS THINGS AROUND - WORKING TO A TIGHT DEADLINE !!!
I dont know if this is possible, but with Archtectural Desktop you are able to make a shortcut with different properties in the shortcut path. Is it possible to have max load a different ini file using 2 different shortcuts? This way one ini can have the path of the plugins that has vray 1.09, and another with 1.45? This way you dont have to copy the max directory.
VRay installs several files to the max root, so you can’t do it that way. It works for other renderer plug-ins though. Not sure why VRay need to be installed at the max root.
I’ve just copied the Max 7 folder (now called ‘3dsmax7beta’) and replaced all the references to ‘3dsmax7’ with ‘3dsmax7beta’ in both the 3dsmax.ini and plugin.ini
When I launch this new version, I get lots of Loading Plugins warnings - I think they are all duplicate plug-in path warnings.