I have received several reports of my “Greeble” plugin crashing under Max 2010 and Windows Vista.

I’d like to get a reality check here—I do not have Vista installed on any of my computers—Just Windows XP 64—So I have no way of testing this problem.

Is anyone out there successfully using Windows Vista with Max 2010 and my Greeble plugin?

If Greeble is in fact crashing under Vista, does anyone know of other plugins that do the same thing?

I have to admit, I’m not really that inclined to go out and shell out the bucks for a copy of Vista to test and debug this crash, especially in light of the fact that Vista is not a very popular OS and Microsoft is releasing Windows 7 now anyway.

Any responses appreciated.

Tom Hudson
http://max.klanky.com

Hi Tom,

just tried it here in 32-bit Vista and it didn’t crash.
I can’t try the 64-bit version in Vista because my work box is XP64.

Dave

MAX Plugins.de - the database for 3ds max plugins

Hey Tom,

I’ve got Vista64 installed, and when trying both the 32-bit and 64-bit flavors of Greeble under Max 2010 SP1 - and it isn’t crashing here.

And it also seems fine under Win7 64-bit as well from initial tests. :)

Has anyone who mentioned the crashes mention that they have other plug-ins or scripts installed?

-=Beau

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Interesting!  Thanks for the feedback.

Beau, so far nobody has said anything about other stuff that is installed, but I have asked about specific configurations in hopes of narrowing it down a bit.  I’m wondering if it might be something that was cured in SP1.

If there was a significant problem with the build, I’d assume I would have heard more complaints about it—As it is, I’ve only received a few emails (out of over 9000 copies of Greeble2010 downloaded).  So it does make me wonder just what is up.

Speaking of which, you know what’s really kind of sad?

I give Greeble away for free.  When I released Greeble for Max 2010, I put a little click-to-donate box up on my site for a local wildlife rehabilitator, thinking that people who got a little fun out of Greeble might be willing to donate a dollar or two to help out these people who help injured animals get back on their feet.  To date, they’ve received a whopping $122 in donations!  From just 10 donors.  Out of 9000 downloads!

If every person who downloaded Greeble had donated just ONE LOUSY DOLLAR, Pine View Wildlife Rehab could have completed a number of projects they are working on for their animals, or bought a lot of food for the injured hawks, foxes, owls, eagles and other animals that they care for.

It sure is disappointing.  I was very excited about the concept of this plugin doing something good in the world with a bunch of little donations from Max users—Talk about a letdown.

Incidentally, I want to send a big THANK YOU to the people who did donate:

Kim Goossens
john lightbody
Fire Mist Media
Higher Power Web
The Animation Mill, inc.
Karsten Peters
Alexander Eigner
John Rand
Petros Proestos
Kevin Nicholson

Pine View Wildlife Rehabilitation is grateful for your help.  And I appreciate the fact that you took the time to help out.

Tom Hudson
http://max.klanky.com

Good point Tom.

I just submitted my own donation on your site to help the cause.

-=Beau

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Hi Tom,

I know just what you are talking about. The idea of donations is a good one, it’s just that hardly anyone does it. I’ve had a donation button at maxplugins.de for a couple of years now, and I can count the number of donations I’ve received on both hands and one foot. And at least 4 of those were from one person.

To be honest, it’s not much different for programmers selling their plugins. Even if it only costs a few dollars, it’s only a matter of days before it’s been cracked and pirated. The “internet mentality” seems to be everything is for free, and the people actually doing the work to create the plugins get ignored.

Anyway, good luck with the Donation scheme, maybe a few more donations will come in now.

Dave

MAX Plugins.de - the database for 3ds max plugins

I’ve been trying to download Greeble to my x64 machine and Max 2010 after changing over from the x32 and Max 2008. When I extract the files and open the x64 file, nothing happens. It doesn’t show up in Max either.

I also read through the emails on this post and was sorry to hear that hardly anyone contributed to your wildlife cause. I’m one of the guilty—until about 5 minutes ago, when I sent a donation. Hope it helps.

Bardipper
3ds Max 2011 (64-Bit)
(2) Intel Xeon W5590 @ 3.33GHz
Windows 7
12GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800

I use the 32 bit version on my laptop running vista with max 2010 with no problems at all.

At my school they run vista 64 bit and max 2010, and the 64 bit version also works perfectly fine. I wonder how my animation teacher would feel if he knew I was installing 3rd party plugins on school computers? He probably wouldn’t be mad, I already changed the splash screen to one I made…

3ds Max Design 2012/Maya 2012
Intel Core i7 3.07 GHz, 8gb RAM
AMD Radeon HD 6950
Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 x64

OK, I ran down the problem—It’s not unique to Vista, it’s a bug in how the plugin handles multiple map channels in modified objects, and I have a fix I’m testing now.  If you’d like to help test it out and you have a situation that’s crashing, drop me an email (tom [at] klanky.com) and I’ll send you the test version.

-Tom

Tom Hudson
http://max.klanky.com

it will be released for max 2011?