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General CG Discussion / Re: Anima actors get invisible after re-opening the scene

« on: 2025-06-07, 11:56:25 »

It's a shame that such an advertised app lucks the support is needed. I understand that all apps have bugs and that's normal, but luck of support shows a bad mentality of their team.

Is it alright to ask you a couple of questions?

a) How do you mirror actors inside Anima standalone app? I cannot really find it.

b) Is it normal that actors are locked in place and they cannot be moved when they are imported from an Anima standalone scene to 3ds max?

Thank you very much.

Christos

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General CG Discussion / Anima actors get invisible after re-opening the scene

« on: 2025-06-06, 20:03:13 »

Hello there,

I know there is dedicated Anima forum but it looks completely silent. Any help would be appreciated as I am running out of time.

I use Anima drop to populate my scene with people. If I save that 3ds max scene file, close it and re-open it, the Anima actors are invisible both in viewport and render. I can find and select them through scene exploder but they keep invisible.

I appreciate any help.

Christos

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Chaos Unified Login application is not running

« on: 2025-06-06, 11:58:42 »

Doing a deep uninstall seems that made everything work. For anyone who face the same issue, try to delete everything of Chaos Licensing. Go to AppData, Local and Roaming and delete everything that has to do with Chaos License server. Shut down your pc, open it again and try a clean install. That worked for me.

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[Max] General Discussion / Chaos Unified Login application is not running

« on: 2025-06-06, 11:15:13 »

Hello,

I post this here because the main Chaos forum is truly terrible. I ask for your help.
I can't make the Chaos Unified app run. I am trying to use Anima but it asks for the Unified Login to run in the background. The app is set to open by default at startup, but it doesn't open. Even if I click on it nothing happens. I have uninstalled and installed back again the whole Chaos Licensing thing. I tried to disable my Avast antivirus-firewall but nothing again. Inside 3ds max, under the System>Chaos Corona/Licensing the "Chaos account" shows me that Unified Login is not running but the reload button do nothing.

Any help please?

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Re: Multimap loses connections when saving .max file

« on: 2025-04-29, 09:02:30 »

The chances of this being a 3ds Max bug are low. I am using version 2024 but I guess it happens on other versions as well.

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Re: Multimap loses connections when saving .max file

« on: 2025-04-27, 11:42:52 »

Any news on this?

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Can't login to Chaos Cosmos

« on: 2025-02-17, 15:54:46 »

I didn't know there was a Hotfix available. That was it. Thank you!

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[Max] I need help! / [solved] Can't login to Chaos Cosmos

« on: 2025-02-17, 15:06:17 »

Hello,

It seems I can't login to Chaos Cosmos inside 3ds Max. When it asks for my credentials my typing letters act as hotkeys in 3ds Max working environment, although I click to type on "Username of Email" section prior to that.

Any ideas?

Thank you.

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[Max] Feature Requests / Re: Masks for Decals

« on: 2024-04-27, 10:45:22 »

You mean render elements, right? You would like to render your image and have decals as masks so that you could for example select a specific decal in a 2D editor?

Exactly! In my case, I have used a decal to create crossing lines for pedestrians in a road. The road is the main object with an asphalt as a material on it and the decal is the crossing lines. I wanted to lower down the exposure of that crossing lines in Photoshop but the selection on anything else except Monochrome or RGB masks doesn't give me a detailed mask. As a result the lower exposure adjustment creates a frindge-like effect around the crossing lines.

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[Max] Feature Requests / Masks for Decals

« on: 2024-04-25, 16:24:01 »

Hello,

I would like to have the ability to create a Monochrome or RGB mask from Decals in the future. The ID Mask is basically unusable when it comes to color selection in Photoshop.

Thanks

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Re: Decals not visible in masks

« on: 2023-06-01, 09:56:50 »

Alright! Thank you.

Cheers

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Decals not visible in masks

« on: 2023-05-26, 13:17:49 »

Hello,

I have found out that decals are not visible in masks (RGB, monochromatic, Wirecolor and ID (Material ID)), even if the option is checked on their properties. The only exception is Mask ID with "Instance ID" selected.

Corona 9.1, 3ds max 2023.3.3

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Re: Corona Decal not visible in masks

« on: 2023-05-25, 14:04:35 »

According to my tests, RGB, monochromatic, wirecolour and ID (with Material ID selected) don't work. Which they should. Sure, Mask ID (with instance ID selected) can do the job but that doesn't mean this isn't something that has to be checked and possible be fixed. What if I had to make RGB masks for animation for example?

Thanks for your help!

Cheers!
Christos

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Re: Corona Decal not visible in masks

« on: 2023-05-25, 12:51:31 »

Indeed it works. Why it works only with this setup though?

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Re: Corona Decal not visible in masks

« on: 2023-05-25, 11:31:16 »

Hello Romullus,

No, as I mentioned, it is checked on.