Spacer Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 yhi i just had to reinstall my whole Win 7 system and reinstalling and licensing all software. FZ v857 is installed but doesn't "see" the Maxwell plugin.(freshly downloaded and installed via Maxwell for FormZ) I haven't re licences Maxwell yet.. could that be the problem? thanks- Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spacer Posted January 24, 2018 Author Share Posted January 24, 2018 I was able to license the Full Suite of Studio correctly, but not effect on appearance of Maxwell in Form Z... thnaks for any help. Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spacer Posted January 24, 2018 Author Share Posted January 24, 2018 here is plugin install Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pylon Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 Hi Peter, Did you use the latest installer and allow it to install both the Maxwell application suite and the formZ plugin? (Can you double-check that the installer used was named "Maxwell_4.1.1.1_for_formZ_8.exe" ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spacer Posted January 24, 2018 Author Share Posted January 24, 2018 Hi, Yes it was that installer. But Next Limit told me to install the "Studio Suite" (maxwell_studio_4.1.1.1_win64 to be exact). I did that first. They told me this when I was having licensing problems (RLM etc, whcih were never fixed.. so after paying for Nodes which don't work, I will have to use Rebus Farm anyway..). this has been a bad Maxwell year for me. end of rant. what should/could I do? thanks- Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spacer Posted January 24, 2018 Author Share Posted January 24, 2018 " about 2 months ago added by José María del PozoDear Mr OBrien,Please try to install first Studio, it will install Render Node software (if it is not installed and in case it is, it ask to uninstall it and install the proper version...)Do not hesitate to ask us if you need more helpBest regards" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spacer Posted January 24, 2018 Author Share Posted January 24, 2018 ok, i got it to work. don't know why it took so many tries. Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pylon Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 Peter, Good to hear that you got it sorted. However, you should always install the Maxwell suite that comes inside the formZ for Maxwell installer, otherwise you may have incompatibility (versioning) issues. The render node software is in the bundled Maxwell Suite, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spacer Posted January 25, 2018 Author Share Posted January 25, 2018 Pylon, does Maxwell Studio get installed in that case as well? Best and thanks again- Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pylon Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 Hi Peter, Sorry, I see now that you need Studio as well. In this case, I recommend: 1. Make sure you have the correct version of the Studio installer. 4.1.1.1, in your case 2. install the plugin first, along with its version of Maxwell. 3. Make sure this runs in formZ, then close formZ 4. Run the Maxwell Studio installer. It will give you the option to remove/overwrite the existing Maxwell installation. Choose that option, then continue with the installation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spacer Posted January 25, 2018 Author Share Posted January 25, 2018 so I should uninstall and ollow your procedure? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pylon Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 If the plugin for formZ and Studio are both working properly, then leave your installation as-is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkcn Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 Hello Pylon, We have installed FZ8.6 with V-Ray plugin, expecting to have the both worlds... Anyway, the display freeze and we were not able to work with. Do you know if there are some issues with FZ 8.6? How can we re-install FZ 8.5.6? Do we need to desinstall FZ 8.6? Best regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Des Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 I asked the same question some time ago (whether Maxwell and Vray can be installed together). I didn't want to risk it so I run one FormZ v8.5.7 with Maxwell 4.1.1.1 and FormZ v8.x with Vray. It would be nice if we could run both in the same version of Fz like we can with Renderzone. FYI, even though Vray looks very promising especially with speed of rendering, I won't abandon Maxwell. If you have the time, it still produces the best realism. Des Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pylon Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 Hi pkcn, I asked ADS about this, and they indicated that they did not have any problems running Maxwell and Vray on the same installation. I requested access to Vray so I can test this myself; I'm not sure how long that will take to process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkcn Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 Hello, We installed Maxwell with FZ 8.6, but with no VRay plugin; we still have the same problems of frozen display and/or unoperationnal dialog boxes (ie: choosing a HDR file in the light dialog boxe is impossible). It seems to be a compatbility problem with FZ 8.6 and not wit V-Ray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pylon Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 Hi pkcn, Okay, thank you for the additional information. Something was changed in formZ 8.6 which has disabled certain buttons on Windows (only). For now, please use formZ 8.5.7 with Maxwell. We will work with ADS to resolve this issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spacer Posted February 1, 2018 Author Share Posted February 1, 2018 as of PKCN's post, this should be a different thread, methinks...i could be rong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkcn Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 Hello, To be clear: We first installed FZ 8.6, then MXW plugin; some buttons in dialog boxes dont work. We then desinstalled MXW and installed VRay plugin; no more problem with buttons. We are not able to re-install FZ 8.5.7; a message informs us that we allready have a newer version yet installed. So we are unable to work anymore with MXW, which is a problem because our workflow is based on it (and we are very happy with) We will be happy to have the both plugins (+ Renderzone), depending of the time we have to make the job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pylon Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 Hi pkcn Yes, on Windows you'll need to first uninstall 8.6, then reinstall 8.5.7 http://www.formz.com/products/formz/update/formz_857_Pro.html (And after that, you can reinstall 8.6 as well, if you like.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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