>From the Softimage 2014 SP2 Readme: SOFT-9089 Very slow access to the ICE attribute arrays
*Note: You may need to recompile your plugins, if they were compiled using Softimage versions prior to 2014 SP2. On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 4:33 AM, Mathias N <[email protected]> wrote: > I've spent the night figuring out how to set per-component ICE attributes > from a custom operator, which most of the threads on the subject had me > beginning to believe was impossible. > > I was working with SI2013 and compiling against the SDK that ships with > 2014sp2, and as soon as I declared a CICEAttributeDataArray the plugin > would refuse to load with the error "A procedure couldn't be found in the > library". > > Having never worked with CICEAttributeDataArray before I assumed support > for it was added with SI2014, which would have explained the lack of > working examples. Lo-and-behold it loaded fine in 2014sp2. > > After much frustration I did eventually manage to coax the C++ api into > dumping arrays into per-point attributes, but was somewhat bummed that it > would only work with 2014. However, hours of digging through the SDK > documentation had made it abundantly clear that CICEAttributeDataArray was > nothing new and should work fine in earlier versions. > > I swapped out the 2014sp2 SDK and compiled against the 2013sp1 SDK > instead, which allowed the plugin to be loaded in 2013 without any errors. > > Aren't SDKs supposed to be backwards compatible? > Are there any extra steps necessary to make it play nice with earlier > versions, or do I have to stick with the old SDKs? >
