I just wanted to make sure someone was aware that the Service Release Candidates for SR22 have been breaking our Rendering process within JewelBeetle. We run Rhino in Framework mode.
When running the Bella plugin as your current renderer, if you attempt to render you will see it begin the process, but the Render Buffer Window does not show up.
I can export to the Bella Render GUI and it renders fine, but within Rhino it fails.
Rolling back to SR21 fixes the problem.
Sometimes, not all of the time, when it fails to show the render buffer window, you receive a notification in the Application Event Log:
I can’t repeat that here - Bella runs fine here in Framework and Core modes, both in viewport mode and using the Render button. I can’t make it crash no matter how hard I try!
@dale@andy thank you for taking the time to look at this, I appreciate your immediate attention.
I re-tested the issue with and without our Rhino Skin, and it appears as though in SR22 something must have changed in the ETO controls, and our ETO Color adjustment methods that we had employed since Rhino 7 to achieve our dark skin, was now causing an issue in Rhino 8 SR22.
I also observed some strange exceptions when viewing the Advanced section of the Rhino Options window. We had to do some hacky UI stuff to get certain ETO dialogs in Rhino to show a complimentary color scheme in Rhino 7:
Thankfully I can remove all of that logic from our Rhino 8 users, and the themes in Rhino do the job well.
Again, sorry to have sent you on a wild goose chase. But the problem is now resolved. I assume there are some new ETO controls in the Render Frame window in SR22 that were being broken by our eto hacks.
