Thomo

Yes have tried static IP's and it is not the answer. Are you using EIAS V 9.1? Thanks for the response.

Hi Diego, Yes I had a Mac as Master and PC as slaves for years as well and all was fine. I have moved to an all PC setup due to the rising costs of powerful Macs and I use a lot of other software that does not run on Macs and I'm not going to boot in and out of bootcamp every time I want to use a PC only based application it's just not feasible for my work. Besides all that I was told EIAS worked on PC just as well as it does on Mac. It is plain that that is not the case and that PC users are at a huge disadvantage using EIAS compared to mac users. I've had this rant on other forums but it annoys me that software developers are busy addressing new features for new releases when clearly they have not fixed all the problems with the current release and have no intention of doing so. So what would be a good work flow to use my PC for my EIAS work and then "pass" off the project to a simple, base level Mac as Rama master rendering? Would I do this as a rama "file" or have to open the whole project on the Mac each time? I'd even be prepared to buy another licence from EIAS for a simple solution. I don't have a Mac anymore but I would get one if this was feasible. Any suggestions (or future fixes) much appreciated.

Ok well after testing Placer it does not really work. It crashes itself and EIAS a lot. It is not 64 bit. There are several work arounds I have discovered to prevent it crashing but it all comes down to the fact that it keeps running out of memory along with EIAS not playing well with PC graphics cards. I'm pretty disappointed and annoyed about this now. I've stressed that I shouldn't have to pay to figure out why this does not work correctly on PC for over a year now. Although I have tried for the same length of time. I think it is high time someone told me where this situation is at and if it is not going to be fixed in the near future then refund my money and call me when it works correctly. I know this can work but it has problems that no one seems to be trying to resolve on PC any time soon. Plus the fact that strength maps are not working on GeForce PC (search forum for strength maps) doesn't even give me a chance to try placer with strength maps. Maybe I'm missing something, I'm all out of answers. Thanks for any updated help.

I have only just started trying to use strength maps now and have exactly the same problem as you do. There is no testing of EIAS on GeForce graphics cards, this is not the only problem EIAS has with GeForce cards on PC. I don't see this being addressed either as I have asked in the past and the answer was "we don't have any to test on". I don't know, maybe we could put our finances together and buy EIAS a PC and a new GeForce card to test these problems on? Jpegs and HDRI maps have problems as well, EIAS is not working correctly on PC GeForce for over a year. I have several of the latest cards and it is the same problem with all.

Hi Diego, Are you using PC Master and PC slave? Or Mac Master PC slaves? I have had a problem for a long time with full PC setup but not Mac Master to PC slaves. There is definitely a problem (bug?) with full PC Rama. I have sent emails regarding this but no result / answer on this. It happens on every project at random times so seems like a bug. Any project does it so it is fairly simple to test for, just have to keep sending files until it happens. I have addressed this with Tomas a while back but it seems they don't have a PC setup to test on. To answer your question though, yes I have this problem, no I do not have an answer. Good luck solving and please let me know if you do because I think I have tried everything over the last 12 months. Best.

Hi Tomas and Reuben, I have got this working! I downloaded a new installer from the website, ran it as administrator twice and now it works. I don't know what happened, I have done this before. Perhaps not done the install twice though. I remember reading somewhere to try this for weird installs on windows. I am using the old .rsc and .plm and it seems to be fine. I'm happy, I'll let you know of anything further. Thanks for your input and help.

Command Check Error: Plugin code is not available. Tomas is looking into it now. Thanks,

Hi Reuben, Well that is very strange then! I have tried everything and so has Tomas on my machine to get it to work. I don't know what to think or do now. Maybe my dongle? I've had some projects for the past 10 months I needed it for! That's why I bought it. Over to you Tomas and Blair, can we please sort this out somehow? Many thanks

Thanks Reuben. The problem is with Win7 64 bit. Are you running 64 bit? I had Tomas test my machine and he has spoken with Blair. Blair says he has sent a beta fix to Tomas to test a couple of weeks ago but I am still waiting to here from Tomas how this worked out. I've been waiting / trying over a year to get this working. Thanks for your input though. Cheers,

I see. Maybe I should contact him (again) since I have paid already? Over a year ago. Hmmmm. A squeaky wheel gets oiled and all that!

