Getting 3delight to work with massive.

[Gravedigger]

never used massive yet

the error you get tells you that the RiProcedural call is not valid at the point where it's called. i think you simply took the wrong rib file

its common to create several ribs which are then loaded within one job rib. do you have a rib which loads the others? what ribs did you get?

grs
Gravedigger

[SilentRage]

The massive manual states rib files should be generated each frame for each of the following scene elements,
lights that require shadow maps, agents, and terrains.
And a master RIB should be genereated each frame that links to the above ribs.

I currently have no shadow map enabled lights and no terrain in the scene, so it should only generate agent ribs and master ribs, so far all it outputs when I do a sim is the above mentioned sims,

Procedural "DynamicLoad" ["massive_3delight.dll" "1 (null) F:/Massive/Sim/frame.4.apf 4"] [-0.1 0.1 -0.1 0.1 -0.1 0.1]

For example this one referes to frame.4 apf, which is the animation data, and massive_3delight.dll is supposed to be loaded when rendering to generate the geometry for the agents.

I guess I must be missing the master rib files?

[Gravedigger]

hmm i really don't have any experience with massive so you will have to wait until someone else can answer that

i just can say that the rib you tried to render does calls in a wrong context which is common for sub ribs called from master ribs

so yes i think your master rib is missing

[fudini]

Its probably worth noting, recently Aghiles posted a warning for Massive users:
http://www.3delight.com/en/modules/PunBB/viewtopic.php?id=2075

Those of you using Massive, please make sure to use the following attribute at the beginning of your RIBs:

Attribute "procedural" "reentrant" [0]

This disables an "optimization" in 3Delight that Massive cannot handle for now.

[SilentRage]

Thanks guys, I'll give this a try when I get to work, but I suspect I'm indeed missing the master rib. :/

[SilentRage]

Someone please help me figure out where the master ribs went, got people breathing down my neck here.

[lunat1k]

The render ribs you need are specified in Options > Renders > Render parameters > output ribs.

[SilentRage]

I tried setting up render parameters, then I setup a sim and ran it, but it still only spits out the same set of ribs as before, the ones that does a RiProcedure call.

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