Hi everybody …
I wanted to check out if i could use Ember to generate some kind of a “spacewarp” for controlling the FFX grid flows of velocitys around an object … something that fume dosnt do but that is easily done in houdini and maya .
So as i m running 2010x64 for production , i started doing the install ( schematic loader first then the ember 2010x64 folder ) but i got the paramblock errors that other users have gotten and didnt seems to get answered .
So i tried to run 2013x64 as its my test platform ( didnt use anything in between after the early alpha tests ) and again their i m not getting the paramblock errors on load but the mascript dosnt load and errors out after max started… and i do not have anything called ember in the helper menue… also trying to hardcode the category shortcut for SIM creation of ember will create an error on execution as well .
so i m stuck at this moment , still wanting to try this out and see if this could help current situations … any help is appreciated .
Can you please post screenshots of what you are seeing, or at least a link to other people’s posts where this was reported?
I have not experienced this problem myself and need more info…
I can see how this can happen. For some reason, the \Scripts folder of Ember or its parent folder appears to be part of the 3ds Max plugin paths. It MAY NOT be included in the plugin.ini in any form or shape!
The file “Ember_MagmaFlow.ms” is only loaded when the Open Editor button is pressed from the UI of the plugin, NOT when Max is launching.
Can you post the plugin.ini file content of 3ds Max 2013?
On my system, Ember is inside the folder
C:\Program Files\Thinkbox\Ember MX
The plugin.ini points at
C:\Program Files\Thinkbox\Ember MX\3dsMax2013
where the DLO is located, as well as the “EmberStartup.ms” file which is the ONLY script file of Ember that may be part of a startup folder when Max booths.
The Scripts are located under
C:\Program Files\Thinkbox\Ember MX\Scripts
So when Max is running through the plugin paths, it first finds the folder with the .DLO where the Plugin.ini is pointing at.
Then when it loads scripts, it also runs the “EmberStartup.ms”, and that in turn does some loading of other scripts including the “Ember_MagmaFlowManager.ms”.
So you should make sure that the folder containing Ember.DLO is the ONLY one listed in your plugin.ini, next to the ThinkboxSchematicControl path.
If you include the Ember path (in my case "C:\Program Files\Thinkbox\Ember MX"), this will cause ALL .MS files found in its subfolders to be loaded in no particular order, which would cause a mess similar to the one you are experiencing…
Your Ember path looks wrong. It points at the root folder of your Ember install. It should point one directory deeper, where the EmberMX.DLO file is located. It should be called "C:\Program Files\Thinkbox\EmberMX35_2013\3dsMax2013". As it is now, you are causing ALL .ms files in "C:\Program Files\Thinkbox\EmberMX35_2013\Scripts" to be auto-loaded, which is a big No-No and explains the error you are seeing…
promise? 