texture attachment and resize in maxwell studio render?

[Anonymous]

please
any one know why when i'm apply the material to the object its not showed in shaded window and how can i resized it and why when iam used an mxm texture it asked me quesion (do you want to find areplacement)

[Anonymous]

I havn't used Maxwell for very long but I can answer a couple of your questions. I'll tell you what I do but can't tell you how or why it works.

When you apply a Maxwell material in Archicad materials settings, specify a texture (it can be anything), then resize the material using the dimensions of the texture.

When you import a material it must be extracted (to a location of your choice) and then opened in Maxwell material editor. When you are asked 'do you want to find a replacement' click 'yes' and direct the editor to the folder that you extracted the material to. When finished save the material where you want, but don't delete or move the originals as it constantly refers back to them.

You can change any of the original pics (bump maps, displacements, colour maps etc) in photoshop and it will change the original material accordingly.

I don't know what you mean by shaded window.

I hope this helps.

[Anonymous]

Hi There'
I'll have a crack at this one too...

any one know why when i'm apply the material to the object its not showed in shaded window

Maxwell is an external rendering engine, it works seperately from archicad. If you want to see the maps in the shaded window you should also create a similar material for the Internal renderer (IR), & load the same image into it. That will enable you to resize how the image will be displayed from within archicad. IE alter the UV coordinates.
The other alternative would be to open maxwell studio and work on the UVs there.
As for the 'do you want to find areplacement' in the mxm editor, I take it you are using third party shaders.. all it means is that when the original shader was produced the images were at a location, for example c:\mxm libs, however now you may now have them at C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\mxm libs so the editor doesn't know where they are??

Hope this helps