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Version 4.2.6 - 10 Jun 2019

Additions:

• Added support for 3ds Max 2020.

Fixes:

• The bounding box of a referenced mxs is not including the origin of the scene anymore so if you try to center the pivot on the reference, it will actually center on the geometry.
• The plugin was ignoring Max's region render parameters when launching the render to the network. Now it should be taken into account.
• Launching animation renders directly (without using Maxwell sequence rendering) sometimes skipped some frames when doing it from 3dsmax 2017, 2018 or 2019. It is now fixed.
• 3ds Max crashed if you tried to export to mxs without having Maxwell set as render engine.

Improvements:

• The asset tracking tool now is aware of mxm and mxs references so you can use it to repath the references to a different folder easily.

Version 4.2.5 - 05 Feb 2019

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• Updated the Vray to Maxwell converter script so it can handle Metalness parameter correctly.
• Tweaked some Vray to Maxwell conversion details in the case a falloff map is used in Reflect when doing metals so the converted material resembles the original more closely.

Version 4.2.4 - 05 Sep 2018

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• In the case of Assistant Materials, when loading a bitmap the parameters disappeared from the UI.
• Maxwell bitmap was showing only part of the parameters when loaded into an assistant.
• Override Map functionality was not working at all in the case of assistants.
• Occasional crashes when manipulating the Maxwell bitmaps parameters in the assistants.

Known  Known issues:

• Still, there are some quirkinesses in the interface when using the assistants that would require a bigger restructuring of Maxwell bitmap.

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• Maxwell was not available as render engine in 3dsmax 2015 or older.
• Maxwell Parameters camera panel was missing from Target and Free cameras.
• The channels' output formats were including HDR and BMP, which are not supported by Maxwell; it was saving the channels as EXR. Now those formats are not available.
• Some of the channels' output formats were not showing in their drop-down menus in Windows 7, as they didn't fit in the box.
• 3dsmax was crashing when the Object Properties dialogue was called and Maxwell was not the current render engine.
• Scenes made with the previous versions of the plugin were not opening in 4.2.2. Now they will. (WARNING: please, notice that most probably the scenes saved with version 4.2.2, which was removed from downloads, won't open in 4.2.3; the ones made with 4.2.1 and older will)
• The interface of the new Material Preview Options in the Material Editor, was a bit misaligned and too tight on the sides.
• 3dsmax 2019 was getting frozen when previewing Maxwell Bitmap in Material Editor in Slate mode and in some particular cases.
• MxLight target line was disappearing from viewport as soon as the Mxlight gizmo was moved out of the viewport.
• Some lines in MxLight Projector Gizmo were showing too big or too small depending on the units used in the scene.
• The radius of the MxLight, Area type, with Geom set to Sphere was not changing in the render according to the radius shown in viewport.

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Improved:

• The falloff and highlight cones of the MxLight Spot type won't show in the viewport when the light is not selected (so the viewport is cleaner and ligther).

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Now you have three options:

• Container ID: with this option, it will show the object ID of the mxs reference object, so you can specify it in Appearance tab; it will be the same for all the objects inside the reference; the object ID color of the objects inside the reference won't be taken into account.
• Content ID: with this option, the reference will show the object ids of the objects inside the reference, so they can be many different ones; the object ID color of the mxs reference object itself (the container), will be ignored.
• Recolor: this option will give new object IDs to every object inside the mxs reference in a consistent way, so every time you launch a render they are the same.

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• Dependencies included in MXS references were not taken into account when doing a pack and go.

• In material editor, you could not drag and drop textures from the slots of a coating component (layered material).

• Preview scene zoomed out on updating material selection.

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Version 4.2.1 - 21 Feb 2018

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Version 4.0.6 - 21 Dec 2016

• Integrates the 4.0.0.12 render engine.
• Added support for Maya 2016.5

Version 4.0.5 - 02 Dec 2016

• Integrates the 4.0.0.11 render engine.

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• fixed: No viewport display for maxwell nodes
• fixed: Crash in mxlight
• fixed: Displacement was always exported as on
• fixed: Location settings were disabled when the sun was turned off
• fixed: Maxscript error when cameras contain newline characters

Version 3.0.30 - April 29th 2014

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