Re: XSI 6 breaking Ultimapper in XSI 5.11

[André Adam <a_adam(at)49games.de>]

I got a solution from Support meanwhile; opening a XSI 5.11 Comand 
Prompt and typing "runonce" solves the problem. Happy again. :)

   -André


Andi Farhall wrote:
> This one's just bitten me..... a reinstall of 5.11 fixed it. I wonder what else V6 breaks in 5.11.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM]On Behalf
> Of André Adam
> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 6:48 PM
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: XSI 6 breaking Ultimapper in XSI 5.11
>
>
> Yeha, off to support then, thanks a lot!
>
>     -André
>
> Adrian Lopez wrote:
>   
> > Looks like you're right, Andre.  Script works fine in 6, but not in 
> > 5.11.  We have both  installed here.
> >
> > Adrian
> >
> >
> > On 1/3/07, *André Adam* < a_adam(at)49games.de 
> > <mailto:a_adam(at)49games.de>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi everybody, happy new year!
> >
> >     We've hit a strange bug today, where having XSI 6 and XSI 5.11
> >     installed
> >     in parallel breaks the Ultimapper tool in XSI 5.11; it just does not
> >     render anything anymore. This applies to all of our workstations
> >     (Windows) and both XSI flavours (32bit, 64bit). Deinstalling both,
> >     XSI 6
> >     and XSI 5.11 and reinstalling XSI 5.11 seems to fix this
> >     particular problem.
> >     Perhaps someone running a similar setup can spend two minutes to
> >     run the
> >     script below (supposed to render a normal map of a cube to c:\)
> >     before I
> >     fire this off to support to make sure there is nothing weird with our
> >     install and this is a common issue. The script should run without
> >     error,
> >     but there should be no rendering process in the end and the file
> >     written
> >     to disk should be 0 bytes. That's what we experience over here.
> >
> >     Thanks!
> >
> >         -André
> >
> >     NewScene();
> >     CreatePrim("Cube", "MeshSurface", "CubeLow");
> >     CreatePrim("Cube", "MeshSurface", "CubeHigh");
> >     SetValue("CubeHigh.polymsh.geom.subdivu", 4, null);
> >     SetValue("CubeHigh.polymsh.geom.subdivv", 4, null);
> >     SetValue(" CubeHigh.polymsh.geom.subdivbase", 4, null);
> >     MakeLocal("CubeHigh.geomapprox");
> >     SetValue("CubeHigh.geomapprox.gapproxmosl,CubeHigh.geomapprox.gapproxmordrsl",
> >     Array(3, 3));
> >     GenerateUniqueUVs("CubeLow", "Texture_Projection");
> >     AddProp("Ultimapper", "CubeLow");
> >     SetValue("CubeLow.Ultimapper.Texcoord", "Texture_Projection");
> >     CreateVertexColorSupport("ColorAtVertices", "Tangents", "CubeLow");
> >     SetValue("CubeLow.Ultimapper.Tangent", "Tangents");
> >     ApplyOp("TangentOp2_cpp",
> >     "CubeLow.polymsh.cls.Texture_Coordinates_AUTO.Tangents;CubeLow.polymsh.cls.Texture_Coordinates_AUTO.Texture_Projection",
> >
> >     siUnspecified, siPersistentOperation, null, 2);
> >     SetValue("CubeLow.Ultimapper.Group", "CubeHigh");
> >     SetValue("CubeLow.Ultimapper.Resolution", 2048);
> >     SetValue("CubeLow.Ultimapper.SuperSampling ", 3);
> >     SetValue("CubeLow.Ultimapper.MapPath", "c:\\");
> >     GenerateUltimapper("CubeLow.Ultimapper");
> >
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