I was trying to install my old EIAS 9.1 (and even the old EIModeler 5.0.2! ) on Windows 11, to toy with some old projects of mine, but it is rejecting the old USB dongle's driver installer.

Is there a recommended dongle driver that is known to work with Windows 11, even if one has to set security exceptions or admin privileges? (I remember EIAS and EIM needing admin permissions)

EDIT: wondering about using VirtualBox's USB passthrough and some old Windows 7 or even XP 🙃, disconnected from the Internet.

I've been away for years, but the Pandemic moves in funny ways.   Working with very large images again. Never run into this though.

Renderama and Frame Strips.  The Stitching is not in order. 

I've just rebuilt the slave folders. Restarted the computer. 

Thanks,

Yon

The tree is seen mostly in reflection on a glass curtain wall and inox steel parts.

I use clipping maps end/or transparency maps with alpha channel to cut the leaves out of their supporting square polygons.

If you can't see the supporting polygons on direct view - one can see theses square polygons in the reflected parts of the images...

Any idea how to avoid having squares instead of leaves in the reflected parts of the image ? 

Best regards.... waiting for v10 (sounds like Godot !)

I have sorted the problem - using the collect files option seems to resolve the issue .  

I am only starting back with 3d and EAIS - I am using Silo and making uv maps in PS , when I bring them in all seems fine , but when updating or altering or even from a fresh load , some are the right way up in object display mode but downside up , or upside down when I render - really slowing progress and I don't know if its me or the application.  

All help would be greatly appreciated. 

I'm a legal user of EIAS3D v8 and I have the following problem.

EIAS v8 doesn't start with Sierra.

I tried "OS X Dongle Installer.pkg " without any success

What must I do to make it works ?

Thanks in advance

Last time I used Renderama this year it worked fine.

I use mostly 27" iMac (all updates forbidden - so no updating since last time) with OSX from 10.11 to 10.14

Now it won't start on 3 Macs out of 5... 

It bounces in the dock and then ... nothing (no window, no app launched)

The only thing I've done since is installing Archicad 22 on this 3 Macs.

On the 2 other Macs Renderama tells me : "file not found" when starting to download file to render - but they haven't got Archicad 22 installed...

The master is an old MacPro2012-2013 running OSX 10.10

Any Idea ?

... I guess it's time for EIAS v10 update (getting long !)

Finally, these settings seem to work for FACT format.

Still having trouble with other formats.

Hope this works for other users!

Render Rama not working in 10.13.6 

was wondering if anyone else had the same issue. Works fine on my other machine so 

I am able to get my work done there. But was just curious if there was something with 10.13.6 ?

The app itself comes up, its just not accepting any jobs from Animator. However 

the camera works fine Locally without network rendering 

Thanks so much 

I just upgrade one of my iMac 2011 with 16Gb Of RAM to MAC OS High Sierra (10.13) the the follow issue occurred.

Any fix?

Thank for any advice,

Burney

Process:               Animator [6730]
Path:                  /Applications/EIAS 9.1/Animator.app/Contents/MacOS/Animator
Identifier:            com.electricimage.animator
Version:               9.1 (???)
Code Type:             X86 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           Animator [6730]
User ID:               501

Date/Time:             2019-11-07 23:16:14.625 +0800
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.13.6 (17G8037)
Report Version:        12
Anonymous UUID:        96723E48-E8F0-B075-9CA8-EEC2687B59B6

Sleep/Wake UUID:       0F516042-F479-4167-A9DE-435CC54DA3D4

Time Awake Since Boot: 10000 seconds
Time Since Wake:       3800 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread:        0

Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Reason:    DYLD, [0x1] Library missing

Application Specific Information:
dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries

Dyld Error Message:
  Library not loaded: /Library/Frameworks/SuperPro32.framework/Versions/A/SuperPro32
  Referenced from: /Applications/EIAS 9.1/Animator.app/Contents/MacOS/Animator
  Reason: image not found

