Dsmax 8.0 : Strange things

sama.van

For the beginning, all the technical informations :
- Laptop inspiron 1520
- Vista
- dsmax 8.0

Then, when I create a new material, thats strange he tiles as I never seen before.
Finally it give some bad render on the 3d model and take maybe only some pixel of my texture...
The other right materials was created on my old computer (on win Xp Pro)



For Vista, I don't have other choice, when I try to install my personnal XP pro license, It say "Don't detect any hard drives..."

Then thanks by advance, because I can't work my 3d now

StJoris

The "Don't detect any hard drives..." is probably because you have a RAID configuration or S-ATA harddisk which needs drivers via floppy before install.

sama.van

Uh??? I didn't know that
Do you know which manipulation I can do on Vista for know this informations?

sama.van

dsmax5.0 don't work on vista
I have nothing else to do then...

sama.van

Oh I success something.

Just install 3dsmax6.0, the material creation work nice.
Then create a cube with one material save the current scene.
But becarfull, create a cube with dsmax6 on vista is really hard, because viewport doesn't refresh correctly...

after that just reopen dsmax8 and merge the last scene for recup the material
But carefull for the second time, if You lauch dsmax8 when dsmax6 is open, the 2nd application crash and you can kill the process...

I can work now

(I don't know if I'm stupid sometimes, but I didn't create Vista, then...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvosFZrcYUA

Eric Chadwick

Only max 9 + is compatible with Vista, as far as I know. You're probably going to continue to have problems, unfortunately.

sama.van

sama.van wrote: »

- dsmax 8.0
when I create a new material, thats strange he tiles as I never seen before.

Then I tried the Vista window classic mode and it works correctly now... I don't to know why. Just it works.

pior

As a matter of fact when I launch Max2008 on a Vista 64 machine, I get a little popup message telling me that the OS switches to the classic 'XP' look because the latest Max is not compatible with Aero. Weird! Glad you worked out your problem anyways.

Also I think I'll never understand why you call 3DSMax 'dsmax' hehe :P

sama.van

pior wrote: »

Also I think I'll never understand why you call 3DSMax 'dsmax' hehe :P

Haha don't myself...
The only thing I know is : Maya already starts to suck on the start of week...