Could be python, but our scenes are very complex and in most cases large, I think we are lucky we have not had more problems with scene files. On Zambezia we dealt with a lot more scenes that would just never open again, and we had to go through the merge/drag and drop/do wierd karma dances/etc... sort of thing to get them going again. 2011 SAP SP1 seems to be better in that regard, as we were on 2011 SP1 then.
S. _____________________________ Sandy Sutherland Technical Supervisor [email protected] _____________________________ ________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Steven Caron [[email protected]] Sent: 18 May 2012 09:09 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Merging Scene Fixes qtSoftimage plugin error why? oh, ok. :) well if python is getting wonky/messed up, then certainly the pyqt plugin can be affected On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:51 PM, Sandy Sutherland <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: LOL - no you are missing the point, I do not think it is the plugin at all, I think that some scenes just get flakey, and this might affect the plugin. Qt here just rocks!! S. _____________________________ Sandy Sutherland Technical Supervisor [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> _____________________________ ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] on behalf of Steven Caron [[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: 18 May 2012 08:38 To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: Merging Scene Fixes qtSoftimage plugin error why? 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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]> _____________________________ ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] on behalf of Steven Caron [[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: 18 May 2012 08:02 To: [email protected]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]> _____________________________ ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] on behalf of Eric Turman [[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: 17 May 2012 22:07 To: [email protected]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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<mailto:[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=-