Binary Images:
    0x1000 -  0x12c3fef +com.electricimage.animator (9.1 - ???) <EFF363F1-F83C-B81D-295C-0C63CCF86CB0> /Applications/EIAS 9.1/Animator.app/Contents/MacOS/Animator
 0x16c3000 -  0x170914f  dyld (551.5) <BA17D93F-7A08-36C4-BB1A-EA4E0CA05AB2> /usr/lib/dyld
0x90015000 - 0x9001cfff  com.apple.agl (3.3.1 - AGL-3.3.1) <F95C57A1-69B7-36CA-9A0E-9115864B0BC0> /System/Library/Frameworks/AGL.framework/Versions/A/AGL
0x92d42000 - 0x92d42fff  com.apple.Carbon (158 - 158) <C03E8C43-BE26-3A94-8CB5-014E42850461> /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Carbon
0x9b3e4000 - 0x9b3f3fff  com.apple.opengl (16.7.4 - 16.7.4) <C669DAFB-473B-3EA7-9AA1-D346306114C5> /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/OpenGL
0x9c3f0000 - 0x9c648ffb  com.apple.QuickTime (7.7.3 - 3014.8) <43E74F6E-7BF5-3EE0-BBFC-8399C04A793C> /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickTime.framework/Versions/A/QuickTime

Model: iMac12,2, BootROM 87.0.0.0.0, 4 processors, Intel Core i5, 2.7 GHz, 16 GB, SMC 1.72f5
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6770M, AMD Radeon HD 6770M, PCIe
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1333 MHz, 0x8783, 0x5352413447383653312D4839482020202020
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1333 MHz, 0x8783, 0x5352413447383653312D4839482020202020
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM1, 4 GB, DDR3, 1333 MHz, 0x8783, 0x5352413447383653312D4839482020202020
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM1, 4 GB, DDR3, 1333 MHz, 0x8783, 0x5352413447383653312D4839482020202020
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x168C, 0x9A), Atheros 9380: 4.0.74.0-P2P
Bluetooth: Version 6.0.7f15, 3 services, 27 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: FireWire, FireWire, fw0
Network Service: Wi-Fi, AirPort, en1
Serial ATA Device: ST31000528AS, 1 TB
Serial ATA Device: OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5690H
USB Device: USB 2.0 Bus
USB Device: FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
USB Device: Hub
USB Device: Keyboard Hub
USB Device: USB Optical Mouse
USB Device: Apple Keyboard
USB Device: BRCM2046 Hub
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller
USB Device: USB 2.0 Bus
USB Device: Hub
USB Device: USB Superpro
USB Device: IR Receiver
USB Device: Internal Memory Card Reader
FireWire Device: My Passport 071D, WD, Up to 800 Mb/sec
FireWire Device: My Passport 071D, WD, Up to 800 Mb/sec
Thunderbolt Bus: iMac, Apple Inc., 25.1
 

Terrainman

Thank You for any advice.

Burney

I have bought a number of models from different internet vendors, in .obj, .3ds and .fbx formats. At least 3 out of every 10 models fail to import!

I also have the modelling program Rhino (Mac work-in-progress) which opens the failed imports no problems at all. I save them out of Rhino but they still fail to import into EI!

I am wasting my money on models that I have to trash in the bin, which is extremely frustrating.

Could there be a bug with EI's new model import function? Is there a work around? Is there a modelling program that can bridge the gap? Transporter doesn't work any more does it!?

I need help with this because I have a deadline on a project and can't put my hope in virtually any 3D model I see!

Michael

Partial solution : (Animator works fine but without Camera)

I use the right click on the "EIAS3D OS X Dongle Installer.mpkg" and Show Package Content.
I navigate inside the folders and install both "superpro32.pkg" and "sentinel.pkg" one after the other.

Then when trying to start Animator i get the error : Cannot allocate needed 3D Icon...

