Softimage Explosia FX released!

[Hirazi Blue]

CGChannel has picked up on it now: Blackcore releases ExplosiaFX for Softimage

[FXDude]

I still find that to be good news despite everything

[Bullit]

I agree FXDude

[xeraphine]

Hello, having problem with explosiaFx, am following the instructions about shaders path, but the arnoldExplosiaFx.dll does not load. What i´m missing. Thanks

[Rork]

9 out of 10 times it's some kind of dll dependency. Get 'dependency walker' and see if the plugin is missing some kind of MS VC++ redist pack or something.

rob

[Mr.Core]

Can you copy-paste what you get in the history when render with arnold shaders ? Basically neither ArnoldExploisaFX nor qt stuff should not even appear in the plugin manager because it does not have any of softimage plugin callbacks.
I already have implemented my own network subsystem for both win and linux and will remove these qt libs in the next update soon (alongside with linux build)

[xeraphine]

Hi Rork, i attach a printscreen from dependency walker, it seems that AI.DLL is missing but i have ai.dll in the bin/ntx86-64 folder.

Mr.Core, maybe ill wait for the update in the meantime this are the history log:

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Application.PlaybackStop("")
# WARNING : [arnold] node "skin" is already installed
# WARNING : [arnold] node "volume_collector" is already installed
# WARNING : [arnold] node "volume_sample_rgb" is already installed
# WARNING : [arnold] node "volume_sample_float" is already installed
# WARNING : [arnold] unable to load dynamic library Z:\Softimage Workgroup\XSI_EFX_Workgroup\Application\Plugins\bin\nt-x86-64/Qt5Cored.dll: No se puede encontrar el módulo especificado.
# 
# WARNING : [arnold] unable to load dynamic library Z:\Softimage Workgroup\XSI_EFX_Workgroup\Application\Plugins\bin\nt-x86-64/Qt5Networkd.dll: No se puede encontrar el módulo especificado.
# 
# INFO : [sitoa] Frame 16 exported to Arnold in 0.134 sec.
# WARNING : [arnold] [EFX][ERROR][PackedVolumeShader]: Unable to open volumeShader file! Z:\P_Reel\WORK\SOFTIMAGE\P_Reel\efx_cache\Scene\volumeShaderGraph00016.efx1sh
# WARNING : [arnold] [EFX][ERROR][PackedVolumeShader]: Unable to open volumeShader file! Z:\P_Reel\WORK\SOFTIMAGE\P_Reel\efx_cache\Scene\volumeShaderGraph00016.efx1sh
# WARNING : [arnold] [EFX][ERROR][PackedVolumeShader]: Unable to open volumeShader file! Z:\P_Reel\WORK\SOFTIMAGE\P_Reel\efx_cache\Scene\volumeShaderGraph00016.efx1sh
# WARNING : [arnold] [EFX][ERROR][PackedVolumeShader]: Unable to open volumeShader file! Z:\P_Reel\WORK\SOFTIMAGE\P_Reel\efx_cache\Scene\volumeShaderGraph00016.efx1sh
# WARNING : [arnold] [EFX][ERROR][PackedVolumeShader]: Unable to open volumeShader file! Z:\P_Reel\WORK\SOFTIMAGE\P_Reel\efx_cache\Scene\volumeShaderGraph00016.efx1sh
# WARNING : [arnold] too many messages (>5) of type: "[EFX][ERROR][PackedVolumeShader]: Unable to open volumeShader file! Z:\P_Reel\WORK\SOFTIMAGE\P_Reel\efx_cache\Scene\volumeShaderGraph00016.efx1sh" -- not printing any more!

Thanks

[Mr.Core]

According to this log the shader is loaded successfully by arnold , you just have to match the caches folder path and the shader cache search path

[xeraphine]

According to this log the shader is loaded successfully by arnold , you just have to match the caches folder path and the shader cache search path

Solved, i miss to follow the instructions thats say to change the folder path, thats the lack of sleep. Now am going to burn something. Great plugin. Thanks to all.

[Tekano]

a dry ice smoke instead of flame , I could not get the mental ray side to render with default plugin (2015 R2) so this is still rendered in Mental Ray but from a an Explosia generated VDB cache using emfluid5 and binary alchemy fluid shader to load and render the grid

[Bullit]

The smoke fluid movement looks very good.

[Mr.Core]

I could not get the mental ray side to render with default plugin (2015 R2)

Is there any error in the history when you tried to render with mray ?

[Tekano]

Is there any error in the history when you tried to render with mray ?

sure, I never got past further than this stuck at 0% whereas Arnold and your preview render rendered fine. it is just a default create smoke preset from the menu

// INFO : [EFX][VDB][Node:FieldIO][WriteVDB]: Updating D:\projects\<snipped>\xsi\efx_cache\smoke_created2\light_mscatt_b00362.vdb

// ERROR : PHEN 0.10 17 MB error: [EFX]:[ERROR]IoError: could not get size of file D:\projects\<snipped>\xsi\efx_cache\smoke_created2\velx00362.vdb

<and Y and Z of vel>

// WARNING : PHEN 0.8 17 MB warn 052009: running out of stack space, breaking shader call recursion.
// WARNING : PHEN 0.9 19 MB warn 052009: running out of stack space, breaking shader call recursion.
// WARNING : PHEN 0.11 20 MB warn 052009: running out of stack space, breaking shader call recursion.
// WARNING : PHEN 0.10 20 MB warn 052009: running out of stack space, breaking shader call recursion.
// WARNING : PHEN 0.12 20 MB warn 052009: running out of stack space, breaking shader call recursion.
// WARNING : PHEN 0.5 20 MB warn 052009: running out of stack space, breaking shader call recursion.

then xsi hangs heavy / freezes gives option to restart. bah Mental Ray!

l I circumnavigated with emfluid5s ability to load a vdb file into a grid and use Holgers BAFluid shader to render it with. equivelent speeds to Arnold also but not as fast as your preview render

[Mr.Core]

Is this "<snipped>" label is just a hidden name by you or it is a true name reported by xsi ? I am asking because windows does not allow such brackets to be in name of folder/file - in this case i'd like to know the non-distorted full path to file.
Also can you please attach any sample vdb file generated by efx, lets say smoke.vdb ?

[Tekano]

its just a really long path that is <snipped> sorry was lots of text otherwise

here is link to 1 frame of vdb

[Tekano]

ha lol got it to work with Mental Ray by backtracking to a previous version and redoing the process properly.

so user error here. firstly had left the path in the shader to
<whatever path>/scene when it should have been
<whatever path>/[scene]/ using the [scene] token. when it did not work I started replacing tokens with explicit paths - fine until I change the scene name later on!

secondly I did not have write smoke and velocity enabled in the EFX initialise system parameters

Also, I think that had tried rendering with Arnold beforehand in the same scene and not regenerated files just changed the shader from EFX_FluidShaderGraph_ai to EFX_FluidShaderGraph_mi and setting the renderer to Mental Ray. which causes the problems I had about stack space whatever when I do a render region -

so lol sheepish grin, EFX mental ray shader works fine if you follow the instructions !

tldr; user error. it seemed I was pointing to older versions of files by changing token paths to explicit