Hi Tomas, Yes I understand, I just thought I was missing something. Interesting thing is that I can do it through polytrans but fac files come up with an error for the textures. Something about not the latest format. Anyway you are working on it so that is good news for the future.

Any feedback as a Christmas gift? Pleease!

Hi, I have asked this question before in regard to EIAS exporting a textured model, but that was in relation to .obj format. Is it possible to export a texture model from EIAS in any format? If so, how, 'cause I can't get it to do it and if not how big of leap is it to do so? Or is this just out of the question? Thanks in advance for any feedback.

Yes it is easy to control with a simple "layer mask" for the glass. Or post in PSD. I'd like to see your light setup for that bedroom, it really has pushed EI to another level. Got Vray quality to it but something more as well. I like it a lot. Impressive mate!

Yes I agree it looks ace! One small thing I would do is overexpose the view outside the window a bit just to highlight the interior more. A little more realistic as this is what would happen in a photo, not that the interior does not look great itself.

Nice clean renders Michael, great work. Yes it is a struggle to keep render time down for animations and still maintain the quality. Most architectural elements have a lot of polys to make them look any good and it just blows out render times. Not to mention trees, grass etc. Having said that I am having some success with having some elements set to only render as phong but setup can be tedious. I just moved onto FormZ V8 and it has sped up my modelling enormously. They have also worked on and continue to work on their import export and it has made a major difference. Although I have used FormZ for ever, since V7 it is a whole new package. All good and best wishes for the festive season.

Hi, What does this checkbox in the photons tab do exactly? I was having trouble with my bounced light being dark and unchecking this seems to solve it. Not really anything in the manual as to why you would use this. Many thanks,

Ahh! Glad you solved it. I had a similar problem exporting from 3DS Max using a "-" in any file name which caused no materials to be imported via .obj to FMZ. Drove me crazy for a couple of days. Cheers,

Thanks very much for your responses. Tomas has had a look at my problem and he is addressing it with the pugin developer. I'd really like to get this going as I use a lot of 3D grass. Currently I'm using proxy plugin to "stamp" around squares of 3D grass but it can drive you a bit nuts on sloping and undulating areas. Thanks again and hope it can be sorted out. Greg

Ahh it's all been asked before! :shy: Makes sense but I'm not sure that anyone has a real answer. As far as I can tell, no EIAS does not do it, not even with the DOF shader. I would be the last person to criticize but I asked this question 18 months ago.

Hi Michael, What was the file format you used to import into EIAS? Sorry if I missed this somewhere in the thread.

Michael, I just had a thought. Some models import into EIAS V 9.1 with dissolved geometry. Didn't happen in V 9.0. In the words of Billy Joel "don't ask me why"! Check if this is the case in the geometry tab of the group and slide it up to solid. Might be the answer, otherwise let's see the error. Cheers,

Hi, Has anyone had problems getting placer deposit to work in EIAS 9 or 9.1? I just cannot get it to function. It errors out, I'll post the error if anyone has experienced this before. I have approached the vendor of this plugin, they referred this back to EIAS. It has now been going on for 1 year. I have politely asked the vendor for a refund, to no avail. I am working on a Windows 7 system. If this is not a priority, that a plugin is not working on a particular system, then please give me specs on what system it does work on. The irony is that I have tried 5 various computers but none prevail. It was suggested that maybe my dongle has an issue but I just can't seem to get this tried out. I know everyone is busy but I would consider a paying customer should have some comeback on a purchased product. Please consider this in the light it is intended, to try to solve a problem not to denigrate anything or anyone associated. Please someone help me to make Placer Deposit work in EIAS 9.1 on Win 7. Kind regards,

So did anything help? Always good to know as there maybe another way to solve it. I've been through the same problem. Another thing is to triangulate all objects "before" export. This always works but is a pain if you save the FMZ file before you undo the triangulation. Let's know how you go.

Do you get a error message at all? What happens in EIAS? Crashes, models disappear? Bit more info would help. I know it can be frustrating. I do import a lot of models, but I tend to stick with .obj. Not to say others don't import. Some with errors but usually down to the model. You do get what you pay for but that is not the case maybe. If you can't send the model, send me the vendor and model code and I'll download / buy the same model. Problem needs to be solved let's solve it. Best regards