3.0.1 release notes

Maxwell

Improvements

Improved: behavior of blocked emitters in SSS objects
Improvements in the license validation tool
Windows installer now adds firewall exception properly when the RLM license manager is installed
Improved: performance in machines with many cores
Improved: performance in scenes with instances that intersect
Mechanisms for finding missing paths improved

Bug fixes

Fixed: volumetrics with opacity
Fixed: procedural volumetric noise was not using high and low values
Fixed: crash in old scenes with instances
Fixed: crash in volumetrics when created with high number of internal voxels
Fixed: crash in scenes with SSS and emitters
Fixed: potential bug in objects with opacity
Fixed: issue reading emitters with invalid emission types
Fixed: alembic material assignments, the scene default material is now assigned to objects without material
Fixed: transform motion blur with subsurface scattering
Fixed: potential crash with blocked emitters and motion blur
Fixed: potential artifacts with subsurface scattering
Fixed: potential artifacts (white dots) with IES files when there were more emitters in the scene
Fixed: problem rendering passes in -node (no gui) mode
Fixed: transformation motion blur of objects in a hierarchy with moving parents
Fixed: potential problem with instances that intersect
Fixed: potential crash when saving image files
Fixed: issue saving images from the MXI image dialog
Fixed: some issues in the license activator
Fixed: "Save image" gui option with embedded channels
Fixed: potential failure when saving embedded custom alpha channels
Fixed: failure with blocked emitters with motion blur
Fixed: brick procedural - when the "Double brick" parameter is checked and textures are used, both big and small bricks now have the same mapping (previously, each texture was mapped in a different way depending to each Brick size and, as a consequence, big and small bricks looked like they had different materials applied to them).
Fixed: command line flag -copymxi:path
Fixed: command line flag -disableextensions, which is used to avoid extensions being loaded
Fixed: overlay text with fast multilight preview
Fixed: volumetrics with motion blur
Fixed: bug in MXS references when using object/material id channels or custom alphas
Fixed: some objects became invisible in render due numeric precision issues
Fixed: potential clipping with volumetrics
Fixed: crash with emitter instances and motion blur
Fixed: recalculate normals in scaled objects were generating smoothing artifacts

Maxwell Studio / MXED

Bugfixes

Fixed: "Use override map" couldn't be unchecked
Fixed: changing material type with a global bump active was disabling the map
Fixed: blending of procedural textures was not visible in texture picker nor opengl viewport
Fixed: refresh issue of shadow/matte toggles when the material list was in list view
Fixed: mapping difference between v2 and v3 with some UV settings.
Fixed: MXED shows MXM files only when running it with material browser mode (flag -brwclose)
Fixed: "Convert to advanced" was adding a default layer on top
Fixed: issue with procedural textures in OSX
Fixed: preference "Automatically create triangle groups in objects with more than one material" was not working
Fixed: crash deleting a material that was used in several triangle groups of the same object
Fixed: crash when saving a scene after removing a hierarchy, with objects referenced by instances out of the removed hierarchy
Fixed: extension presets with maps were potentially not properly loaded
Fixed: crash converting a material with displacement to advanced
Fixed: "Center Scene" was not working
Fixed: "save and close" button was not working properly with material types (it was giving a "can't save empty material" error)
Fixed: global bump could not be displayed in the viewport with material types

MxNetwork

Bugfixes

Fixed: batch render mode was failing in some cases
Fixed: general stability improved