marksee

Does anyone use the dwg to pdf option to retain layers with the pdf file? I am currently creating a binder of fire evac manuals with layers so that techs and building officials can toggle layers for fire walls/smoke barriers etc... Question I have - everything is working perfectly except the layers translate in random orders - not alphabatized and in no relation to one another as far as the order in which they are translated. Acrobat cannot move layers and its obnoxious as there are 100 pages all with layers in different orders. Has anyone had experience with this? Does anyone know how to fix this? I've been struggling with this for a couple days and can't waste anymore time. I figure there has to be some type of script in AutoCAD that dictates the layers order but have come up with no options... The closest I have come is using architecture 09 (im on 10) and using the adobe .pdf convert button (for some reason I can't get it to show up in 10 appload comes up with an error in loading the pdfmaker function) however, this ignores the plot settings and prints all defpoints layers and all my solid hatches are just outlines (this poses a BIG problem for the nature of my drawings). Any advice!?!?!

Yeah - Turbosquid is 40% royalty for new members - I just wonder for that hefty of a percentage if it will be worth my time. I don't know anyone who has sold on these sites so I was curious what kind of sales to expect? Obviously this would be contingent upon the demand of the model/quality - just generally curious...

No one? Hmmm....

Wanted to see if anyone out here has ever sold models on sites like turbosquid, the 3dstudio, etc... Looking back at previous projects I have a ton of random models of misc. objects that I created and was thinking of trying to sell them on 3rd party model sites. Has anyone done this successfully? I know that most sites can take a pretty hefty percentage, but their just sitting there not being used... Does anyone have any tips/warnings/advice?? I certainly don't plan on getting rich, but in this economy a little more cant help right! Thanks!!

Perfect Thanks!!

I remember searching for this topic a while back and came up with no results... In an active viewport is there a way to increase the resolution of a bitmap applied to an object? The issue: I am matching up some vertical elements with a site aerial applied to a plane - the resolution of the aerial image is so pixelated I cannot tell whats going on - I have to keep rendering then shifting etc... starting to kill productivity. Hopefully there is a way to do it - or is it a video card issue? thanks!

It works!!! installed the hotfix patch and service pack and no problems!!! thanks so much... some images of the movie attached... First two from the movie, and the second for presentation board... thanks again!!!

It does help... at least it gives me some direction. It just seems weird that it would render normal with no change in perspective but error in camera mode... very odd....

no.... i have not tried the physical camera... I have not used it but perhaps I should give it a shot. It doesn't render at all.... Backburner returns the error "task error: an unexpected exception has occurred in the network renderer and it is terminating." I don't even think it gets as far as assigning the frame.... it calls up the V-Ray dll and then crashes... *** i just tried the vray physical camera and it errors too....

Also have merged everything to a new file without any cameras.... no change

I am getting desperate to find a solution to the following problem - nothing I do is working. I have a scene that I have been working on for about 4 months now, an animation for a new hospital that has gone through many revisions. Anyway, Half way through our office switched from viz 08 to max design 09, still using vray. I had absolutely no problems with viz, but the switch played havoc with my model. I finally got everything mapped back correctly and now I cannot render a camera view. If I switch to perspective from that camera, not moving an inch, it will render, but if I go back to the camera backburner will error every time. If it were for stills, no problem except that this file is for a movie - obviously if I can't render w/ a camera I'm in trouble. Does anyone have any suggestions for what I might be able to try? It doesn't matter if its a freecam or target cam, new or old... no difference... please help!!!

Has anyone tried rendering particle systems in vray 1.5 in 3ds max design 2009? Is there any reason why my render slaves would error while rendering? There is not a problem with the file before I introduce the particle system - renders as usual. However, as soon as I introduce.. say blizzard, the servers will error and the file will no longer render even if I take the particle system back out.???

Has anyone ran into a problem w/ Vray/backburner where after calculating irradience and light cache maps the rendering times jump 10 fold? I am working on a scene that takes less than 8 minutes to calculate both maps and render, but when I choose from file and point to the two maps the render time jumps to over an hour and 40 minutes -- same settings, same computers. To check if it was a connection issue I loaded the maps on the local computer as opposed to accessing them via the network and no change. I am in viz 08 and vray 1.5 - using backburner. After looking into things further I am convinced that the problem is in the irradience map. I got an error during calculation that said -after calculating- error saving irr. map and it would re-render that scene and be fine. I set both primary and secondary to light cache and the frames are rendering in a little over 2 minutes. Any suggestions?

Is it possible to run render servers from more than one backburner manager? In other words, I have (4) machines that I run via remote desktop from my laptop. I have another machine that I would like to be able to render to the servers from as well. In the backburner settings I only see one place to enter the manager name or ip address, is there a way to add another one for the other machine I want to render from as well? Thanks!

You could probably use a morper modifier if you are using 3ds max. Model the flower open as well as closed and morph the closed into the open?