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RailClone Pro (*) / Re: Spline from Autocad Problem
« Last post by HU0164 on Today at 09:56:46 am »Yes, that's right.
I can't integrate this parameter into my head. It must be old age.
I can't integrate this parameter into my head. It must be old age.
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RailClone Pro (*) / Re: Spline from Autocad Problem
« Last post by Michal Karmazín on Today at 09:32:42 am »Hi,
I'm sorry to hear you're having trouble with it. Could you please describe the issue in a bit more detail? Are the RailClone styles you're using based on the spline’s Material IDs? If so, let me mention that, as noted here on our forum:
"... upon my experience, in case of importing splines from a .dwg file, its Color is used for generating the 3ds max Material ID. If you want to avoid the Edit Spline modifier step - assigning the Red color to such spline (layer) should result in ID 1 / Yellow as ID2 (as the Red color should be indexed 1 (Yellow 2) in AutoCAD)."
I hope that helps.
Best regards,
I'm sorry to hear you're having trouble with it. Could you please describe the issue in a bit more detail? Are the RailClone styles you're using based on the spline’s Material IDs? If so, let me mention that, as noted here on our forum:
"... upon my experience, in case of importing splines from a .dwg file, its Color is used for generating the 3ds max Material ID. If you want to avoid the Edit Spline modifier step - assigning the Red color to such spline (layer) should result in ID 1 / Yellow as ID2 (as the Red color should be indexed 1 (Yellow 2) in AutoCAD)."
I hope that helps.
Best regards,
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RailClone Pro (*) / Spline from Autocad Problem
« Last post by HU0164 on Today at 09:25:32 am »Hi,
I receive 2D AutoCAD DWG files from surveyors.
I am almost never able to apply a RailClone object to splines from DWG files.
What do I need to do to make it work?
I receive 2D AutoCAD DWG files from surveyors.
I am almost never able to apply a RailClone object to splines from DWG files.
What do I need to do to make it work?
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FAQ / Re: Crash in Forest Pack with Microsoft Redistributable v.14.50
« Last post by iToo on Today at 08:56:48 am »Autodesk has published an article about this issue, with the same solution as the suggested by us.
https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/3ds-Max-crashes-after-Microsoft-VS2026-update-is-installed.html
https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/3ds-Max-crashes-after-Microsoft-VS2026-update-is-installed.html
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Forest Pro (*) / Re: Use network paths for library & textures.
« Last post by iToo on November 20, 2025, 12:00:25 pm »I don't like idea of automatically searching textures in the paths what 3ds Max does using Project Paths/External Files. All textures should include the path to library. Even if I rare use any objects from library I constantly get a message about changing paths when I switch Max project folder.
Next Forest update will include a "relink" feature as option. Using it, library textures will include the full path to the library.
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Work in Progress / Re: 50% row like a regular parquet
« Last post by Michal Karmazín on November 20, 2025, 08:49:49 am »Hi,
You can place a ‘half-sized’ Segment (adjust its size using the exported value from the main Segment via an Arithmetic Operator), then alternate the rows using a Sequence Operator. If you’d like, feel free to upload or send us your scene and we’ll be happy to take a look.
Let me mention that we acknowledge that RailClone has a steeper learning curve compared to Forest Pack. In order to help users become familiar with RailClone, we have an ongoing series of tutorials that you may find helpful, as well as detailed documentation. I would recommend checking our RailClone "Getting Started with RailClone" guide followed by our "Next Steps with RailClone" guide as well.
I hope this helps.
Best regards,
You can place a ‘half-sized’ Segment (adjust its size using the exported value from the main Segment via an Arithmetic Operator), then alternate the rows using a Sequence Operator. If you’d like, feel free to upload or send us your scene and we’ll be happy to take a look.
Let me mention that we acknowledge that RailClone has a steeper learning curve compared to Forest Pack. In order to help users become familiar with RailClone, we have an ongoing series of tutorials that you may find helpful, as well as detailed documentation. I would recommend checking our RailClone "Getting Started with RailClone" guide followed by our "Next Steps with RailClone" guide as well.
I hope this helps.
Best regards,
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Forest Pro (*) / Re: BUG: network render crashes while using Alembic (.abc) for animated plants
« Last post by Michal Karmazín on November 20, 2025, 08:38:45 am »Hi,
I'm sorry to hear you're facing trouble with it. Would you mind running a quick test using Forest Tools to export all items as instances before rendering? You can find this option under Utilities > More... > Forest Tools. For more information, please refer to our online reference guide. This test will help us figure out if the issue occurs during the conversion of the Forest object or not. Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
I'm sorry to hear you're facing trouble with it. Would you mind running a quick test using Forest Tools to export all items as instances before rendering? You can find this option under Utilities > More... > Forest Tools. For more information, please refer to our online reference guide. This test will help us figure out if the issue occurs during the conversion of the Forest object or not. Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
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Work in Progress / Re: 50% row like a regular parquet
« Last post by djibvongenf on November 20, 2025, 08:05:41 am »the main remaining questions would be "why not adding a custom select mesh option" ?... and "to whom box 004 and box 003 are referring to" ?
lucky im not in charge of licencing where i work.. this plugin is total time waister.
lucky im not in charge of licencing where i work.. this plugin is total time waister.
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Work in Progress / 50% row like a regular parquet
« Last post by djibvongenf on November 20, 2025, 07:19:24 am »Hi All,
Im trying to achieve a simple 50% offset on each second row. Like floor generator would do the trick but it seems over complicated. Any idea how to do it without adding a 50% smaller mesh and a bench of extra nodes?
thank you
Im trying to achieve a simple 50% offset on each second row. Like floor generator would do the trick but it seems over complicated. Any idea how to do it without adding a 50% smaller mesh and a bench of extra nodes?
thank you
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Forest Pro (*) / BUG: network render crashes while using Alembic (.abc) for animated plants
« Last post by ZO6039 on November 20, 2025, 04:37:02 am »I use .abc files to render animated plants with ForestPack on render farm. About one year ago I rendered .abc plants without problems, but now I get many errors on Deadline render farm:
Error: RenderTask: Unexpected exception (IPolyMeshSchema::get()
I get about 50 errors on 200 frames. Same computers which had an error can render same frame during next attempt. I don't know if this is FP problem or V-Ray problem. I use FP v.9.3.2 and V-Ray v.7.20.04.
Error: RenderTask: Unexpected exception (IPolyMeshSchema::get()
I get about 50 errors on 200 frames. Same computers which had an error can render same frame during next attempt. I don't know if this is FP problem or V-Ray problem. I use FP v.9.3.2 and V-Ray v.7.20.04.