So the final step is to use the "Show Package Content" on Animator and navigate to
Animator/Contents/MacOS/ and open the "Animator" from there.
Animator is now working but rendering does not.

When I try to render, Camera will try to start but macOS tells me it is from an unidentified dev.

So I go in Settings/Security&Privacy/General there is a message :
Camera was blocked from opening... I clicked [Open Anyway]
Now Camera is opening but there is no window.
Strange since I can open camera now from Finder and it will show a window.

I tried to start everything from the command line with the sudo command sudo ./Animator without success.

Anyway did everything I could... as a future potential buyer/user.

Camera.exe -Application Error

The application was unable to start correctly. Click OK to close the application.

Assertion failed on line 24 of file Dbg_InitCounter.cpp: Failed to call Dbg_InitCounter::ShouldCleanUp() enough times to balance Dbg_InitCounter::ShouldInit()

then it crashes and produces a standard macOS app crash error dialog.

As I had shoved the USB key a little while repositioning a side screen, I tried putting it in another USB socket, to no avail (unplugging it produces the usual alert in such cases, so it doesn't seem to be that). Then I tried installing a fresh copy. Upon entering my activation code, Animator shows one of its own alert messages saying:

Cannot allocate needed 3D icon "IconBody_Camera" from EIResource folder

Those folder and file are there, fresh from the disk image file. This message doesn't appear when I launch the non-fresh Animator (or possibly it goes out too fast to be seen).

I've restarted the Mac, without results. Before I try more drastic steps, is this something that sounds familiar to anyone and suggests how to solve it?

I'm on an old hexacore Mac Pro, running macOS Sierra 10.12.6

Is there anything like that for .FAC files, any Quick Look generator plugin for FACTs?

I'm having issues after upgrading to High Sierra. I downloaded a fresh copy of EIAS9.1. Moved it to the Desktop, plugged in the dongle, launched both Animator and Camera. Animater triggered the serial number insertion which I did and was accepted. Camera alone starts without complaining. I can open any project and work in animator but if I try to render, when camera opens (with a task this time as opposed to not having to do anything), I get a MacOS modal dialog with:

“Camera_64” can’t be opened because the identity of the developer cannot be confirmed. 

And then an EI Modal Dialog with:

An OS exception occurred inside Camera.

I'm not sure this issue is related to high sierra specifically. It could just be a permission issue that I missed. Can anyone help me with this?

Is it possible to animate a texture over all surfaces of an object?

I animated a texture over a cube - but could get it to "move" over one of the surfaces....

I'm running a Mac Pro with 12 gigs of memory. 

Camera is crashing -- lack of memory seems to be the problem?

If more memory is added will camera use it?

Thanks for any insight/help.

Best

The problem is that all the buttons and the text are really small, almost to the point of being unclickable and unreadable.

Is there a way to rescale/resize the ui elements to a more comfortable level other than lowering the resolution or increasing the zoom/scaling on windows?

My concern is for the future, when my monitor stop working I will go for a 4k screen and I won't be able to use EIAS3D anymore.

This problem is so serious that Lightwave is loosing a lot of users because they failed to even recognized the problem.

For now I can deal with it, but as I get older and the screen dpi increase I won't.

Anyone have a fix for the issue seen here - the caustics is flickering a lot. There's only a single light with a photon density of 1. Yes I know that's low - but it renders fast and gives a nice blur on stills. but the issue is clear when animated. I have a big scene with lots of objects (dynamics) so don't want to crank up the density too high as it takes a lot longer to render. Also it just gives a fine flickery grain rather than a blobby one- the flickering is still there. Anyone with experience in this effect please let me know if there's some good settings that you've found. 

Also any advice on blurry global reflection maps? I'm using a blurry hdri but can't seem to get it to render without artifacts...

Many thanks

Rory

gems-caustics-issue_1.mov

I can't seem to find it. I'm trying to see how well the modeler works in windows 7 or 10.

It works fine in XP in Parallels on a mac, but that was an old install I did.