Problem with Vray Proxy Preset Import

DSwayze

I'm working on a large scene and using the vray proxy settings seems to be the best way to keep things moving quickly. However I am running into an issue that I cannot seem to resolve (I have uninstalled and reinstalled the RN Plugin already) The behavior I see is this.

Set the preset browser to geometry=proxy and renderer=vray
The Rhino command line indicates that the files were successfully read, but I get an error message saying " File could not be loaded. An unexpected error occurred. Please verify if file has been edited manually"
Back in the Rhino UI a single vray proxy object appears at the origin, and a singe proxy object shows up in the vray asset editor, but no ecosystem shows up in the RN Panel and no RN functionality appears to be possible. Also, in the Rhino Block Manager it looks like a full ecosystem worth of blocks has been loaded but is not linked. (see attached Image)

Is this a bug, or am I doing something incorrectly. For what it's worth, loading a preset from the library with geometry=full seems to work just fine

thx

D-W

DSwayze everything is fine with your RN, showstopper was introduced on V-Ray side with latest update (V-Ray API methods names has changed thats why RN cannot link textures properly so actualy dialog info is misleading in this case. Anyway, this and few other fixes are already in testing and shortly I should roll minor update.

If you need this working ASAP you can import full, insert models in the origin and make own vrmeshes and swap entities to new ones (or even edit them inplace and make vrmeshes during _BlockEdit command -I guess it should work)

chrbjerre

Anything new regarding this issue? I have the latest version, and the problem is stil there

D-W

chrbjerre sonaar Sorry guys you're right that this issue should be solved long time ago. Actualy it is though there wasn't a release with this fix yet. I will do what I can to roll out such hotfix asap, max est. up to 10 days and it will be online.

sonaar

Same issue here...

sonaar

Any news here?

D-W

sonaar Hi! Yes I'm working on it and due to upcoming V-Ray 6 I'm checking if everything is ok for both versions. If current implementation will work without issues update will be availible during this week.

sonaar

D-W Ok, thanks for the info.

sonaar

How are the plans for Rhino Nature? Still missing a proper reaction on this issue here. Will it be continued or are there other plans? I think the last update was over a year ago. Please let us know your thoughts. Thanks.

D-W

sonaar No worries RN development will be continued!

sonaar

This problem still persists and it really is limiting the use of RN. I don't really understand why you have been promising a fix for the next days since one year (!) now. Please care about the trust of your customers or at least let them know what is going on!

agustin_ichu

Hello. Has a solution to this issue been found? I agree with the rest of the users that not being able to use proxies limits the use of RN. We hope for a prompt update. Greetings!

sonaar

Unfortunately many attempts into this directions were not succesful. It seems like the development of RN is discontinued. Very sorry about that. D-W has been anouncing updates within a week or so ever since (one year ago) but nothing ever happened. Sad but true.

D-W

sonaar It's not true. Besides, this is only one minor feature in the plugin and is broken due to the V-Ray API change. It's easy to blame. V-Ray is not the only supported engine here. You can perfectly save your own presets and load them without problems besides that. You want it now ok. I wanted to roll out a bigger update to be future-proof in the context of future Rhino API changes.

D-W

@DSwayze @chrbjerre @sonaar @agustin_ichu issue has been solved in this update.