RhinoBridge release

nathanletwory · October 1, 2021, 4:18pm

Shht, don’t blow my cover! I’ve cultivated this human face for a long, painful period.

D-W · October 1, 2021, 5:42pm

I don’t have that issue at all it works perfectly here.

Checked also in meters but displacement value was scaled:

@nathanletwory couldn’t resist with Cycles bridge

@huss191998 are you running the latest Rhino? I really don’t know why this issue is happening to you. Here no matter what it’s working perfectly.

huss191998 · October 1, 2021, 7:46pm

Thanks @D-W but I have 2 inquires why my rhino bridge import geometry as blocks and why my displacement map is set to 10 by default even working with different rhino templates ?
solved ! But why my displacement map default value is always 10 ?

D-W · October 1, 2021, 8:22pm

Because @lando.schumpich took his time to save your resources as this way it’s far more efficient to use this blocks and copy them around - you RAM is surely happy about this fact.

This is an interesting question. Maybe you have an old version of the bridge? It looks like it was addressed a longer while ago.

Btw. I don’t know if this will make any difference but also try setting your current renderer to Cycles this may be important (I know that from my own dev exp)

Also this may help:

It’s interesting that I have it off and it works - maybe it’s negated somewhere? This may be a silly bug just being the opposite but that’s just guesswork.

huss191998 · October 1, 2021, 9:09pm

I’m working with the latest version as you can see
It weird but not that big deal I just have to decrease the value by myself and it works fine

D-W · October 1, 2021, 9:15pm

Mhm… I admit it’s weird I see you have many plugins running maybe something is colliding? You can check that also. Just turn off all plugins and run only Bridge and check if the issue persists if not then it will be helpful to know what plugin is causing it, for sure could be valuable info for @lando.schumpich

huss191998 · October 1, 2021, 9:40pm

i have disabled all the plugins that doesn’t ship with rhino and still persist
so it may problem with rhino bridge or my system

D-W · October 2, 2021, 7:22am

One last question, I think you’ve tested this already but to be entirely sure - did you tried with the original rhino template for eg. centimeters small/large?

IMHO this is weird as it looks that this is fault of something in rhino indeed … From my POV here we have two options first and second and first shouldn’t scale it at all… While in my case it is scaled correctly in your case it behaves like you would have set millimeters always.

@nathanletwory is it possible that RDK scales displacement somewhere? For eg when an object is scaled?

nathanletwory · October 2, 2021, 11:10am

Quite possible. I forget what the current status is of that mechanism. @andy will know.

Trimanonymous · November 5, 2021, 1:00pm

hi when will this plugin support Newer versions?(rhino 7 /quixel birdge)

user1131 · November 16, 2021, 4:07pm

hey Lando thank you for the great work that you have done!!!

I’m still having some issues with the 0.2.1 version of the plugin.
basically the rhino 07 crashes when trying to import any surfaces from Quixel bridge!

thank you

Simon_Vorhammer · November 26, 2021, 3:21pm

Same issue here

lando.schumpich · November 26, 2021, 4:31pm

Hi everyone, sorry for letting this go on for so long, I yanked all versions of RhinoBridge on the PackageManager, so they cannot be found/installed from there in their broken state.

I don’t have a R7 license at the moment, so I am unable to fix the bug, but soon™, I’ll get a new R7 license and have a look what changed in the Rhino API that leads to the crash.

Don’t expect anything before christmas, but I’ll get to it.

user992 · January 21, 2022, 7:38am

any news

lando.schumpich · January 21, 2022, 8:11am

Hi @user992 ,

yes I have R7 now and am investigating. Expect a fix to be rolled out before February

travis.designer.vn · January 23, 2022, 3:48am

I also confront with crash.
Please check and update plugin

kitjmv · January 26, 2022, 7:57am

Hello,

The problem occurs in BridgeImporter when it tries to read metadata.
Some meta is not a string value, like tiling_direction is an array value.

