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Thank you for replying, No it was not this one. These tutorials are good too. The ones I had in mind showed up something like a month ago, it showed how to use scripts in 3dsMax to put a building together in an interactive way. thanks.

Hi, I saw recently a series of tutorials for 3dsmax how to put buildings in an interactive way with scripts. I can't find these tutorials. Doesn't anyone know what I am talking about. THank you. Kris.

I thought it was the new thing that makes computer silent.

thanks for replies, here is configuration that I am thinking about: processor: 980x or Xeon 5650 graphics card: Quadro 4000 or 480 gtx (but I will go with quadro more likely) RAM: 12 GB some kind of liquid cooling and that's another area I don't know about. I want a computer for Vray / 3ds Max rendering, video editing, and music creation I feel like I run in circles. Nvidia did a great job confusing me with these workstations and new video cards. I don't know if it is true about new Intel 995 but it is possible. With Xeon, dual cpu I would get 24 threads but at what costs and does it really make a big difference in comparison to 980x clocked higher? Also, dual cpu probably means that machine is hotter and louder and probably needs 24GB ram. I don't know exactly how it works. thanks.

thanks for your reply, in your opinion, is 2x5650 Xeon worth over 1x980x? there is a big difference in a cost. if 980x finishes rendering 30 seconds later, it would not be a big difference to me. Also, I don't know 3d studio max and Vray handles better a single and dual cpu. thanks.

Can anyone tell me what a big difference is in speed between Intel 980x and Xeon 5650? I want to use it for Vray in 3d Studio Max. 980x is clocked higher at 3.33 and Xeon 5650 is clocked at 2.66. What about 980x vs 2x Xeon 5650? Is there a big difference? thanks.

I don't know why it doesn't work now. I want to use 1 viewport as perspective view for active shading. The problem is when I use a viewport "Front" and I change it to "Perspective". It is different from my main "Perspective" viewport and they are not linked. When I move camera in 1 perspective view, the other one doesn't change. Does anyone know why that is? thanks.

Hi, Can someone please tell me if it is possible not to have black faces on the top? I have some lights with Vray and I want to make ceiling invisible to the camera but still included in the light calculation. Somehow I get black faces on the top when I right click on the ceiling and I go to "properties" and unclick "Visible to Camera" thanks. image attached.

thanks guys video would be helpful you can't set "reload materials" when you attach a file first, I don't see that option, only when reloading a scene

thanks guys, but I checked both boxes on reload for materials and Vray materials are still not preserved. BrianKitts, what do you mean by "presets"?

Can someone help me with reloading scenes in 3d studio max when importing objects from ADT( Architectural Desktop/Autocad)? Vray materials are not preserved. Everytime when I reload materials are not recognized on objects that did not change. thanks.

Can someone help me with reloading scenes in 3d studio max when importing objects from ADT( Architectural Desktop/Autocad)? Materials are not preserved. Everytime when I reload materials are not recognized on objects that did not change. thanks.

I am having a lot of problems with setting up a distributed rendering with vray 1.5. at work we have 4 computers(servers) for renderings. One of these computers has this Dongle key for licensing. I am confused with this. I remember in the previous version I just had to start vrlserver.exe on server computers. Now in the new version of vray I don't see "vrlserver.exe", there are "setvrlservice", "startvrlservice" and "vrlservice". I don't know what to do. When I start a job, error shows up that "target machine" couldn't be found even that I added server computers to distributed renderings and when I click on "resolve ip" I can see the ip addresses of servers but when I render I get an error that target machines were not found. any help how to setup DR with new vray would be appreciated. thanks, Kris.

thanks for reply, I am glad somebody else also wondered about.