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Maya crashes instantly and tons of plugin errors

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 11:00 am
by Rikk The Gaijin
Hi, I'm new to the Maya plugin (used years ago with v1, forgot everything).
I just purchased and downloaded the latest version (3.03.1 - 8.0 Win [ALPHA])
As soon as I click render Maya crashes instantly.
Every icon I click in the Octane menu bar, gives me errors in the lower Maya bar.
Creating an Octane camera just creates a normal Maya camera with none of the Octane options.
The Environment doesn't have any options.
Where is the manual? How do I use this thing?
Is it actually usable? :roll:

I'm using Maya 2016 Extension 1 + SP4

Re: Maya crashes instantly and tons of plugin errors

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 11:19 am
by EXP
i am facing the exact same issues right now just made a post on it a couple of minutes ago,

i don't have a clue of whats happening

Re: Maya crashes instantly and tons of plugin errors

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 2:30 pm
by Refracty
Sorry to say, but I would not suggest to use V3.0 alpha of the Maya Plugin yet.
It will take multiple months to have something stable I guess.
So only version 2 will be a serious option which still suffers some problems but much better then V3 alpha.

Re: Maya crashes instantly and tons of plugin errors

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 12:30 am
by Rikk The Gaijin
Refracty wrote:Sorry to say, but I would not suggest to use V3.0 alpha of the Maya Plugin yet.
It will take multiple months to have something stable I guess.
So only version 2 will be a serious option which still suffers some problems but much better then V3 alpha.
No, this is unacceptable. I purchased v3, which means there is a v3 of the plugin. If Otoy is selling a non-working version of the plugin they are basically scamming the users. If the plugin is not ready why is it on sale right now??? :x

Re: Maya crashes instantly and tons of plugin errors

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 9:27 am
by Refracty
You are right. There shouldn't be a commercial sale of the V 3.0 Maya plugin.
That makes no sense at the moment. Only if you label it "reduced preorder with experimental alpha release" or so.

Re: Maya crashes instantly and tons of plugin errors

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 10:14 am
by Rikk The Gaijin
Why there is no reply from the devs? What is going on? :x

Re: Maya crashes instantly and tons of plugin errors

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 12:55 pm
by nickson
Exactly the same thoughts here. There was no warning about the state of the 3.0 plugin development when purchasing. You'd assume buying a Maya 3.0 plugin would mean there is one but at the time I paid it wasn't even in alpha.

The amount of issues with the current 2.0 version is shocking, this shouldn't be a one man job. No offence to Kai but we paid a fair amount of money for this, the least you'd expect would be a semi useable version of what we paid for. Otoy really doesn't seem to care much about their customers. I didn't purchase a preorder, I paid the same price as everyone else on software packages with full integration, but I'm going to have to wait multiple months until it's even viable in my workflow.

Re: Maya crashes instantly and tons of plugin errors

Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2016 8:28 am
by mickyboys
I can only second this - not at all acceptable

Re: Maya crashes instantly and tons of plugin errors

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2016 5:22 am
by k.a.schubert
This week there will be a release fixing some issues as the IPR crash and adding some shelf buttons to create basic nodes and connect volumes to the node graph.

Atm please remember to create the basic nodegraph by hand:

nodegraph reference

Re: Maya crashes instantly and tons of plugin errors

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2016 9:05 am
by Rikk The Gaijin
k.a.schubert wrote: Atm please remember to create the basic nodegraph by hand:

nodegraph reference
Is this a joke?