Proxys not displaying when re-opening a scene

V-Ray V-Ray for 3ds Max Issues
1

Hello,

I’ve just upgraded to 3.2, and Max 2016, and have a problem with proxys.

When I re-open a scene with proxys, the proxys don’t display. I can select them by name. Once I’ve selected one, I have to click on the “preview from file” button to display the proxys.

At the moment I wrote a little script to speed this up

objs = getCurrentSelection()

for obj in objs do
            (
                $.display = 1
            )

but it’s still annoying and not right. I’ve searched and can’t see anyone else with this issue.

Cheers,
Dean

2

What was the V-Ray version of the original file? I tried creating a scene with old V-Ray and 3ds max version but everything worked fine with 3.2 and max 2016.

3

Yes it was originally created in Vray 2, and Max 2014.

4

Would it be possible to send an example scene to: support@chaosgroup.com

5

only for the protocol, we had these issues too. possible old projects, maxdesign2015 vray??. you had to select them first…

6

same here,
3.2 and max 2015

7

Probably the issue is related to the new proxy display options added in the latest service pack. We will double check that.

Meanwhile you can change the Display type for all proxy objects at ones using max script:
- Select all of the proxies in the scene
- in Max listener type: $.display = 0 for an example

8

Would it be possible to send us an example file, because the one we already have here doesn’t reproduce the issue. Also it was originally reported for V-Ray for 3DS Max 2016.

9

I just did the following test:
*) In Max 2015 / V-Ray 2.5 crated a scene with several proxy objects.
*) Then I opened the file in Max 2015 and 2016 / V-Ray 3.2 and everything was correct.
So it would be good to have a scene.

10

i had a scene with one max-xrefscene object. the proxies did not show up. even if i selected them they did not show. i had to “browse” the path for every proxyobject-meshfile (that was quite the right one and accessable) and had to “open” it again then it showed up the proxy.with every new loading it was the same…if i wanted to see i had to load again.
then i merged the xrefscene into the file, saved the file, loaded it again and all the proxys showed up.that was reproduceable.

maybe that helps

greets thomes

11

I suppose you don’t keep the original scene?

Best regards,
Vlado

12

file uploaded, mail sent

13

We managed to reproduce the issue in our environment.
The bug has been added into our system and we are looking for a solution about it.
We will let you know when we have some updates on that regard.

14

I am also having the same problem, below is my quick fix script:

for i in $VRayProxy* do i.display = 0

Note: change the number to 3 if you want them to preview with faces.

Cheers

15

Yes, changing the display mode will help until we manage to fix the problem.

16

Still suffering from this vexing problem here… & often its time consuming trying to select all the vray proxies to either individually sort out their display or to run that script.

17

Unfortunately this is the only workaround we have until the fix came out.

18

You could use Zorb to change them all at once?

Or any of the scripts on script spot like this one (not sure this one works): http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/v-ray-proxy-tools

19

Is there any update for this issue? I cannot submit my current project to the renderfarm and rendering locally is not an option. All proxies render as boxes when I first open the scene, or when I submit to the farm.

Any updates or ideas are greatly appreciated.

20

Is there any update for this issue?
We are still working on it.

All proxies render as boxes when I first open the scene

I am not sure if this is the same issue. The one that we are working on is only for the viewport preview. The problem that you have is with the rendering of the proxies, right?
Have you tried to use the script mentioned earlier, does it help when rendering on a local machine? Also do you get any errors in the log files after rendering your scenes?