topic Critical EXT2 error !!! in 3ds Max Forum

Critical EXT2 error !!!

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 09:11:11 GMT

The compound IsNullFix has screwed things up instead of 'fixing' whatever it was trying to fix...

Various of my tools no longer compile...but let's use official AD tools as examples.

If you have EXT2 applied, Channel Invert Color.maxtool will not compile or try Channel AddOrSub.maxtool...

Basically, anything that calls IsFixNull will more than likely not compile. The old EXT1+SP2 works fine while the new EXT2 does not

Re: Critical EXT2 error !!!

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 22:04:08 GMT

obviously I meant the IsNullFix compound....any dev reading this ?

Re: Critical EXT2 error !!!

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 23:08:11 GMT

...ok...how about the very basic Channel Copy.maxtool.....even that won't compile...that's the basic building block for a lot of others....

IsNullFix is used in the following:

MapChannelExists

MapChannelCombine

MapChannelLerp

PerVertexDataOrZeros

and MapChannelExists is used in the following:

CopyMapChannel

GetMapChannelAndValidate

GetMapChannelOrCreate

MapChannelCopyVertexBuffer

MapChannelTransform

MeshClearCustomMapChannels

MeshCopyCustomMapChannelVertexBuffers

so it just snowballs.......PLEASE FIX THIS

Re: Critical EXT2 error !!!

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 23:36:40 GMT

even something this simple won't compile...

Re: Critical EXT2 error !!!

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 23:49:53 GMT

right, I'll fix it myself !!!

why can't it be this simple ?

Re: Critical EXT2 error !!!

spacefrog_ — Sun, 14 Feb 2016 07:30:59 GMT

Just stumbling in here by accident...

but did you report the bug you found ?

Talking here to yourself will certainly not cause that to happen

So please file a bug report here

http://download.autodesk.com/us/support/report_a_bug.html?SelProduct=3dsMax

Re: Critical EXT2 error !!!

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Feb 2016 09:17:35 GMT

no offence but...I found the bug, reported it IN DETAILS....see screenprints...found the fix....showed the fix....now I gotta waste more time filling forms ?????????? Seems like I'm the only one doing anything on this issue...

Got better thing to do than filling out forms....

What are support staff doing ?

Re: Critical EXT2 error !!!

jon.bell — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 21:22:04 GMT

Sir,

This is Jon A. Bell, from Autodesk Technical Support.

User posts on the Area Forums that specifically ask technical support or developer questions typically get "auto-escalated" to our internal support queue. For some reason, your posts on January 4th didn't trigger this, so I'll investigate why this happened.

In the meantime, I've forwarded this link to one of our MCG developers, and I'll see what he says.

However, "Spacefrog" is right -- the best place for posting specific bug reports or feature requests is the Autodesk Bug Reporting Page.

A more direct way to address 3ds Max issues is to go to the 3ds Max Feedback Forums. These forums feature internal developers, QA staff and other Max users, and it's an excellent place to get (and give) information on using Max.

If you post your important technical support questions and screen captures here on the Area Forums, then please do the same on the Max Feedback Forums if you need direct feedback on a complex new feature such as MCG.

I hope this information helps.

Best regards,

Jon A. Bell

Autodesk Technical Support

Re: Critical EXT2 error !!!

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 23:29:12 GMT

OMG....this IS the MCG forum...how much more DIRECT can you get when you go to THE MCG forum to ask an MCG question ?

So you're saying the most direct way to ask an MCG question, reporting an MCG bug, is to go somewhere else that is NOT an MCG specific forum...Wow..definitely some funky logic here...

I'll say thanks for all your 'instructions' from everyone on telling me what to do....but I ain't no sheep dutifully following instructions.

Regards.

Vu.

Re: Critical EXT2 error !!!

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 16:24:31 GMT

Any News? Still got the following:

Validation failed for B:\Scripte\3ds_max_2016\mcg\tools\Channel Invert Color.maxtool : Compiler error occurred while building expression for node 6:IsNullFix->18:IsNull. Cannot build a concrete type, there are generic parameters in the type arguments: U.

Re: Critical EXT2 error !!!

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 21:04:32 GMT

just do the fix I provided, hey Autodesk used it !!!

Re: Critical EXT2 error !!!

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 21:04:33 GMT

just do the fix I provided, hey Autodesk used it !!!