Hi Morton
Try applying my suggested change and see.
The SItoA 2.8 tbb.dll isn't the same as the OpenVDB supplied version, so if
that worked before, then it should still work with the Mootz version.
I don't remember if I ever tried installing OpenVDB with SItoA 2.8
SItoA 2.8
- ships with tbb.dll
- has "Arnold Shaders" plugin, not "ArnoldStaShaders", but using
"Application.Plugins("Arnold
Shaders").OriginPath " is a bad idea. For example, if OpenVDB is a
workgroup plugin.
http://xsisupport.com/2014/04/01/loading-order-of-workgroup-plugins-and-addons/
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Morten Bartholdy <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Thanks for chiming in Stephen. Now it get's slightly complicated - I am
> on SiToA 2.8.0 so I don't know where it fits in here.
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> I am actually using a tbb.dll that Erik Mootz provided with emFluid5 for
> it to work alongside SiToA. Would tbb.dll and tbb42.dll conflict?
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> I can of course just try your method and see what happens.
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> Morten
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> Den 31. oktober 2014 kl. 14:25 skrev Stephen Blair <
> [email protected]>:
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> Hi
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> That will work if he's using an old version of SItoA (however, I don't
> remember which came first: we removed tbb.dll, or we switched to
> ArnoldStaShaders, or we did both the same release)
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> But in summary:
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> That third-party plugin is a bit old now and so it is doing a few things
> wrong, if you have a recent version of SItoA:
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> - There is no SItoA plugin called "Arnold Shaders"
> - SItoA doesn't ship tbb42.dll
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> In Application\Plugins\bin\nt- x86-64\VDB_shaderDefs_ai.pys, add this
> line:
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> import sipyutils
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> and then replace this line
> dllPath_release = Application.Plugins("Arnold Shaders"). OriginPath
> + "bin\\nt-x86-64\\tbb42.dll";
> with
> dllPath_release = __sipath__ + "//tbb42.dll";
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> Stephen
> Solid Angle Support
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> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Francois Lord < [email protected] >
> wrote:
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> in the VDB_shaderDefs_ai.pys, replace this line
> dllPath_release = Application.Plugins("Arnold Shaders").OriginPath +
> "bin\\nt-x86-64\\tbb42.dll";
> by
> dllPath_release = Application.Plugins("ArnoldStaShaders").OriginPath +
> "bin\\nt-x86-64\\tbb42.dll";
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> On 31-Oct-14 08:48, Morten Bartholdy wrote:
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> I just installed Oleg Bliznuks exciting OpenVDB stuff but ran in to a snag
> - I get this error when doing a renderregion on the cloud demo scene:
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> ' WARNING : [arnold] node "VDBVolumeShaderSimple_ai" is not installed
> ' ERROR : [sitoa]: Unable to load VDBVolumeShaderSimple_ai from the Arnold
> plugins (first occurrence:
> Sources.Materials.DefaultLib.Scene_Material.VDBVolumeShaderSimple_ai)
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> Upon Inspecting the Plugin Manager I can see that VDB_shaderDefs_ai.pys
> has a red triangle and checking its properties it says 262$This script
> plug-in contains erors and could not be loaded: <path: "path to workgroup
> installation"
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> I do have vcredist_x64 installed. Does anyone here know - could this be
> caused by the annoying tbb.dll conflict with Arnold?
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> I am exploring the various ways to render emFluids and would really like
> to try Olegs shader out.
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> Cheers
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> Morten
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