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Re: Composite 2013 SP1 Installation Crapfest
Posted: 31 Oct 2012, 18:28
by ActionArt
Hirazi Blue wrote:@ActionArt & @TwinSnakes007
Did any of you file this a potential show stopper over at Support (and by that I mean the "anonymous" Support that lives in the “Subscription Center”, not our very own (former) “Head of Support" xsisupport).
Yes, see previous post. They've finally figured out what Composite is so that's a good sign.
I haven't had a chance to try all the help from Steven yet but will shortly.
Re: Composite 2013 SP1 Installation Crapfest
Posted: 31 Oct 2012, 18:37
by ActionArt
xsisupport wrote:I'd be curious to see a Process Monitor log for composite.exe.
I have Process Monitor but how do I create this?
Re: Composite 2013 SP1 Installation Crapfest
Posted: 31 Oct 2012, 18:50
by ActionArt
I tried replacing the PIT file but it had no effect.
The command setenv.bat from above "is not recognized as a command....
AD support sent this
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps ... ID=9241177
Which I have yet to make sense of. It's for Max and a network license, neither of which I have.
Re: Composite 2013 SP1 Installation Crapfest
Posted: 31 Oct 2012, 20:14
by xsisupport
ActionArt wrote:I tried replacing the PIT file but it had no effect.
The command setenv.bat from above "is not recognized as a command....
AD support sent this
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps ... ID=9241177
Which I have yet to make sense of. It's for Max and a network license, neither of which I have.
Use a text editor to create a toxik.ini file here:
C:\Users\<username>\Documents\toxik\2013
In the toxik.ini file, add these lines:
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toxik::deployment::licenseType Standalone
toxik::deployment::softimagelocation C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2013
I have a standalone MECSP license, and with that ini file, Composite tried to activate a standalone Softimage license (eg it showed me the Try or Activate screen for Softimage). So it did do something...
Re: Composite 2013 SP1 Installation Crapfest
Posted: 31 Oct 2012, 20:16
by xsisupport
ActionArt wrote:xsisupport wrote:I'd be curious to see a Process Monitor log for composite.exe.
I have Process Monitor but how do I create this?
http://xsisupport.com/2011/04/19/process-monitor-101/
Re: Composite 2013 SP1 Installation Crapfest
Posted: 31 Oct 2012, 20:55
by Hirazi Blue
ActionArt wrote:Hirazi Blue wrote:@ActionArt & @TwinSnakes007
Did any of you file this a potential show stopper over at Support (and by that I mean the "anonymous" Support that lives in the “Subscription Center”, not our very own (former) “Head of Support" xsisupport).
Yes, see previous post. They've finally figured out what Composite is so that's a good sign.
I haven't had a chance to try all the help from Steven yet but will shortly.
I didn't claim "they" would be able to solve the problem. Still having access to Stephen Blair is obviously priceless. The only thing I really wanted to highlight was that this is the kind of stuff "they" should be made aware of even if we have access to the "one and only" xsisupport to actually solve it. This is stuff that should not only be figured out and fixed on a per user basis, but on the application level. And yes, I apparently overlooked that "specific" previous post when writing my remarks - so I shouldn't have included your name - sorry! But the gist of what I wanted to point out still stands, regardless, I believe. Ever since xsisupport involuntarily left "their" building, I'm unsure if writing stuff here is enough to actually reach "them" as well.
;)
Re: Composite 2013 SP1 Installation Crapfest
Posted: 31 Oct 2012, 21:25
by ActionArt
Yes indeed, it really needs to be fixed in the actual install if they're going to include this thing.
Don't worry, they'll be well aware of it if they aren't already ;)
Re: Composite 2013 SP1 Installation Crapfest
Posted: 01 Nov 2012, 01:06
by TwinSnakes007
Got it!
[thanks to Steve]
First thing I did was try writing the toxik.ini file.....nope Composite still crashes.
So, from the command prompt, I know this works:
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set ADSK_COMPOSITE_LICENSE=SOFTIMAGE
C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2013 SP1\bin\setenv.bat
composite
So then I tried:
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set ADSK_COMPOSITE_LICENSE=SOFTIMAGE
composite
..and that still crashed...so I knew it wasnt the ASDK_COMPOSITE_LICENSE
So then I figured it was something that the setenv.bat is setting...turns out its SI_HOME.
So now this worked from the command line...
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set SI_HOME=C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2013 SP1
composite
So, for a permanent solution, all I ended up doing was adding SI_HOME as an environment variable and I'm back in business. No more crashes and I can run Composite by double-clicking the icon from the desktop.
Hope this helps other out there.
Re: Composite 2013 SP1 Installation Crapfest
Posted: 01 Nov 2012, 01:54
by ActionArt
Still didn't work for me, made no difference here.
Re: Composite 2013 SP1 Installation Crapfest
Posted: 01 Nov 2012, 10:59
by xsisupport
ActionArt wrote:Still didn't work for me, made no difference here.
If you can get me a Process Monitor log, I'll take a look and see if there's anything obvious going wrong (well, obvious from a Process Monitor point of view)
Re: Composite 2013 SP1 Installation Crapfest
Posted: 07 Nov 2012, 19:42
by ActionArt
Thanks to Stephen, I've got this figured out.
I was missing this registry key (for whatever reason).
http://screencast.com/t/6B2X6pVEyuOP
Just in case anyone else has this issue.
Re: Composite 2013 SP1 Installation Crapfest
Posted: 11 Nov 2012, 03:19
by Falam
I installed SP2 and the whole program is unusable the interface flickers, this is unacceptable. I'm not in a need to composting anything, I want to find out the reason for this.