dpcaltdcah Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 ok, max is crashing whenever I open the material editor. I get a bitmap filter tables error. anyone know what to do about this??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robkar97 Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 Especially the material editor is buggy for me too. It was so in 3ds max 6.0 and I have the problems with 3ds max 9.0 too on a different computer. I will follow this thread with interest. Hope you find the answer. Robert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thierrybauwens@inpix.be Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 i also have this problem, but to me it's coming from the refresh of finalRender materials. I never had it with max materials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpcaltdcah Posted September 12, 2007 Author Share Posted September 12, 2007 mine are vray materials. this is a new problem that we've never had before either. this same computer has always worked just fine... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notamondayfan Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 any xref materials causing problems? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpcaltdcah Posted September 12, 2007 Author Share Posted September 12, 2007 nope, no xref materials at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notamondayfan Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 can u open it on another machine? if so try resetting material editor slots, then save and reopen. or try a merge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpcaltdcah Posted September 13, 2007 Author Share Posted September 13, 2007 I've tried that and it actually does work--I can open the material editor as long as it's empty--but it's screwing up my workflow and I keep forgetting to reset it after I change a material. any ideas on why just one computer has a problem?? I've noticed that this particular machine is also having filter table allocation errors while it's rendering overnight. so it seems to be some kind of memory thing but I don't know how to fix it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zulks Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 hey cassandra, I think I may have met you last summer? I worked at dpcaltd last summer and the one before that. Which computer is it? The older gray one is probably on its last legs. We basically melted one computer in 2005. If you have the time, you may want to reinstall max, I ended up having to do that twice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpcaltdcah Posted September 13, 2007 Author Share Posted September 13, 2007 hey greg, nope, doyle's gone to grad school and I'm at his computer. so really it's one of the best ones we've got (which isn't saying much). and otherwise it seems to be totally fine. If I don't have to ask fred to reinstall though, that would be great... ;-) anyway, mike never had this problem, it only started a couple weeks ago after he left... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zulks Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 I've found max to be extremely unstable in that office. Now that I use it at home it crashes maybe 1/10 the amount of times it does there. Did Tom ever come back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpcaltdcah Posted September 13, 2007 Author Share Posted September 13, 2007 the whole network in this office sucks. that's part of the problem. I'm now starting a new project and noticing that this material editor problem doesn't happen with small files and when I use the default 3x2 material slots instead of 5x3 or 6x4. so it must be memory-related. or graphics card maybe?? tom did come back but then he left at the same time as doyle for a new job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmoore97 Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 i think we had a problem like this in our office a while back with final render materials, and i seem to remember that if you set your material editor renderer to be the same renderer that your production engine is it fixed the problem. to change it open the render dialog box and scroll down to the bottom of the common tab and open the assign renderer box, then click on the three dots next to the material editor. hope this works for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpcaltdcah Posted September 13, 2007 Author Share Posted September 13, 2007 We already had it set that way, but thanks, good idea! just out of curiousity, which renderer were you using? we've got vray 1.5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visual3d Posted September 14, 2007 Share Posted September 14, 2007 Try switching between open gl -direct x or software for vieport setings...i had the same problem...but changing from direct x to gl cleared my case...update drivers and direct x. or even grafic drivers. most of us dont even update our max service pack 1 or 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpcaltdcah Posted September 14, 2007 Author Share Posted September 14, 2007 good idea, I'd already tried that. It turns out that bitmap paging was on. I turned it off this morning and haven't had the problem since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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