Rendering/previewing with 3delight gives nothing

[lcrivell]

Hi !
I have 3delight Pro Studio 10 setup, Maya 2013 on MacOS, a destination directory set in the render globals, but when I do a preview (3Delight), nothing appears on screen, a folder structure is created in my dest dir (beauty, colour, depth, light... folders), but all folders are empty. The beauty check box is well checked in the globals.
If I render a frame with 3delight, then no agent is appearing at all (they are placed).
Any clue why ?
Thanks,
Laurent

[Yeah YANG]

Hi Laurent,

Thank you for your feedback.
I have 3 questions:

1. would you please let me know when you click preview, is there any render window pop up?? it is 3delight i-display window.

2. is there any information in "Maya Output Window"

3. would you please try to export a RIB and see is everything OK?

Sorry for bringing inconvenience~~

Best,
--Yeah

Nov 3, 2012 22:54:13 GMT -5 lcrivell said:

Hi !
I have 3delight Pro Studio 10 setup, Maya 2013 on MacOS, a destination directory set in the render globals, but when I do a preview (3Delight), nothing appears on screen, a folder structure is created in my dest dir (beauty, colour, depth, light... folders), but all folders are empty. The beauty check box is well checked in the globals.
If I render a frame with 3delight, then no agent is appearing at all (they are placed).
Any clue why ?
Thanks,
Laurent

[lcrivell]

Hi Yeah !
To answer your questions:
No the is no iDisplay appearing
Nothing in the maya script output
A generated RIB file is attached to this document

Thanks for your help, really appreciated.
Once I make it work, I will for sure consider buying your software.

Laurent

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[lcrivell]

And the attached crowd.mb file which generated the rib.

Thank you !
Laurent

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[Yeah YANG]

Hi Laurent,

Under windows, the RIB file seems perfect all right, I directly render it out, it's a plane, no light in scene (so it's totally black but with alpha channels)

I'm not sure is there anything about the 3delight version and configuration.

Due to we don't have Mac machine in our company, we're using Virtual Machine. let me ask my friend with Mac Machine and then tell you some solutions:)

Deeply sorry for bringing inconvenience.

Nothing in the maya script output
Oh i'm not means the script editor, I mean output window,
maybe Mac OSX don't have that. Please start Maya by terminal and see some feedback inside.

the i-display also need setup some system variable, but I thought it should setup automatically by installation. Would you please re-install a 3delight Pro Studio.

I have another better idea, just batch render, skip the i-display preview, just use:
Miarmy > Render Extra > Render Batch to Image Files. and see is there any image out there

Please setup render in Render Global firstly:)

Best,
--Yeah

Nov 5, 2012 23:22:36 GMT -5 lcrivell said:

Hi Yeah !
To answer your questions:
No the is no iDisplay appearing
Nothing in the maya script output
A generated RIB file is attached to this document

Thanks for your help, really appreciated.
Once I make it work, I will for sure consider buying your software.

Laurent

[lcrivell]

Hello Yeah,
What should I precisely setup in the Render Global ? Just the image name and folder destination ? I don't find any i-display information there. I have reinstalled 3delight, changed the floor color to red of the attached file, and 3delight is rendering it in... gray. However I used the 3delight rendering from Maya directly, not via Miarmy. So I just wonder if rendring the attached file on your computer would give a red floor too.
Really sorry for my inconvenience to you and thanks for your help,
Laurent

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[Yeah YANG]

Hi
Yes, it just need setup the output folder and name,

Then please use
Miarmy > Render Extra > Render Batch to Image Files
Or
Miarmy > Render Extra > Render Batch to RIB Files

to test whether that OK:)

It's no need to install 3delight for Maya.

No I rendered you scene it's a gray also, but when I give it a texture, it's OK.

Hope it will be fine soon.
--Yeah

Nov 6, 2012 23:37:47 GMT -5 lcrivell said:

Hello Yeah,
What should I precisely setup in the Render Global ? Just the image name and folder destination ? I don't find any i-display information there. I have reinstalled 3delight, changed the floor color to red of the attached file, and 3delight is rendering it in... gray. However I used the 3delight rendering from Maya directly, not via Miarmy. So I just wonder if rendring the attached file on your computer would give a red floor too.
Really sorry for my inconvenience to you and thanks for your help,
Laurent

[lcrivell]

Hi Yeah,
When rendering the scene with unplaced characters, it displays the one person (in gray colour even if I put him in Lambert/red), however when placing them, everything disappears from the render.
Please see attached the rib and tiff files.
BTW, Am I supposed to attach a body to the rig (I did the setup rig) or is it automatically added by miarmy ?

I really hope we will get there, I am eager to play with your tool !

Thanks for your help,
Laurent

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[lcrivell]

And the generated tiffs.

Laurent

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[lcrivell]

Hi Yeah,
I did some further investigation and I believe that the way your app is looking for variables that may be strange.
If you look the screen shot, I displayed in Maya all the environment variables ("system env" in the mel console), and the DELIGHT variable is present. However your application says that it cannot be found.

If you need to remote control my Mac to perform your tests, I am fine. I can send you the information per email.

Any idea ?
Thanks,
Laurent

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[lcrivell]

Sorry, with good attachment format now

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[Yeah YANG]

Hi Laurent,

Oh I'm so sorry for the late reply, the variable is system but not maya variable.
Sorry about that I'm not familiar with Mac, let me check that in VMware so that I can answer your question.

If need, please write to me:
[e-mail]

Thank you for your trying!!
--Yeah

Nov 8, 2012 22:07:42 GMT -5 lcrivell said:

Sorry, with good attachment format now

[Yeah YANG]

Hi Laurent,

if need render agents by placement, all geometry need to put into Geometry_XXX and skin with original agent.

I read and rendered your rib, it's just a plane without agent's geo meshes.

Have you put the agent mesh into the Geometry_XXX and bind to original agent?

Nov 7, 2012 21:55:59 GMT -5 lcrivell said:

Hi Yeah,
When rendering the scene with unplaced characters, it displays the one person (in gray colour even if I put him in Lambert/red), however when placing them, everything disappears from the render.
Please see attached the rib and tiff files.
BTW, Am I supposed to attach a body to the rig (I did the setup rig) or is it automatically added by miarmy ?

I really hope we will get there, I am eager to play with your tool !

Thanks for your help,
Laurent