Sounds like you may have multiple copies installed in different locations and may not be aware of it.
Matt From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of ran sariel Sent: Monday, June 03, 2013 4:53 PM To: softimage Subject: Re: unloading a plugin, recompiling and reloading it in softimage. the plugin registers a command and a couple of custom operators, that are created only when necessary. (not in the case I'm testing at the moment) even when starting a new scene (so there's no active nodes related to the plugin), unloading the plugin recompiling and reloading, it is still reverting to the old plugin code. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Stephan Woermann <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On a custom render property, it doesn´t work, as example. Maybe because some of the render parameters are still active in some parts of the Softimage internal structure. With custom shaders, sometimes you can´t recompile the dll. You get an write error. The same background as above. Custom ICE-Nodes are also a little bit tricky. When you unload the plugin, an existing Node will become a red status, Recompile and reload the plugin, will make the Node sometimes wired, some portsnames are double. Or if you delete a Node without the plugin is loaded, you get a crash. I would prefer the way to test if the plugin can be reloaded and refreshed how it should and when not, restart Softimage. I think it depend on what type of plugin you code and how deep the plugin is currently used in the Softimage Scene. Sometimes you can recompile and refresh and sometimes you can´t... Stephan 2013/6/3 Matt Lind <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> If you're working on a PPG Layout, you'll need to 'refresh' the PPG to see changes. That is, each PPG has a name with a triangle to its left, which if clicked, collapses the PPG. Right-click the darker grey area to the right of the collapsible name and choose "refresh". This will force the PPG Layout logic code to evaluate from scratch. Matt From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Stephan Woermann Sent: Monday, June 03, 2013 1:43 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: unloading a plugin, recompiling and reloading it in softimage. Another problem can be, when some code is still "active" in Softimage. Like an open shader PPG of an unloaded Plugin or something else. Stephan 2013/6/3 Stephan Woermann <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Haven´t check the Update All over the Plugin Manager, so the next can be wrong. For changes in the PPG with new parameters, you must restart Softimage. For changes in the logic or others, unload/reload should work. Stephan 2013/6/3 ran sariel <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> hope it was that simple, this just doesn't work on my setup. the plugin is definitely unloaded before the recompile, and I wonder where on earth does soft cache it. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Vincent Ullmann <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi, Not for Linux, and kind a just repeating what you already wrote... for me unloading, recompiling, reloading worked well on Windows7 64bit and Softimage2012SAP for some CustomOperator-Plugins (C++). What i did exactly was: Inside the PluginManager right-click on the Plugin select "Unload" Go to Sublime (or Visual Studio) recompile Back To XSI: PluginManager -> Update All Am 03.06.2013 18:36, schrieb ran sariel: Hi All I'm compiling a plugin for soft on linux, every time I make a change it seems that soft will not pick up the changes until I restart it. which is tedious and time consuming. I tried unloading the plugin (with remove option), compiling reloading, unloading the plugin, remove the old one from disk!!, compile / reload. no luck. I'm probably missing something basic about the way soft handles resources, but couldn't find any clue in the docs. does anyone have a better workaround than relaunch soft? Cheers Ran
