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This 3ds Max blog is a team effort by Nicolas Holst, Lee Montgomery, Vishnu Ramdass and Anil Choudhary.
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Interesting post by Master Zap on the mental ray thread priority in 3ds Max 2014
The post describes the change in default mental ray thread priority and how to change this for rendering and Backburner rendering.
Slow Trackview
Sometimes caused by excessive numbers of tracks that you don't want in your scenes. Like lots of note tracks, lots of retimers etc.
Access denied error when editing the max.rayhost from within 3ds Max
Three approaches on how to work around that error.
Configuring whether your nVidia Quadro is used for iray rendering
If you're lucky enough to have one or more Tesla cards on top of your Quadro card ... read on!
Defining global functions in MaxScript
A method for defining functions as global, no matter what the scope is you define them in.
What is the maximum resolution when rendering with mental ray?
You'd like to render at the highest possible resolution with the mental ray renderer and would like to know what this resolution is.
Up and Ready blog post: Backburner 2013 crashes if you also have V-Ray and LogMeIn installed
Interesting post on the Up and Ready blog about Backburner crashing if you also have Vray and LogMeIn installed on the same machine.
Removing lots of Retimers in one go with MAXScript
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.
Importing 3ds Max models in Inventor using the Mesh Enabler for Autodesk Inventor
Another way of bringing mesh data into Inventor is available on labs.autodesk.com
Backburner user settings when running as a service
Some thoughts on editing user settings when you run Backburner Manager and Server as services.
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