Re: A pain in the Arnold...

[Gregor Punchatz]

Hmmm... have you tried rebuilding the shaders???

On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 2:14 PM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES II] <
j.ponthi...@nasa.gov> wrote:

> Howdy yall,
>
>
>
> I thought I would post here before I escalate this but… Arnold on Maya
> 2018 is producing an error in render…
>
>
>
> I’ve got an ESRI City Engine scene imported into Maya 2018, It was working
> fine under Maya 2017 and rendering fine in Mental Ray. But mental Ray is
> gone now.
>
>
>
> 1.   It renders in the Maya Software render fine.
>
> 2.   In Arnold it produces what looks like triangulation
> (Tessellation) errors rendering some triangles darker than others.
>
> 3.   It only produces the problem on materials with texture maps.
>
> 4.   Disconnecting the textures from the diffuse color removes the
> problem. But removes the texture also. But this seems to indicate its not a
> lighting, normals, or shading error.
>
> 5.   I’ve turned literally everything in Arnold settings off or
> neutral and no change.
>
> 6.   Its not shadows, nor anti-aliasing, nor duplicate polygons, nor
> a bad mesh.
>
> 7.   Forcing a triangulate on the mesh can make different triangles
> darker but the problem does not go away.
>
> 8.   All reflections, shadows, motion blur, etc have been turned off
> in Maya and Arnold for Render Settings and Object. No change.
>
>
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Joey
>
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A pain in the Arnold...

[Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES II]]

Howdy yall,

I thought I would post here before I escalate this but... Arnold on Maya 2018 
is producing an error in render...

I've got an ESRI City Engine scene imported into Maya 2018, It was working fine 
under Maya 2017 and rendering fine in Mental Ray. But mental Ray is gone now.


1.   It renders in the Maya Software render fine.

2.   In Arnold it produces what looks like triangulation (Tessellation) 
errors rendering some triangles darker than others.

3.   It only produces the problem on materials with texture maps.

4.   Disconnecting the textures from the diffuse color removes the problem. 
But removes the texture also. But this seems to indicate its not a lighting, 
normals, or shading error.

5.   I've turned literally everything in Arnold settings off or neutral and 
no change.

6.   Its not shadows, nor anti-aliasing, nor duplicate polygons, nor a bad 
mesh.

7.   Forcing a triangulate on the mesh can make different triangles darker 
but the problem does not go away.

8.   All reflections, shadows, motion blur, etc have been turned off in 
Maya and Arnold for Render Settings and Object. No change.

Any thoughts?

Thanks
Joey
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Re: VDB stuff

[WilliamP]

Thanks for getting back to me!

The part about connecting the workgroup is the part that works fine. I get all 
the nodes in the list on the side of the ICE window, but there must be 
something else I need to have installed first to make it all go.

At the beginning of his tutorial he calls the VDB_Voxelize_Geometry node, which 
is in my listing, but when I get it out it has the Geometry in but no VDB_Grid 
out. If I unpack VDB_Voxelize_Geometry it only has one node inside that doesn’t 
connect to anything. I am presuming it is calling on other sub-nodes that it 
expects to  be on my computer.

If I try and load the test scene it comes back with a long list of VDB missing 
errors, for example ‘Could not find node VDB_MeshToGrid’

VDB_MeshToGrid is not one that comes with Mr.Cores (Oleg Biliznuk’s) Compounds, 
but it does call on it, expecting it to be there, I presume.

What am I missing? There is a lot of mentioning of StoA in connection to his 
compounds, but is that something I need if I am using Redshift, not Arnold? Do 
I need to be a licensed Arnold user?

Thanks in advance for your help on this!

William


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Subject: Re: VDB stuff

A bit more info would help but,



first off download the workgroup which has the plugin already in it, point your 
soft to it with the plugin manager, most likely restart soft then see if the 
ice nodes are in the preset manager







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Subject: VDB stuff 

Hi All 
Please excuse my parachuting in like this but I am not sure where to get the 
info I’m looking for and hope someone here can direct me.
Is there an archive somewhere that I can look previous topics up on, in case 
what I’m looking for has already been hashed over already?
I am trying to get Redshift to render VDB files in Softimage 2015, like can be 
seen here 
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cgicoffee.com_blog_2016_06_softimage-2Dice-2Dvdb-2Dredshift&d=DwIF-g&c=76Q6Tcqc-t2x0ciWn7KFdCiqt6IQ7a_IF9uzNzd_2pA&r=GmX_32eCLYPFLJ529RohsPjjNVwo9P0jVMsrMw7PFsA&m=LbUFQybrjBt9no1Zwaku2ik4aH_o0Q-eDLvlM2uR-gM&s=i0AeAbWL6khwcSkCE9h2uSyHW3e97VtVFvgOKvZsEts&e=,
 and while I’ve chased down as many links as I can online, I suspect I’m going 
about installing the addons improperly, or missing a step, or something.
Any assistance, or direction to a detailed set of installation instructions 
would be appreciated, thanks!
William
 
 



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Re: SitoA/Arnold 5.1 and Softimage....?

