Prism
Prism is the render pass manager for 3ds Max, which was developed by me in Altspace. It significantly simplifies the process of creating and managing render passes. With the intuitive user interface you can quickly create an unlimited number of passes in a single output file. Prism is easy to install and configure, it’s based on native Max script and works with 3ds Max 2012 and above. It supports network rendering using Autodesk Backburner and Thinkbox Deadline, and does not require separate installation on a render farm’s computers. Prism supports all popular rendering systems, including V-Ray 3.0 and Corona renderer. Prism provides a large variety of different settings in each pass, making possibilities limitless, also the handy system of file naming templates lets you easily find your rendered output.
Prism (previously called LPM 2.0) is a fork of lukas pass manager, it was renamed to avoid confusion. Thanks to all who participated in "lpm_pro_v1.096_max2014_beta1" developing (Lukas Lepicovsky, Jakub Jeziorski, Mike Samoilov, John Martini). It was good start for me in august 2014.
Comments
An update available
Please check the new version on the website or by this link https://www.grovergol.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Prism_1.507_Install...
An update available
Please check the new version on the website or by this link https://www.grovergol.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Prism_1.507_Install...
Hey man. I know about the
Hey man. I know about the problem. Will look into it as soon as I have time. As a temporal solution you could rename the data storage dummies in the ZZ-LPM layer, just keep the LPM_ prefix
Renaming Passes
After jumping from Max 2020 to 2026, I can't rename any Pass. I can hit F2 (or Rename in context menu), I can type a new name, but Enter key does not respond, so I can't confirm it. Esc button does respond, cancels the renaming process. Sounds like a minor issue, but having to render bigger number of previews and then now manually edit the outputs is cumbersome. Anyone has this issue?
black pass with deadline
Hi Grover
am using prism to render my staff, recently i started to use it with deadline but unfortunately i get my pass black (( specifically got it empty ))
and this happened only am using prism in the regular submission its not happening
and sure I set the path to the deadline functions file in the option
So any advice or suggestions to solve this problem
Tutorials ?
Anyone have these tut files for download ?
http://www.lukashi.com/files/LPM_Videos/LPM.html
Camtasia won't play in any of my browsers and as far as I can tell this is the only documentation / tutorials for this.
tia
Red Shift render elements are causing errors
Nothing new, Corona had the same problems, would it be possible to add support for third party render elements like for Corona and Redshift.
If Render elements exist for Redshift (Their specific ones ) Prims is throwing an error.
Even turning them off doesn't work.
Red shift has an open beta and nice devs
Mike
Mike Kennedy
earth_mike(AT)hotmail.com
Thats a cool feature, it's not what happening for me though,
What's happening to me is different, it happens when I open and close the interface window. The passes are off and then on in a random fashion, auto animate was off when I had this happen to me. it's not a killer, more of a extra clicks thing.
You open the interface one time, some passes are on some are off, open it again and there are not the same passes turned off or on.
If it was animated then the passes turned on and off would be off and on consistently at the same frame, in this case they are not. Only happens with like 15 or more passes.
It's some thing that happened with 1.0 and 1.14 of LPM from the other branch. Might be something to do with my personal Max set up.
Mike Kennedy
earth_mike(AT)hotmail.com
Bug report
Hi Mike. Check for animated parameters. Example:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27656664/CloudShot/lpm_animated_para...
Bug reporrt
The passes are randomly turning off and on by themselves all the time on heavy scenes.
Guessing when my PC is working hard this causes issues?
Mike Kennedy
earth_mike(AT)hotmail.com