STRAT Posted September 2, 2005 Share Posted September 2, 2005 the demo is online ready for download http://www.maxoncomputer.com/download_demo.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted September 2, 2005 Share Posted September 2, 2005 I'm getting a 550 error. Must be a rush to get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted September 2, 2005 Share Posted September 2, 2005 Forget the demo--when do we get the actual product? I guess I should call somebody and order it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted September 3, 2005 Author Share Posted September 3, 2005 yup, i'm waiting for the full job! maxon uk told me a few days ago on the blower they were starting to ship (in the uk atleast) very early september, on a first come first serve bases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sindala Posted September 3, 2005 Share Posted September 3, 2005 yess, I am going to try it out, and see if vectorworks exchange works. I might also try rpc. anyone tried this with cinema? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted September 3, 2005 Share Posted September 3, 2005 yess, I am going to try it out, and see if vectorworks exchange works. I might also try rpc. anyone tried this with cinema? Not Vectorworks, but yes, RPC works just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sindala Posted September 3, 2005 Share Posted September 3, 2005 well vectorworks exchange 2 works fine. i'll be trying rpc tomorrow, and see if it measures up to my girlfriends fancy photoshop work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sindala Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 ordered it yesterday. should be in next week. I've reached some impressive rendertimes in the demo. Cant wait to fully use it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 Considering my workload it couldn't come soon enough. The demo will not save a rendered image, not just a file. Discovered that the hard way. Ordered....by discs must come from Germany. I called Maxon to ask why we couldn't get a code to unlock the demo for a week or two once we paid for 9.5 Interesting idea, they said. Anyway, wait, wait... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sindala Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 Well, Germany is next door to holland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skala67 Posted September 10, 2005 Share Posted September 10, 2005 I pre-ordered right after Siggraph. Then 2 days ago I called the california office to see when we would be getting the order. Rafi (sales woman there) told me that they had not received any of the shipments yet from Germany, but that it should be within the next week or two. Someone said it right, this cant happen soon enuf... cheers, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skala67 Posted September 18, 2005 Share Posted September 18, 2005 Well, Looks like the US shipments have started. Got 9.5 in the mail today... good update from what I've seen so far... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 I've been trying out some of the new features in the demo - my favorite so far is the sky and environment system, it reminds me a lot of Vue 5. Here are a couple of quick tests I did: And another view with a light fog: The sky, sun, moon and stars come in a set, and just about anything you can think of is customizable (though I'm not in love with the way stars work). Clouds are procedural - you have up to 6 layers you can use for different types, with lots of variables. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackb602 Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 Wow, the lighting in that second rendering is really beautiful and realistic! How is that scene lit? I wonder how the new sky compares to the Ozone plugin. I've used that for a while but the interface and unpredictability of it have always bugged me. I'm hoping sky will be a good replacement. Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 That's just the sky system, I forget exactly what I put in (and I lost the settings cause I can't save) but I had sunbeams on, and I was using fog with a low strength value, 10-20%, turned on in environment and in sky and with the distance set at a little bit before the building starts. The direct sun is coming from the sky system also. The GI isn't great, I turned those setting down for speed, 50% accurancy and 150 samples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sindala Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 I got it, i got, i got it! only i'm in the middle of 3 projects at the moment, when i start a new one i will work in 9.5. I had a quick look though, i suppose the sky plugin is a seperate plug-in? because i dont see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted September 21, 2005 Author Share Posted September 21, 2005 I got it, i got, i got it! only i'm in the middle of 3 projects at the moment, when i start a new one i will work in 9.5. I had a quick look though, i suppose the sky plugin is a seperate plug-in? because i dont see it. should be under the plugins tab at the top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sindala Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 I just contacted my dealer, and they don't know whats going on either. maxon is supposed to contact me soon to see if i'm doing something wrong. i couldn't find any folder refering to sky on the cd either??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sindala Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 I got it! here's what went wrong. it's the way i installed it. First i installed 9, then 9.5 update and then adv. render. the order shoud be: 9 - adv render - 9.5 update seems logical now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.S Posted October 2, 2005 Share Posted October 2, 2005 HAHAHAHA! Finaly a cool sky plug-in. It makes ext scene setup so much faster and looks cool. Also the GI and AA is a lot faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted October 2, 2005 Share Posted October 2, 2005 Now there's some quality sky. I'm lovin' it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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