Just explicitly call the ToString method:

mElement.value = obj.GetValue ("value").ToString ();

github.com

Quixel/Bridge-C-Sharp-Plugin/blob/master/bridge-c-sharp-plugin/ms_bridge_importer.cs#L133

    
      
          
          
    asset.lodList.Add(geo);
          }
          //Parse and store meta data list.
          JArray metaData = (JArray)objectList["meta"];
          
          
foreach (JObject obj in metaData)
          {
              MetaElement mElement = new MetaElement();
              mElement.name = (string)obj["name"];
              mElement.value = (string)obj["value"];
              mElement.key = (string)obj["key"];
          
          
    asset.meta.Add(mElement);
          }
          //Parse and store textures list.
          JArray textureComps = (JArray)objectList["components"];
          
          
foreach (JObject obj in textureComps)
          {
              Texture tex = new Texture();

Also, metalness is actually not supported, and if it’s not supported, the plugins throw an error.
To have a resilient service, you can modify:

github.com

DerLando/RhinoBridge/blob/master/RhinoBridge/Converters/AssetConverter.cs#L37

    
      
              if (texture.type == "cavity") return TextureType.PBR_ClearcoatBump;
              if (texture.type == "displacement") return TextureType.PBR_Displacement;
              if (texture.type == "diffuse") return TextureType.Diffuse;
              if (texture.type == "gloss") return TextureType.PBR_Clearcoat;
              if (texture.type == "normal") return TextureType.Bump;
              if (texture.type == "roughness") return TextureType.PBR_Roughness;
              if (texture.type == "specular") return TextureType.PBR_Specular;
              if (texture.type == "opacity") return TextureType.Opacity;
              if (texture.type == "translucency") return TextureType.PBR_Sheen;
          
          
    var exception = new TextureTypeNotImplementedException(texture.type);
              throw exception;
          }
          
          
/// <summary>
          /// Extracts the <see cref="AssetType"/> from a given <see cref="Asset"/>
          /// </summary>
          /// <param name="asset"></param>
          /// <returns></returns>
          public static AssetType ExtractType(Asset asset)
          {

by

    // var exception = new TextureTypeNotImplementedException(texture.type);
    // throw exception;
    if (texture.type == "metalness") return TextureType.PBR_Metallic;
    Rhino.RhinoApp.WriteLine ($"Texture type " + texture.type  + " is not currently supported!");
    return TextureType.None;
}

jmv

petermasek · February 5, 2022, 10:53am

any news pls?

lando.schumpich · February 6, 2022, 10:37pm

This seems to have done the trick!

The TextureTypeNotImplementedException was already correctly filtered out and printed to the command line in the RhinoBridgePlugin.BridgeImporterOnRaiseAssetImport():

github.com

DerLando/RhinoBridge/blob/c271f0e94d3f9ccadcc6d684e671d5ee42f5405c/RhinoBridge/RhinoBridgePlugIn.cs#L237


      
          while (BridgeImporter.Instance.CanExport)
          {
              try
              {
                  // create a new event machine and assign to backing field
                  _eventMachine = new ImportEventMachine(BridgeImporter.Instance.GetNextAsset());
          
                  // execute the machine
                  _eventMachine.Execute();
              }
              catch (Exception ex)
              {
                  if (ex is TextureTypeNotImplementedException || ex is AssetTypeNotImplementedException ||
                      ex is GeometryFormatNotImplementedException)
                  {
                      RhinoApp.WriteLine(ex.Message);
                      return;
                  }
          
                  throw;
              }

but I also added an additional catch there, so there should be no more crashes at runtime. Thanks a lot @kitjmv !

I’m investigating now the weird displacement @huss191998 mentionend, this will take some more time to fix as I need to implement a smarter system to generate materials for assets.

I could already release a pre-release version with the crash hotfix though, I’ll do some more testing before that and see if I can’t get any crashes locally.

Thanks for your patience

benjamin · June 6, 2022, 10:32am

Any more news on fixes?

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