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One of the devs had mentioned that they were using the autodesk student site as their source for 3ds Max. Just a reminder that with 2013 coming out next month, 2010 will likely be removed from the site. Might be good to have that backed up somewhere so in the future you have a place to get it.

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There have been a couple of bug reports since the last build. I just wanted you all to know that I have seen them, and they're on my TODO list. I want to spend some time working on other bits of Plasma than the plugin for a while - switching around helps keep it from getting tedious and frustrating ...

Good info to have.

What I'm attempting to lightmap is my terrain. Since there doesn't appear to be a way to do what I want at the moment I've decided to compromise. Only using the lightmap for the ground and the walls will have standard vertex shading. Screenshot of result. Comes out pretty well ...

Creating my own lightmaps with proper uv's is easy....I've been using 3ds for about 10 years. I just don't see a way to blend it in properly using the composite material.

I played with the built in generator. But the output wasn't very good IMO. For one there were black edges along all the uv seems ...

Plasma lightmaps are a special type of layer that's blended using special flags after all other layers. Unfortunately I don't know if there's a way to specify your own lightmap image through Max, but it looks like Cyan hand-painted some of their lightmaps, so it should be possible.

Have you tried ...

Sorry should have been more specific. Forgot to mention I'm using a composite. You can use multiple on the first/base layer. If you attempt to use it on the second layer it errors. However Plasma's built in light map generator can correctly be applied to a plasma composite material. There has to be ...

I just followed Andy's tutorial on generating lightmaps. Plasma's built in generator seemed to work okay, but I was thinking I could create a better lightmap on own. Is there a way use your own lightmap? I thought about just specifying it in the material, but couldn't find a way to blend it in ...

Think I may have found a bug. Anything I put the animation component on causes the export feature to hang. max 2010.

Been going through the available tutorials on using the plugin. Just got to the ones on adding sound. I can't seem to be able to select a sound file. When I press the button that says none under Sound Name nothing happens. I assume a dialog box is supposed to come up. Is there something else I need ...