[Jens Lindgren]

@Rob
We are aware of the issue with the .dll warning and I thought that Arnold
5.1.1.0 would fix it but apparently not. It's a harmful warning anyway
because we haven't implemented optix denoiser in SItoA (yet?).

/Jens


On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 11:18 AM, Rob Wuijster  wrote:

> Hi Jens,
>
> Thanks for the link to the alpha build, much appreciated! :-)
> Testing it atm, and so far the only issue is with the denoiser, which is
> installed with the addon...:
>
> " WARNING : [arnold] unable to load dynamic library
> \\rwserver\xsiwg\SitoA500\Addons\SItoA\Application\
> Plugins\bin\nt-x86-64\optix_denoiser.dll: The specified module could not
> be found."
>
>
> And it would be great if you post links to any new builds on the list, as
> I find GitHub utterly confusing. ;-)
>
> cheers!
>
> Rob
>
>
> \/-\/\/
>
> On 31-5-2018 10:15, Jens Lindgren wrote:
>
> Here's a build: 
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.dropbox.com_s_pecjl5yr40ma3wq_SItoA-2D5&d=DwIFaQ&c=76Q6Tcqc-t2x0ciWn7KFdCiqt6IQ7a_IF9uzNzd_2pA&r=GmX_32eCLYPFLJ529RohsPjjNVwo9P0jVMsrMw7PFsA&m=bgoO2QRYqD1zYM4KtjUbpXkvFpEh2n7M9xAWZDIh4U0&s=SMvHi2aw-6x1Tu5R9HvNBxR4vVAZi_xM2TtL1s3YNv0&e=.
> 0.0-alpha-windows-2015.zip?dl=0
> 
> It's of the develop branch in the SItoA Github repository as it looks
> today: 
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_Autodesk_sitoa_tree_develop&d=DwIFaQ&c=76Q6Tcqc-t2x0ciWn7KFdCiqt6IQ7a_IF9uzNzd_2pA&r=GmX_32eCLYPFLJ529RohsPjjNVwo9P0jVMsrMw7PFsA&m=bgoO2QRYqD1zYM4KtjUbpXkvFpEh2n7M9xAWZDIh4U0&s=_5y0uq9ZaP6kzHD5jNQw0ZOvXz5CrxG3eLkGVaVr8OI&e=
> 
> It's named it SItoA 5.0.0-alpha. It doesn't have all the new features.
> Please read the closed PRs of what's new: 
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_&d=DwIFaQ&c=76Q6Tcqc-t2x0ciWn7KFdCiqt6IQ7a_IF9uzNzd_2pA&r=GmX_32eCLYPFLJ529RohsPjjNVwo9P0jVMsrMw7PFsA&m=bgoO2QRYqD1zYM4KtjUbpXkvFpEh2n7M9xAWZDIh4U0&s=MfTT3wBQHzpnrXOGJy1s0frVxcmocBHQl9kqsP6wCkE&e=
> Autodesk/sitoa/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed
> 
> It's compiled against Softimage 2015 SP2 and Arnold 5.1.1.0 which must
> have been released today or something because they haven't announced it ye

Re: VDB stuff

[Andi Farhall]

A bit more info would help but,


first off download the workgroup which has the plugin already in it, point your 
soft to it with the plugin manager, most likely restart soft then see if the 
ice nodes are in the preset manager



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Subject: VDB stuff

Hi All

Please excuse my parachuting in like this but I am not sure where to get the 
info I’m looking for and hope someone here can direct me.

Is there an archive somewhere that I can look previous topics up on, in case 
what I’m looking for has already been hashed over already?

I am trying to get Redshift to render VDB files in Softimage 2015, like can be 
seen here 
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cgicoffee.com_blog_2016_06_softimage-2Dice-2Dvdb-2Dredshift&d=DwIFEA&c=76Q6Tcqc-t2x0ciWn7KFdCiqt6IQ7a_IF9uzNzd_2pA&r=GmX_32eCLYPFLJ529RohsPjjNVwo9P0jVMsrMw7PFsA&m=XWNc7LLPHAGMtjqFjCIpr5L1Lz7sCtGxtbkL3nnMARE&s=Mj-mkxx9h-PSBhtZd_ygoAsxov5JhH5jPIZlwtWc9Sc&e=,
 and while I’ve chased down as many links as I can online, I suspect I’m going 
about installing the addons improperly, or missing a step, or something.

