Autodesk Composite 2011 and 2012 Copy & Paste Bug

I have seen a strange behaviour of Autodesk Composite 2011 / 2012 while teaching my customers. On about 80% of their workstations a nasty bug happened and crashed Composite immediately. As soon as  a CTRL+C CTRL+V operation is performed Composite crashes. And you'll use Copy&Paste a lot...

The solution is simple but not really logical to me. Update the graphic card driver!

The problem occurs using both vendors ATI and NVIDIA. So in case you this bug, try updating your drivers. I hope this helps out someone ;)

3DS Max 2011 and Composite: 32bit Framebuffer Tip

When compositing in a physical correct way using 3DS Max 2011 you have to make sure that your framebuffer type is set to 32bit. If not, some serious headache can occur while trying to get the results in compositing you want.



In 3DS Max 2011 Design the framebuffer is already set to 32bit, so you'll have no problems there.

I hope this helps you out (I needed quite a time of trial and error to find this out).

"Eurohaus" Making of

A little making of the "Eurohaus" Project I did for a presentation at the Autodesk BIM conference in Lucerne, Switzerland.



The model was created in Revit and imported into 3DS Max 2011 where I added some Materials, Trees and other props to the scene. I then rendered simple elements with V-Ray and composited it all together in Autodesk Composite.

I finished the project in about 4 hours since there was very little preparation time.