3dsm Plugin Issues

[Wamduskasapa]

Instead of a lake , creek or pond - how about something like a Pod Age??

Instead of the walls being opaque they would be translucent and transparent. There could be walkways and balconies so people would be able to observe gameplay

OR

They would be able to look through the walls to see an Atlantian type visage (fallen pillars and the walls of a city) with fish swimming about like in Dereno...

[Karkadann]

Dude you really should learn Blender or Max and make some of these ideas of yours into ages, they sound very imaginative.
Their are a ton of tutorials for both, and the satisfaction of creating ages far out weighs any other part (at least for me)
Its worth a try, all you'll be loosing is time. Id love to see "The First Age Of Wamduskasapa" You've got the talent and the imagination.

Imagine your own age with your own personal twist build by you, there are plenty of people here willing to help,

[Wamduskasapa]

I have 3DS Max and have tried designing an age with it for almost a year. This Olde Dog evidently has problems learning new tricks, I have failed dismally.

The only choice I have is to continue giving ideas to others...

[Karkadann]

tell us the problems your having maybe we can help, I have failed dismally on several occasions. What I have published is a small part of what I have done in Max

Im no smarter then any one else I just stay with problems longer

[Wamduskasapa]

OK The main problem is that I keep getting an Error code 126 The plugins (PlasmaMax.gup and MaxPlasmaLights.dlo) refuse to initialize.

They are BOTH installed in directory Autodesk/3dsMax8/plugins/

I have installed
3DS Max 8
3dsMax8_SP3.msp
Autodesk DWF Viewer
backburner
MOULaPlugins871

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I have updated DirectX and Java

I have copied over all dll's from URU to the 3dsMax8 folder

I have also created 2 directories
C:/AgeDevelopment/Uru_Mod_Data/output/dat/
and
C:/AgeDevelopment/Uru_Mod_Data/output/Testage/

In the dat folder I have created 2 files, Testage.age and Testage.fni

Testage.age contains

StartDateTime=0000000000
DayLength=24.000000
MaxCapacity=10
LingerTime=180
SequencePrefix=10550
ReleaseVersion=0
Page=Mainroom,1
Page=caves,2
Page=interior,3

Testage.fni contains

Graphics.Renderer.SetYon 100000
Graphics.Renderer.Fog.SetDefLinear 0 0 0
Graphics.Renderer.Fog.SetDefColor 0 0 0
Graphics.Renderer.SetClearColor 0 0 0

PlasmaMAX2.ini was created (Directory - 3dsMax8/plugcfg) and contains the text

[Menu]
Version=10
[SceneViewer]
Directory=C:\AgeDevelopment\Uru_Mod_Data\output
[Export]
X=0
Y=30
Dir=

Other than the MOULaPlugins871 not initializing 3DS Max runs fine...

[Karkadann]

a coding issue? Dude this site has a lot of coders, someone's gotta know whats going on, you should have seid something
and in the mean time I found an interesting info on Error code 126

http://www.wiki-errors.com/err.php?wiki=126

also I noticed you have 3 pages in your age file
My first try was strictly the basics one page and that was it I didn't even have a fni file
I bit off more then I can chew once with Relativity so I started with the basics

[Wamduskasapa]

a coding issue? Dude this site has a lot of coders, someone's gotta know whats going on, you should have seid something
and in the mean time I found an interesting info on Error code 126

http://www.wiki-errors.com/err.php?wiki=126

I have already purchased and run the suggested program (Error Fix)
I Still am getting the 126 error stating that the MOULa Plugins will not initialize

also I noticed you have 3 pages in your age file
My first try was strictly the basics one page and that was it I didn't even have a fni file
I bit off more then I can chew once with Relativity so I started with the basics

Even though the age that I am attempting to create only has one room that you roam around in, there are 2 additional rooms that have visible animations.
Imagine an age like Payiferen - On the first floor you look out and see an animation. Then on the second floor if you look out you see a different animation. Using 3 rooms decreases lag, since the animations will only be active while actually being observed...

[Karkadann]

Not being a coder Im not sure if this makes any difference but the tutorial I used
here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjUomH6IMJ0&fmt=22

has a few different numbers on the "PlasmaMAX2.ini"

[Menu]
Version=10
[SceneViewer]
Directory=PathToYourOutputDirectory
[Export]
X=411
Y=322
Dir=

[Wamduskasapa]

the x - y cords should only affect the exported files and shouldn't affect program initiation

[Karkadann]

unless someone else wants to chime in all I can suggest is reinstalling the plugins
http://www.agecreationtutorials.co.nr/