Any assistance, or direction to a detailed set of installation instructions 
would be appreciated, thanks!

William

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Re: SitoA/Arnold 5.1 and Softimage....?

[Jens Lindgren]

Here's a build:
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.dropbox.com_s_pecjl5yr40ma3wq_SItoA-2D5.0.0-2Dalpha-2Dwindows-2D2015.zip-3Fdl-3D0&d=DwIFaQ&c=76Q6Tcqc-t2x0ciWn7KFdCiqt6IQ7a_IF9uzNzd_2pA&r=GmX_32eCLYPFLJ529RohsPjjNVwo9P0jVMsrMw7PFsA&m=GigPRkFXBujN6tWE5HJY9Sr9pwqhbQOldlMKeS1A_cE&s=CDk07bBV4_msJfo6r-SD-XjPid7TJcY4W5vbCgFReSA&e=
It's of the develop branch in the SItoA Github repository as it looks
today: 
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_Autodesk_sitoa_tree_develop&d=DwIFaQ&c=76Q6Tcqc-t2x0ciWn7KFdCiqt6IQ7a_IF9uzNzd_2pA&r=GmX_32eCLYPFLJ529RohsPjjNVwo9P0jVMsrMw7PFsA&m=GigPRkFXBujN6tWE5HJY9Sr9pwqhbQOldlMKeS1A_cE&s=weyQ13HNzYHcxCk46xqkutDFLhbKe0JwFz6CClgXuYo&e=
It's named it SItoA 5.0.0-alpha. It doesn't have all the new features.
Please read the closed PRs of what's new:
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_Autodesk_sitoa_pulls-3Fq-3Dis-253Apr-2Bis-253Aclosed&d=DwIFaQ&c=76Q6Tcqc-t2x0ciWn7KFdCiqt6IQ7a_IF9uzNzd_2pA&r=GmX_32eCLYPFLJ529RohsPjjNVwo9P0jVMsrMw7PFsA&m=GigPRkFXBujN6tWE5HJY9Sr9pwqhbQOldlMKeS1A_cE&s=UfkLEkOJG24OUz_WHQaGFg7kILa0Ld7Y8hbKCsQFZR4&e=
It's compiled against Softimage 2015 SP2 and Arnold 5.1.1.0 which must have
been released today or something because they haven't announced it yet.
To be able to compile you need Visual Studio 2012. There's a free version
called *Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop*. Make sure it's the
Desktop version. It' doesn't hurt to install the *Visual Studio 2015 Update
5* update after that as well. Downloads can be found here:
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__my.visualstudio.com_Downloads-3Fq-3Dvisual-2520studio-25202012-26wt.mc-5Fid-3Do-7Emsft-7Evscom-7Eolder-2Ddownloads&d=DwIFaQ&c=76Q6Tcqc-t2x0ciWn7KFdCiqt6IQ7a_IF9uzNzd_2pA&r=GmX_32eCLYPFLJ529RohsPjjNVwo9P0jVMsrMw7PFsA&m=GigPRkFXBujN6tWE5HJY9Sr9pwqhbQOldlMKeS1A_cE&s=bsn4ewi-WlUVW8TD-66Hv35i_BUAqx0uA4yjEsMDSO0&e=
When you have installed that the easiest way to build is to launch the VS
Developer console and run abuild from there. Make sure it's the 64-bit one.
It's called *VS2012 x64 Cross Tools Command Prompt* on the start menu.

/Jens


On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 6:58 AM, Tenshi  wrote:

> @Jens, yes, its the windows one i need.
>
> i keep getting this error, can´t compile. What other software do i need to
> compile? thanks in adv,
>
>
> On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 4:12 AM, Jens Lindgren <
> jens.lindgren@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> @Tenshi: If it's windows you need I can post that when I get home after
>> work.
>>
>> /Jens
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 12:03 AM, Tenshi  wrote:
>>
>>> If someone can share the last Sitoa plugin version because i've been
>>> trying to compile the source without any luck, python troubles and so on..
>>>
>>> need this for my job.
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 25, 2018, 09:26 toonafish  wrote:
>>>
 Hi Rob,

 If I’m not mistaken I have a working version of Sitoa 4.1 / Arnold
 5.0.1.1.

 Just mail me, maybe I can help out.

 Cheers,

 Ronald van Vemden
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