Maya 2009 Render Globals

[Brian Sundman]

I have compiled the plugin for Maya 2009; it loads fine but when i switch to Liquid in the render globals I get the error "// Error: Object not found: commonTabColumn. //" and the globals windows shows only the "Liquid" tab with nothing in it.

Has anyone tried working with Liquid and Maya 2009?  any fixes?

[Alf Kraus]

Hi Brian,

thanks to Autocad all custom renderers are now forced to have the common globals tab. It can be fixed in the Maya scripts but its kind of awkward having to make this change as part of the liquid installation.

Colin has sent me a better solution for this, it just adds the common tab to liquid, I will add it to the svn soon, here it is for now:

change:

registerLiquidRenderer.mel

global proc liquidAddTabs()
{
if ( `renderer -exists "liquid"`)
{
     renderer -edit
              -addGlobalsTab
                "Common"
                "createMayaSoftwareCommonGlobalsTab"
                "updateMayaSoftwareCommonGlobalsTab"
              liquid;
                       
   renderer  -edit
             -addGlobalsTab        "Liquid"
                                   "liquidCreateGlobalsTab"
                                   "liquidUpdateMayaGlobals"
             liquid;
                        }
}

Cheers
Alf

[Brian Sundman]

Thanks Alf, I thought it was one of the mel files I just know which one.  It's working now except for when i click on the "Image" tab I get the error "// Error: Cannot create UI object: liquidGlobalslimitsOThresholdField" all the other tabs under Liquid seem to be working fine.

[Alf Kraus]

I have made a svn commit with the latest changes, it fixes the image tab and the globals fix above.

Best
Alf

[Brian Sundman]

Thanks for all the help Alf,  I have Liquid 2.3.5 compiled for Maya 2009  on OSX if anyone wants it or my updated xcode project file :)

[dennis bob]

Yes I really want  liquid 2.3.5 for osx.  I am no good at compiling that stuff myself and I have been looking everywhere for it.  can you make a torrent ? or upload it some where?

[Darcel]

...Yes I would also be very grateful if I could get your OS X version as well?  Thank you for sharing!

[Brian Sundman]

i have a link to the compiled osx version on my website, http://www.sundman.ca.  this is the compiled plugin only and does not include the standalone binary for renderfarms.  there is also no installer or instructions.

[Darcel]

Thank you Brian!  A bit odd how there is no real documentation on this...I hope people become more interested in its development!

[Darcel]

OK...so I have the liquid plugin showing up inn the menu, however when I try to load it I get this error:

// Error: Unable to dynamically load : /Applications/Liquid-2.3.5/bin/liquid.bundle
dlopen(/Applications/Liquid-2.3.5/bin/liquid.bundle, 1): Library not loaded: /Applications/Graphics/Liquid-2.3.5/bin/RILIB.dylib
  Referenced from: /Applications/Liquid-2.3.5/bin/liquid.bundle
  Reason: image not found //
// Error: dlopen(/Applications/Liquid-2.3.5/bin/liquid.bundle, 1): Library not loaded: /Applications/Graphics/Liquid-2.3.5/bin/RILIB.dylib
  Referenced from: /Applications/Liquid-2.3.5/bin/liquid.bundle
  Reason: image not found //
// Error: dlopen(/Applications/Liquid-2.3.5/bin/liquid.bundle, 1): Library not loaded: /Applications/Graphics/Liquid-2.3.5/bin/RILIB.dylib
  Referenced from: /Applications/Liquid-2.3.5/bin/liquid.bundle
  Reason: image not found (liquid) //

Thoughts as Im not familiar with this code?

Thank you.

[Darcel]

Nevermind got it, installed in wrong directory...thank you again!

[hajimen]

Change liquidAddTabs() which is in registerLiquidRenderer.mel like below.

global proc liquidAddTabs()

{

renderer -edit

-addGlobalsTab               "Common"
   
"createMayaSoftwareCommonGlobalsTab"
   
"updateMayaSoftwareCommonGlobalsTab"
   
liquid;

renderer  -edit

-addGlobalsTab        "Liquid"
   
"liquidCreateGlobalsTab"
   
"liquidUpdateMayaGlobals"
   
liquid;

}

Cheers.