Tango Posted March 9, 2010 Report Share Posted March 9, 2010 Hi, I have run into problems setting-up Mforge with v8 on a MacBookPro osX 10.5.8. The main issue had to do with the lack of installation info, although Mforges ships with lots of documentation and tutorials. I reported rendering black frames, Ian suggested that it may be encoded for the wrong dongle. The Igors got me a different build and I can now render with the shader. Nice, but there are still some issues specially using the preset materials. With some materials, Camera reports an error, it can't find "RampBase.shd". I don't have such a shader and don't know if I should try to get it or just forget about the materials using it. Not such a big deal. Sometimes, a preset material will render black. I can get it to render properly by adjusting the diffuse color. Just a wiggle, it seems to (wake it up) allow it to render. Another one is the missing "Reflection/Blur" map. If I locate it, it fails to render, but if I select a different map, like "Reflection Image", it works fine. As if it didn't like the blurred image. Both files are "EIAS animation files" but when I toggle the "Native Image/Shader Files" option, the requested file is greyed-out. The reflection maps used in the creation of the preset materials, were located in a specific volume. The program loses the path to these maps when I use the preset materials. It's a small annoyance, is there a way to fix this other than selecting each one, re-assigning the map and re-saving the file? Presets are not necessary but they are a great way to get up to speed. I am getting there, slowly but getting there. Christian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Egger Posted March 10, 2010 Report Share Posted March 10, 2010 Ola Tango, one tip: "Reflection/Blur" = probably the “/†character is giving the prb to Camera because of the new OSX, change the name to Reflection Blur.img Thanksss Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igors Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 Hello Christian "Reflection/Blur" is a popular issue. With moving to Universal Binary the file path convention was changed by Apple, the symbol "/" is now a path separator and old files with such name could not be opened. Please rename it (for example into "Reflection_Blur") and re-save material. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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