Defect: Rendering impossible?

16 September 2015 #6589
EPHERE	What error do you get on Max 2015? Regarding GetRenderMesh, it is implemented by the object which modifier produces. Modifiers themselves don't have to implement this, instead the renderer should becalling node->EvalWorldState(...).obj and using GetRenderMesh from there. Does the scanline render OK for you? Marsel Khadiyev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.)
16 September 2015 #6600
eloison	I don't get any error, simulation just don't happen like if Flex/Physx was not triggered. About the GetRenderMesh, that's precisely the scanliner that gives that error. Arion gives no error and once in many many attemps may manage to get a frame to render, but just one. Iray seem to get away with it and render fine.
18 September 2015 #6610
eloison	I've asked the 3ds Max plugin dev here and he's told me GetRenderMesh is mandatory for any renderable geometry. Quote from the Max SDK: virtual CoreExport Mesh* GetRenderMesh This method should be implemented by all renderable GeomObjects. It provides a mesh representation of the object for use by the renderer.
18 September 2015 #6611
EPHERE	Indeed, however, a modifier is not a renderable object. Instead the object that flows through it is the one that gets rendered. The rendered needs to evaluate a "world state" of an object (EvalWorldState) and then use whatever is in the result as the end of the geometric pipeline and render that. That object for Lucid is indeed a Mesh, which does have a GetRenderMesh function implemented. Hope that makes sense. Marsel Khadiyev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.)
21 September 2015 #6644
eloison	I guess it does but then the scanliner should work straight. See attached snapshot
21 September 2015 #6645
EPHERE	That is very strange, do you mind sending me the scene? Marsel Khadiyev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.)

Title:	Rendering impossible?
Category:	Crash/Critical
Status:	Open
Posted By:	eloison ( Erwann Loison )
Date Created:	16 September 2015

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