kevinmcgowan

Hey Scott, the file that was particularly bad was about 750MB. I tried to use xref's in the file originally but that crashed over the network instantly. We are using Version 2013.0.2.1590, as you says it's very buggy. I think we will try running the manager on a Windows 7 machine. Thanks for your advice.

Thanks for the info Salvador.

Hey All, we have upgraded to 3ds Max 2013 and we have had constant headaches with the Manager. When viewing jobs in the Monitor, if you change priority or try to delete jobs it crashes a lot!. It's not with every job but enough that it's a real issue. Bigger jobs seem to be the worst. You literally can not not touch them without the Manager crashing. The bigger jobs that have been sent at the moment are Max 2011 files, so we don't have a great benchmark as to whether it's as buggy with big 2013 files. We are also running the manager on Windows Server 2003. I would love to know if anyone else is having issues. If not, what are you running the Manager on, or if you have any other ideas as to what could be causing our issues. Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

Makes perfect sense Scott, I wonder if you change the art slightly in Photoshop whether that fits into the same parameters?. It resembles the artwork but it's not a perfect copy. One other thing, do you guys have sites that you use to get artwork. I noticed Art.com allows you to buy prints but not digital usage rights like Istock. Does a website exist like istock for art?.

Interesting Jeff, I hope it's not a slippery slope over the years. If we have to watch copyright on every single item, it would be crippling to our industry. Thanks again for the feedback.

Thanks for the insight Scott, it's very confusing but you make some valid points.

Thanks for the feedback guys. Jeff I know you can't say the companies name but do you know anymore specifics?. I am assuming that you may run into problems if you use a very specific piece of artwork in a very high profile job. I think you are less likely to run into problems if you use a mass produced piece of artwork in a not so high profile job. What I can't understand is if companies have run into problems with artwork copyright, surely other things such as furniture, cars etc are all subject to some sort of copyright as well?. Thanks again for the feedback.

Yeah that would be my main worry, thanks for the feedback Steve.

I guess that depends on whether their products look good in the renders.

There goes the t-shirt idea!.

I guess though, I can't grab one of your renderings off your site and do with it as I wish, right?.

Very true, the same can be said for furniture. We make exact replicas but we don't worry about the copyright of the design.

I agree Stephen but since our renders are ultimately used for marketing doesn't the artist have a say on how their artwork is used?. For example we can't just use any random music we want, it has to be royalty free. I just wonder if this applies to artwork as well.

Hey All, I have a general question regarding the use of Artwork in renders of interiors etc. Say you have a piece of artwork hanging on the wall, does the artwork have to be royalty free?. If so, it seems very restrictive. Is there a time limit where artwork becomes public domain?. All in all I guess my question is, what are the boundries, if any?.