just installed Krakatoa 1.5.1.37520 and trying save TP particles to partitions get an --Unknown property:“name” in ReferenceTarget:InOutNode (KrakatoaGUI.ms line 8123)
WinXP x64 and MAX2008 x64
cheers,
Bandu
just installed Krakatoa 1.5.1.37520 and trying save TP particles to partitions get an --Unknown property:“name” in ReferenceTarget:InOutNode (KrakatoaGUI.ms line 8123)
WinXP x64 and MAX2008 x64
cheers,
Bandu
I am quite sure I fixed this last Friday in the process of fixing the TP partitioning slowdown (yay!)
I am attaching the current script files as a ZIP. Try unzipping in your …\Prime Focus\Krakatoa\Scripts folder and see if the problem persists.
If this does not fix the problem, please let us know.
This is quite work in progress, so keep your eyes open for strange things.
When partitioning locally or on Deadline, Krakatoa will now call the renderer just once and use a callback to update the progress info on each frame.
This means that TP won’t start updating from the first frame on each frame but save continuously as desired, and general partitioning performance will be better even with non-TP scenes.
When partitioning, you will now see the Render dialog with its Cancel button and you should be able to cancel local partitioning by pressing it (or pressing Esc).
THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND:
*As a side effect of this change, the existing >Skip Existing Frames option in Local Partitioning had to be temporarily disabled (will come back again later).
*Also, partitioning of Custom Frames (the 4th time option in the render dialog with the 1,3,5-12 list) is not supported on Deadline anymore.
*The backup option of the Deadline Partitioning now copies/moves the frames after all frames have been saved (caused by a Max limitation).
WARNING: Partitioning MatterWaves operators in TP is broken thanks to Cebas (parameters are exposed incorrectly to MAXScript and cannot be changed). I assume it has always been, but I noticed just recently. All other operators with a RandomSeed should work.
Scripts_20090915.zip (186 KB)
Thank You Bobo, now it works!
one thing on this new scripts, The GUI Rollouts are disabled/hidden on opening Krakatoa GUI and I needed them to make visible in the “Manage Krakatoa Gui Rollouts” rollout
cheers,
Bandu
Thanks, that is a side effect of something I am working on right now, will try to fix it ASAP and will post an update.
I replaced the UI file in the same ZIP - please download again and see if it works now.
Krakatoa UI is fine with this update!
Just a heads up that the Deadline portion of the partitioning code was broken in that update, and we just fixed it.
We are also adding the >Skip Existing Frames as a global option that will affect all forms of particles saving including local and network partitioning and regular particles sequence saving.
We also fixed the network backup code to copy/move each frame right after it has been written, and to fail the job if the number of particles processed is less than the number of particles expected to be processed. (we had some cases where it would fail silently and mark the job as done without saving anything).