ok, weird stuff for sure. but how can you be sure all of that is because of the qt plugin? i mean batch rendering, really?
i am afraid if you think its the qt plugin to blame, i think you might want to stop using it for a bit and see if normality returns. s On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Sandy Sutherland < [email protected]> wrote: > Steven I saw you mentioned it does not persist any data - BUT we have > had some wierd stuff go down here, including scenes that completely lose > render options. You could render a region, but try and render the scene > either preview or proper and you get script errors all over the place. > Also scenes that crash on the farm AND the batch crash on local machines > first time, then if you just leave them they suddenly work fine. > > There are greater forces at work here [tongue in cheek] > > > S. > > _____________________________ > Sandy Sutherland > Technical Supervisor > [email protected] > _____________________________ > > > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* [email protected] [ > [email protected]] on behalf of Steven Caron [ > [email protected]] > *Sent:* 18 May 2012 08:02 > > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: Merging Scene Fixes qtSoftimage plugin error why? > > as i said, the plugin does not depend on any data persisted in a > scene. if the example plugins run without issue then its not the plugin's > fault but the gui/app they are trying to run. > > s > > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Sandy Sutherland < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Maybe there is something in the scene data that Qt uses/needs? And >> that data is fubar in that scene at scene level. >> >> S. >> >> _____________________________ >> Sandy Sutherland >> Technical Supervisor >> [email protected] >> _____________________________ >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* [email protected] [ >> [email protected]] on behalf of Eric Turman [ >> [email protected]] >> *Sent:* 17 May 2012 22:07 >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* Re: Merging Scene Fixes qtSoftimage plugin error why? >> >> Did this scenes happen to originate in an older version of Softimage >> where QuickTime wasn't supported by 64 bit? >> >> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Jared Glass < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Steven and Jo >>> A few days back I had to open an animators scene to do some tests and >>> for some reason the qtSoftimage plugin just wouldn't work at all. Xsi would >>> load the scene and it would automatically report that COM Error: Out of >>> present range. (0x-7ffdfff6) error. Luckily this doesn't happen too often >>> anymore, but with this specific scene no matter how many times I closed and >>> reopened it, not once did the plugin work. BUT...when I merged it into a >>> new scene all of a sudden the plugin started working again, without any >>> issues. This new merged scene I have opened and closed several times just >>> to make sure this isn't random and so far the plugin has been absolutely >>> fine. >>> >>> My question to you is do you have any idea as to why this could happen? >>> And to the rest of the list; does anyone know what is stored in an xsi >>> scene that gets lost when the scene is merged that could cause >>> conflicts/errors? >>> >>> Thanks for all the help so far :) >>> -- >>> Kind Regards, >>> Jared Glass <[email protected]> | Technical Lead >>> Triggerfish Animation Studios <http://www.triggerfish.co.za> >>> Zambezia Movie <http://www.zambeziamovie.com/> | Khumba >>> Movie<http://www.triggerfish.co.za/khumba/> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> >> >> -=T=- >> > >
