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Interesting post by Master Zap on the mental ray thread priority in 3ds Max 2014
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Interesting post by Master Zap on the mental ray thread priority in 3ds Max 2014

Posted 7 days ago by MaxStation on MaxStation

The post describes the change in default mental ray thread priority and how to change this for rendering and Backburner rendering.

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Slow Trackview
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Slow Trackview

Posted 10 April 2013 7:51 am by MaxStation on MaxStation

Sometimes caused by excessive numbers of tracks that you don't want in your scenes. Like lots of note tracks, lots of retimers etc.

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Access denied error when editing the max.rayhost from within 3ds Max
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Access denied error when editing the max.rayhost from within 3ds Max

Posted 18 February 2013 3:31 pm by MaxStation on MaxStation

Three approaches on how to work around that error.

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Configuring whether your nVidia Quadro is used for iray rendering
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Configuring whether your nVidia Quadro is used for iray rendering

Posted 5 February 2013 2:34 pm by MaxStation on MaxStation

If you're lucky enough to have one or more Tesla cards on top of your Quadro card ... read on!

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Defining global functions in MaxScript
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Defining global functions in MaxScript

Posted 23 January 2013 11:33 am by MaxStation on MaxStation

A method for defining functions as global, no matter what the scope is you define them in.

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What is the maximum resolution when rendering with mental ray?
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What is the maximum resolution when rendering with mental ray?

Posted 22 January 2013 3:54 pm by MaxStation on MaxStation

You'd like to render at the highest possible resolution with the mental ray renderer and would like to know what this resolution is.

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Up and Ready blog post: Backburner 2013 crashes if you also have V-Ray and LogMeIn installed
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Up and Ready blog post: Backburner 2013 crashes if you also have V-Ray and LogMeIn installed

Posted 15 January 2013 12:29 pm by MaxStation on MaxStation

Interesting post on the Up and Ready blog about Backburner crashing if you also have Vray and LogMeIn installed on the same machine.

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Removing lots of Retimers in one go with MAXScript
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Removing lots of Retimers in one go with MAXScript

Posted 14 January 2013 1:31 pm by MaxStation on MaxStation

If you have hundreds or even thousands of Retimers in your scene file that becomes unmanageable and it also slows down opening and saving the scene file and working with the track view. This post shows a couple of approaches for cleaning them out using MAXScript.

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Importing 3ds Max models in Inventor using the Mesh Enabler for Autodesk Inventor
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Importing 3ds Max models in Inventor using the Mesh Enabler for Autodesk Inventor

Posted 5 December 2012 8:43 am by MaxStation on MaxStation

Another way of bringing mesh data into Inventor is available on labs.autodesk.com

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Backburner user settings when running as a service
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Backburner user settings when running as a service

Posted 13 November 2012 2:03 pm by MaxStation on MaxStation

Some thoughts on editing user settings when you run Backburner Manager and Server as services.

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