Let’s start with the obvious:
- Make sure you’re running 64 bit version of Alienbrain (can’t use 32 bit alienbrain with Softimage 2015) - Update internet explorer to latest version as newer versions handle problems better. - Reduce ActiveX control restrictions on your local computer. This can open you up to other things if you do sketchy stuff, but otherwise should be harmless. If you’re worried, use the setting that asks you to be prompted before a control is run. - Run as administrator (just until you get things working) All that said, please realize that Alienbrain hasn’t undergone significant development in many years. We’re using Alienbrain and discontinued use of the integration years ago. In our experience, even when the integration was working it created more problems than it solved because of poor design sending users and files into weird states resulting in loss of work. I scripted the necessary hooks for us to work efficiently and run them as events when files are loaded and saved. Matt From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Griswold Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 8:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Allow XSI to run unsigned ActiveX controls? I'm trying to get Alienbrain's integration running under 2015. I think the problem is, it wants to run unsigned ActiveX controls locally. When I load AB html pages directly into IE, I get a warning about ActiveX. I've tried setting my intranet security zone to allow unsigned ActiveX controls, but that didn't seem to do it. I also tried changing the webcontrol registry setting per this article: http://xsisupport.com/2011/08/25/netview-and-internet-explorer-9/ But that caused more problems than it fixed - I suddenly was hit with a lot of .js errors the moment XSI launched. (jatkinson mentions the same thing in response to the XSISupport article) The crash seems to happen with Alienbrain's ActiveX control tries to access the AB server on my local network. As soon as it gets to that point it crashes. It'd be nice to get the integration running again rather than running it as a separate application. -Paul
