Crash with Bercon tile

[arqrenderz]

How to reproduce the crash
Create a material with bercon tile in the diffuse, load a multitexture into it, assign to a model and put  uvmap with real world scale, start interactive render, move the uvmap. Crash 80% of the times

please HELP!

using 3dsmax 2023.3
Corona 9.1

[TomG]

The minidump is always useful when there's a crash, can you send one over?

[arqrenderz]

Updated the first message with minidump and a simple max scene

[TomG]

Thanks!

[lupaz]

It always happened to me too but never reported it because the warning says it's not compatible with corona.
I assumed it just wasn't officially supported.

[Avi]

Hi,

This is a known issue. When using IR along with Multitexture in bercon tile mode, you should see the following warning "MultiTexture” map in 'BerconTile' mode is not working with interactive rendering and a link to the article: https://support.chaos.com/hc/en-us/articles/4528313539473

[arqrenderz]

I remember it working on previous corona versions :(

Also the Corona tile material is being requested a long time ago, its on the second position of the most wanted feature list but no were to be found on the trello board.

[romullus]

I remember it working on previous corona versions :(

I guess it's the same as with Substance plugin for 3ds Max - you can work with it for a while, but you do one wrong move and the Max will crash.

[maru]

I remember it working on previous corona versions :(

I don't think so, unless it was a very different use case. This issue has been around for a very long time.

[pokoy]

I remember it working on previous corona versions :(

Also the Corona tile material is being requested a long time ago, its on the second position of the most wanted feature list but no were to be found on the trello board.

A while ago, there were 2 or even 3 different BerconMaps recompiles available. Chaos (Chaosgroup back then) used to provide their own recompiled version on github I believe, and then there's the 'official' one on github, too, which is being maintained by someone else (not the original developer) - link: https://github.com/Bercon/BerconMaps/tree/master/src/DLL

I remember that using the one maintained by Chaosgroup used to crash for me while the other one was more stable. Your problem might lead to a crash regardless of the source but if you're not sure where your plugin files came from, maybe it's worth trying another plugin recompile source and see if that works differently.

Things might have changed by now though, maybe there's only one version actively maintained and available for newer Max versions, not sure...

[steyin]

I'm using the github build on 2021 and haven't had any issues in IR. I'd try that build out as mentioned by pokoy.

[lupaz]

Thanks for that info.
I'm using Max 2023 and there seems to be only one recompile, the one at github (https://github.com/Bercon/BerconMaps/tree/master/src/DLL).