New maintenance release of the 3dsmax jobtype, version 6.3-1 is available now.
A number of fixes, especially with the V-Ray frame buffer support, has been included
in this one.
http://ftp://ftp.pipelinefx.com/pub/jobtypes/6.3/Changes from the previous version are listed below.
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@RELEASE: 6.3-1
This release is designed to work with Qube! version 6.3.x.
==== CL 9418 ====
@FIX: added code to prevent jobs from failing when vray fb is used but render element filepath is blank or undefined.
ZD: 5515
==== CL 9415 ====
@FIX: added code to prevent jobs from failing when vray fb is used but render element filepath is blank or undefined.
ZD: 5515
==== CL 9332 ====
@UPDATE: 3dsmax jobtype vdproj version update to 6.3.1
==== CL 9331 ====
@UPDATE: 3dsmax jobtype RELEASE.txt update, job.conf version number update.
==== CL 9225 ====
@FIX: fixed to respect render type (#view, #region, etc) in the scene.
ZD: 5494
==== CL 9222 ====
@FIX: fixed render element support. fixed issue where the main pass won't render if RE exists, even when the "Save File" is ON. general render output overhaul.
ZD: 5383
==== CL 9203 ====
@FIX: fixed so that the main "beauty" pass is always rendered if the "Save File" checkbox is checked in Render Settings.
It was reported that if render elements exist, or if Vray renderer is
rendering to its own FB, then the main pass was never rendered.
ZD: 5383
==== CL 9200 ====
@CHANGE: changed qbutils.ms:qbQuitMaxWithStatus to print out more explicit end-of-maxscript line to the log.
The routine now prints out the following at very close to the very end of
executing the script:
==== MaxScript Processing Complete ====
The code to detect the end of maxscript processing in execute.pm was also
modified accordingly to search for that particular string.
@TWEAK: added a little more info to be printed to the log
ZD: 5307
==== CL 9189 ====
@FIX: vray "splitRGB" output filename fomr *.RGB_Color.ext to *.RGB_color.ext
ZD: 5307
==== CL 9187 ====
@CHANGE: added code to automatically kill the 3dsmax.exe process if it has been running for over 60 seconds after the jobtype maxscript has finished processing.
@NEW: more real-time updating of 3dsmax log output to stdout.
ZD: 5307
==== CL 9074 ====
@NEW: add automatic start/stop of vrayspawner program for V-ray DR
BUGZID: 63665
ZD: 4943
==== CL 9055 ====
@FIX: better support for v-ray frame buffer renders, including saving to "split render channels" files
@CHANGE: added "INFO: " to print for most informational logs, for consistency and readability.
@INTERNAL: The "outputfile" internal variable which was used to test the validity of each frame's output file, has been changed to an array "outputfiles" so there may be multiple output files per frame (as is the case for when v-ray splite render channels is enabled)
