3dsmax 2016 sp3, ornatrix 7.3.8.30738. Either operations do not work for me. I imported a head as OBJ for quads, now is an editable poly, face orientation is correct (normals out), material ids are set to 1, standard material applied to head. Can someone offer a suggestion on what I can try to get these operations to work? Thanks. |
| Tried closing max, opening to new blank scene, creating a sphere, convert to editable poly, add hairball, same result for planting roots...doesn't work. Remove works, I can select guides and press remove, but plant doesn't work. Also, sink orientation is disabled...I cannot change values in Sink Properties. Is this a limitation with the Demo version? Because it was mentioned here: https://ephere.com/plugins/autodesk/max/ornatrix/forums/general/thread_14184.html The only limitation was I could not save my settings. |
| I don't have Max 2016 to try. I installed the demo on Max 2022 and it seems to work as expected. Plant Guides:
 Adding Sinks:
 Please try with a more recent version of Max if you can and let me know how it goes. If this is exclusive to Max 2016 we will address it there. Jeordanis Figuereo (Product Designer. EPHERE Inc.) |
| Hi, I don't have another version of max. I went back to an older version of the demo and it worked, version 6.3.4.23388...something got broken somewhere inbetween this one and the current. |
| Do you mean that it worked with a demo of version 6? Jeordanis Figuereo (Product Designer. EPHERE Inc.) |
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| Are you getting any error message or warning? Can you please record a short video showing the problem? Jeordanis Figuereo (Product Designer. EPHERE Inc.) |
| no error message. Do you not have a version of max 2016 to test this? |
| Yes, I'm investigating it, but can't tell how long will it take. Ivan Kolev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.) E-mail: ivan.kolev at ephere dot com Discord: ikolev |
| Hopefully this helps. Steps to reproduce: max 2016 sp3 create sphere, add default furball, go to edit guides, try to plant roots...does not work for me, even moving roots is wonky. add Surface comb above edit guides, go to sinks, then create button, try to draw a direction...doesn't work. |
| Yes, I reproduced it but the bug is in 3dsMax (and in 2016 specifically, later 3dsMax releases work). We'll have to write our own mesh-ray intersection function to replace the bugged one, which will take some time. Ivan Kolev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.) E-mail: ivan.kolev at ephere dot com Discord: ikolev |
| If it helps, these features work in v6 in max 2016, but not in v7 max 2016. |
| Yes, V7 works with polygon meshes while V6 and older used to treat all meshes as triangle meshes. The bug is in 3dsMax's polygon mesh that Ornatrix uses, triangle meshes work. Ivan Kolev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.) E-mail: ivan.kolev at ephere dot com Discord: ikolev |
| Please try the new nightly build 7.3.8.31142 Ivan Kolev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.) E-mail: ivan.kolev at ephere dot com Discord: ikolev |
| Got this error on my model and workflow: File: \Ephere\Geometry\Native\PointDistanceMesh.cpp
Line: 70
Function: Ephere::Geometry::PointDistanceMesh<float>::Init
Expression: Assert failed: faceCount > 0 I'm trying to figure how to reproduce for you. |
| I can't yet consistently reproduce...it's elusive. Maybe something with an open poly, the addition of GroundStrands above GuidesFromSurface only available with Show End Result off, then add SurfaceComb above EditGuides...it's around there that I get the crash. This is after I've set Random (Area Based) Distribution in GuidesFromSurface and root count to 3000, then click back up to SurfaceComb and Sinks. Not sure, we can call it fixed for now, I can probably work with it...there is some combination I need to adhere too to avoid the crash. If I can determine the reproduce steps I'll post a reply here. Thanks for your time working on this. I appreciate your support for earlier versions of max. |
