Autodesk 3ds Max 9 Service Pack 2 is aimed primarily at addressing Vista compatibility issues. It includes a number of fixes specific to Windows Vista, as well as fixes across several functional areas, including Animation, Backburner, Batch Rendering, Biped, Editable Poly, Editable Mesh, Hair, Materials, Maxscript, mental ray, Reactor, Render to Texture, SDK and UV Unwrap.
heh, pretty funny, they try to excuse the service pack every month thing by saying it is mainly a Vista fix, but then go on to longer list of other fixes than in SP1.
That’s good though we’ll be rolling out Max 9 soon and more fixes is more better.
lol, yes, as i just discovered.
Unless you can find a way to rollback the PB installation, which i couldn’t.
Maybe the PB can be installed later on top of it, but hey, your choice.
Doesn’t say anything except just that it is revision 2 in the text. the download file is even named the same as the first one, the funny thing is that the files are dated 4/5/07 before the first one was released. :shock:
It includes a number of fixes specific to Windows Vista, as well as fixes across several functional areas, including Animation, Backburner, Batch Rendering, Biped, Editable Poly, Editable Mesh, Hair, Materials, Maxscript, mental ray, Reactor, Render to Texture, SDK and UV Unwrap.
I spoke to someone at Autodesk today regarding our issue. He said he would escalate it up the food chain, but…
“To put in in as clear language as possible, Mechanical Desktop is history” and “There hasn’t been any development on MDT for the last few years, all we’ve done is kept it compatabile with the latest Autocad format”.
Please tell me why we’re paying thousands each year per subscription, for software that has been broken and is not being updated? I’m furious. They’re telling us that, if they can’t do an easy fix (he has his fingers crossed, but isn’t expecting one), we’ll have to upgrade to inventor. What a load of bull^&*t.
That said, we’re not asking for a fix for MDT, we’re asking for a fix for 3dsmax. They introduced the problem, so it should be their responsibility to rectify it.
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Will keep you guys posted.
-- DJ
Edit: I should say that a fix would probably take up no more than 30 lines of code…
if xref.ucs != 0 (xref.position = xref.position + xref.ucs)
