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General CG Discussion / Re: Help with Max scripting
« on: 2025-08-26, 09:35:16 »
try this:

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    if isProperty uMod #packNoParams then
    (
        uMod.flattenMapNoParams()
    )
    else if isProperty uMod.unwrap #packNoParams then
    (
        uMod.unwrap.flattenMapNoParams()
also, I don't think you need the edit poly and force selection - so the simplified function:

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fn addUnwrapPackSingle obj mapChannel:2 =
(
    local prevSel = selection as array
    select obj
   
    -- Add the unwrap modifier
    local uMod = Unwrap_UVW()
    addModifier obj uMod
    uMod.unwrap.setMapChannel mapChannel

    -- Set current modifier to Unwrap
    modPanel.setCurrentObject uMod
   
    -- Run Pack ► Flatten
    if isProperty uMod #packNoParams then
    (
        uMod.flattenMapNoParams()
    )
    else if isProperty uMod.unwrap #packNoParams then
    (
        uMod.unwrap.flattenMapNoParams()
    )
   
    -- Restore selection
   select prevSel
)

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Hardware / Re: Networking issue
« on: 2025-08-06, 12:53:13 »
your welcome,

let me know how things turn out and if you have any more questions just drop me a PM.

happy networking!

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Hardware / Re: Networking issue
« on: 2025-08-05, 17:31:09 »
Hello,

I made a mistake in the post before. In a RAID-5 all 4 disks are involved in reading so this should give you a theoretical read performance of around 1160MB/s which is a little bit less than what the 10GbE connection is capable of.

But these speeds are pretty unrealistic in a normal production environment where clients also write data. (RAID-5 is not very good with writes)

You could further optimize the performance, depending on the workload, by switching to a RAID-10. This would cost you the capacity of another disk though.

Its also important to note, that the speed of the RAID is now the limiting factor. You could only get faster client speeds if you had a bigger NAS with a bigger RAID or SSD's.

With the new network setup you should not have these issues anymore. 16GB of RAM are fine for this type of NAS. You can always check in Resource Monitor how much RAM is used.  Are you using QTS or QTS hero?

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Hardware / Re: Networking issue
« on: 2025-08-04, 18:34:09 »
The diagram looks good now.

Just to clarify:

If all 21 workstations try to access files on one NAS simultaneously, the 10GbE uplink will be saturated immediately and you will not get full 1GbE speed on the workstations.

The read speed of each NAS depends on the RAID type used. In a RAID-5 for example, the read speed scales with the number of disks, so with the 4 disks you mentioned, you would get around 900MB/sec (290MB/sec x3 - 1 disk for parity) 

I'm still not sure why you have 3 separate NAS devices but thats maybe an upgrade for the future.

happy to help!

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Hardware / Re: Networking issue
« on: 2025-08-04, 09:59:30 »
I would not recommend using 10GbE from the workstations to the switches. This is a huge hassle, expensive and it will not work as you intend it to.

You are not going to saturate those workstation <-> switch connections because you have the same problem as before by bottlenecking with only 3x 10GbE connections from switch to NAS.

I would stick with 1GbE for the workstations but make sure that they each get the full bandwidth.

To do this get a new switch, for example: https://www.omadanetworks.com/us/business-networking/omada-switch-access-plus/tl-sg3452x/v1/

This one has 4x 10GbE SFP+ uplink Ports, where you would connect the NAS devices to. Be sure to also get 10GbE SFP+ extension cards for the NAS.

As for the Hard Disks - how have you configured your Storage Pool inside QTS? Do you have some kind of RAID?

The TS-473A also has two M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD slots, where you could potentiality setup a super fast Storage Pool or use them for Caching/Qtier.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Collecting Chaos Scans
« on: 2025-08-01, 17:01:02 »
yeah it's kind of hidden - for anyone interested:

it can be installed directly from the connecter menu -> Integrations -> 3ds Max Integration Installer

and then can be found in the quad menu when right clicking in the viewport-> Manage External Files.

Also note: when something is selected while running the command it will only show the external files of the selection, otherwise of the whole scene.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Collecting Chaos Scans
« on: 2025-08-01, 15:40:15 »
Quote from: alexyork on 2025-08-01, 14:45:57
Connecter is also good but isn't really ideal since it's external to max.

the connecter integration is just a maxscript running directly in max.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Collecting Chaos Scans
« on: 2025-08-01, 12:57:58 »
you could also try connecters max integration, which is free afaik.

They have their own Manage External Files dialog. Been using it for years now, never had any problems.

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Hardware / Re: Networking issue
« on: 2025-08-01, 12:24:01 »
ok, well that is a problem then.

If all your 40 workstations try to access files on the 3 NAS devices at the same time, they all have to share this 3x1Gbps connection. So, things will be very slow.

With that amount of bandwidth, you should definitely look into a 10Gbps connection between NAS and switch.

Be aware that if you do this you will significantly increase the load on the NAS/Hard Disks - but since you have 3 of them them you should be ok.


As an intermediate step you can also set up a LAG(Link Aggregation).

Each of your NAS devices has 2 Ethernet Ports, if you connect each second port to the switch as well and configure it as a LAG in QTS you at least get double the bandwidth.

Also those NAS Ethernet ports are 2.5Gbps, so upgrading to a switch that supports that means you could potentially get 6x2.5 Gbps.

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Hardware / Re: Networking issue
« on: 2025-07-31, 20:51:06 »
Quote from: sumeetgupta on 2025-07-31, 19:16:25
All workstations and NAS devices are connected directly to Cisco switches via Ethernet cables. Is there a better way to do it?

so each NAS is connected via one 1Gbps Ethernet cable to the switch?

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Hardware / Re: Networking issue
« on: 2025-07-31, 14:18:25 »
It seems you have a bottleneck from the switches to the NAS. How are those connected?

Also why are the NAS-devices daisy chained?

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Hardware / Re: Threadripper & Ryzen builds
« on: 2025-06-05, 09:19:44 »
can I ask why the Threadripper?
Unless you are rendering a ton of animations, I would go for the 9950x any day.
Its faster when working in max, pretty much silent when rendering, and MUCH cheaper.

I'm on the older 7950x and could not be happier.




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[Max] I need help! / Re: Scripting question / asset management - batch convert .max files to proxy
« on: 2025-04-15, 13:47:29 »
If you are using connecter why don't use the "merge and place as proxy" option?

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Is "image upscaling factor" exposed to maxscript?
« on: 2025-02-04, 18:38:41 »
I think he is referring to the "Image upscaling factor" inside the System Settings.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: MTL Override object button
« on: 2025-01-30, 13:16:00 »
I wrote a script with a small UI.

hope that helps!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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