Sorry for the double mails, our forum had a problem sending out all announcements and I had to restart the process.

Mea Culpa...

Cheers,
Mike

Hello there,

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Cheers,
Dagmar and Mike

Hm, it might be that the cookie that keeps you logged in got scrambled. Can you try to log out and then in again?

If that doesn't work just PM me and I'll send it to you via e-mail.

Cheers,
Mike

I'm currently re-working the UV handling (which was borked in a few places). Once that is done and a two minor issues have been looked at we should be gold.

Cheers,
Mike

Sorry Mike, I haven't checked in here for a while so I only just noticed your post. Looking forward to v1.6.

I login, I can see that I am from the panel on the left of the page...yet each time I attempt to click on exrTrader I get this message...

"This location is for Registered Users Only.
Please login or Register. "

But I'm already logged in...?

Hi Chris,

good to see that you got it working.

Basically it should just be o.k. if you use one Get Vector Comment node and pipe that into the Colour Override.

If that doesn't work as expected please feel free to send me a sample scene: michael.wolf@db-w.com

It's good to see that you like the ride

Cheers,
Mike

After a lot of experimentation I was able to link them together using mixers with Filter nodes just incase anyone else had the same issue. Loving shadermeister, its such a cool plugin.

Hey Guys,
I am currently having trouble figuring out how to setup the nodes for this. Basically what I am trying to do is create a matte pass using the item comments to define the colors. However, I cannot figure out what setup I need to plug in multiple Get Colour Comments together so that they all get their respective colors. Anyone have any thoughts?

-chris

You don't miss out a thing if you're on OSX only. The only difference is the support for ECW/JPEG2000 (because the library for that is broken on OSX and doesn't work properly).
Apparently there's patches/fixes for it and I will re-investigate in the near future. Don't hold your breath for it though.
There's also an upgrade path for the regular price difference if anything changes in the future (i.e. ECW/JPEG2000 support making it on OSX).

Cheers,
Mike