1.5 SP1 on Vista

[zeronove]

Yeah, I know...

Vista is not a great idea but my new laptop runs that, so..

my issue is:

VRay SP1 doesn't find its plugins

-plugins are installed and visible in correct folder

-plugin.ini in my VIZ 2008 root is correct (the vray additional plugin path line is the last one)

-the dongle works as I can access the VRay tabs inside render dialog

-in the material editor I can only see vrlightmtl, vraymtl and vraymtl/wrapper; ALL THE OTHERS VRAY PLUGINS ARE MISSING, I mean FastSSS, Vray blend and so on

-Vray camera is missing as well

everything inside the vrayplugins folder is totally unaccessible

any idea?

thanx in advance

[vlado]

Look at the plugin.ini file in the root folder of 3ds Max and make sure that the line about additional v-ray plugins is the last one.

Best regards,
Vlado

[zeronove]

hi Vlado,

as I mentioned in my first post I already double-checked the plugin.ini file in "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\VIZ2008";

here is its content:

[Help]
mental ray 3.5 Reference=C:\Program Files\Autodesk\VIZ2008\help\mr_reference.chm
[Directories]
V-Ray main plug-ins=C:\Program Files\Autodesk\VIZ2008\plugins
V-Ray additional plug-ins=C:\Program Files\Autodesk\VIZ2008\plugins\vrayplugins
;=;

everything seems OK, isn't it?

...than I tried to double-check the one in "C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Autodesk\VIZ\ 9 - 32bit\enu" as well

here it is:

[Directories]
Additional VIZ plug-ins=C:\Program Files\Autodesk\VIZ2008\PlugIns
[Help]

so I cut and paste the first one in this location and now every works fine

hope it helps

[vlado]

Ok, you could also have removed the ;=; part in the original file; looks like it can mess things up too.

Best regards,
Vlado

[zeronove]

I did other tests on this issue;
my only solution is to copy the plugin.ini in the max/viz root to the user folder as I described above; only removing the ;=; part from the last line isn't enought; anyway I don't know what is the purpose of that line?!

[vlado]

Me neither All I can say is that it is not put there by V-Ray...

Best regards,
Vlado

[mike_kennedy]

with max 9 and crashes we found that this can happen a lot....i backed up a good one (ini file) and then copy it over when ever this happens...