SRC 8.11 - Bella Fails to Load

Hey folks,
today I tried the current SRC (8.11.24226.06002) - (hoped for speed improvements on lines).
I noticed that the Bella Renderplugin is kind of gone (I see the option in the render Tab but - Rhino render in cycles). I cannot select it as a render Engine and all Bella Material settings are not present anymore. I can See that the plugin is activated, I can see a Bella Tab on the System Bar above, I cannot see Bella as a render option in the System Bar tab “Render - Current Renderer” (Maxwell is still there

  • I tried to restart Rhino - nothing changes
  • I reinstall Bella - nothing changes
  • I delete Bella and than reinstall it - nothing changes
    I still use a test version of Bella - I Really want to use it as “first production engine” but the last updates of Rhino (ca. 8.9) kind of destabilize the plugin (I get a lot of crashes with the Material editor). In this state it is not usable for commercial projects. Maybe it has something to do with my old Intel mac.
    Hopefully this is something to fix between bella and Rhino
    @jdhill

Here are my System info:
Rhino 8 SR11 2024-8-13 (Rhino 8, 8.11.24226.06002, Git hash:master @ bdb34e68e0160956fc5633ba163aeb8fe1301c50)
License type: Commercial, build 2024-08-13
License details: Cloud Zoo

Apple macOS Version 12.7.6 (Build 21H1320) (Physical RAM: 16GB)
Mac Model Identifier: MacBookPro13,3
Language: en
.NET 7.0.0

Metal GPU Family Apple 0
Metal GPU Family Common 3
Metal GPU Family Mac 2
Graphics processors
Intel HD Graphics 530 (1536 MB)
AMD Radeon Pro 460 (4 GB)
P27u-20 (2560 x 1440 @ 60.00Hz)
GPU Vendor: AMD

USB devices
Samsung: Portable SSD T5
Apple Inc.: Apple T1 Controller
LaCie: 1big Dock CF-SD
LaCie: 1big Dock
LaCie: 1big Dock
Realtek: USB 10/100/1000 LAN
Apple Inc.: Apple Keyboard
Lenovo: P27u-20

Bluetooth devices
None

Third party kernel extensions
com.seagate.IOSED01 (50) 42D11973-967A-3CE6-8554-0EA15CB55353

Third party plugins
/Library/Frameworks/3DconnexionClient.framework/Versions/A/3DconnexionClient
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftAppKit.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCore.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCoreData.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCoreFoundation.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCoreGraphics.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCoreImage.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftDarwin.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftDispatch.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftFoundation.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftIOKit.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftMetal.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftObjectiveC.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftQuartzCore.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftXPC.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswift_Concurrency.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftos.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCloudKit.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCoreLocation.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCryptoTokenKit.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftContacts.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftAccelerate.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCoreAudio.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCoreML.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCoreMedia.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftOSLog.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftVision.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftsimd.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftNetwork.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftDemangle.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftFileProvider.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftIntents.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftPrivate_BiomePubSub.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftPrivate_BiomeStreams.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftUniformTypeIdentifiers.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftAVFoundation.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCoreMIDI.dylib
/Users/pascalheussner/Library/Application Support/McNeel/Rhinoceros/packages/8.0/maxwell_rhino/Maxwell for Rhino/libmwdotnet_native.dylib
/Applications/Maxwell Render 5/libmxcommon.dylib
/Applications/Maxwell Render 5/libcudart.10.1.dylib
/Applications/Maxwell Render 5/libdenoiser_altus_api.dylib
/Applications/Maxwell Render 5/extensions/wireframetexture.osx.mxx
/Applications/Maxwell Render 5/extensions/LensExtensions.osx.mxx
/Applications/Maxwell Render 5/extensions/MaxwellCloner.osx.mxx
/Applications/Maxwell Render 5/extensions/xritebrdf.osx.mxx
/Applications/Maxwell Render 5/libAxFDecoding.1.7.dylib
/Applications/Maxwell Render 5/extensions/MaxwellProcedurals.osx.mxx
/Applications/Maxwell Render 5/extensions/TiledTexture.osx.mxx
/Applications/Maxwell Render 5/extensions/MaxwellHair.osx.mxx
/Applications/Maxwell Render 5/extensions/MGrassH.osx.mxx
/Applications/Maxwell Render 5/extensions/MGrassP.osx.mxx
/Applications/Maxwell Render 5/extensions/MaxwellGrass.osx.mxx
/Applications/Maxwell Render 5/extensions/SubdivisionModifier.osx.mxx
/Applications/Maxwell Render 5/libmwglew.dylib
/Applications/Maxwell Render 5/libmwtbb.dylib
/Applications/Maxwell Render 5/extensions/MaxwellSea.osx.mxx
/Applications/Maxwell Render 5/extensions/Substance.osx.mxx
/Applications/Maxwell Render 5/libsubstance_linker.dylib
/Applications/Maxwell Render 5/libsubstance_sse2_blend.dylib
/Applications/Maxwell Render 5/extensions/MaxwellScatter.osx.mxx
/Applications/Maxwell Render 5/extensions/AssetReference.osx.mxx
/Applications/Maxwell Render 5/extensions/MWObjectAlembic.osx.mxx
/Applications/Maxwell Render 5/extensions/MaterialModifiers.osx.mxx
/Applications/Maxwell Render 5/extensions/TableBrdf.osx.mxx
/Applications/Maxwell Render 5/extensions/rfmeshes.osx.mxx
/Applications/Maxwell Render 5/extensions/MaxwellParticles.osx.mxx
/Applications/Maxwell Render 5/extensions/rwmeshes.osx.mxx
/Users/pascalheussner/Library/Application Support/McNeel/Rhinoceros/packages/8.0/maxwell_rhino/Maxwell for Rhino/libmxdotnet_native.dylib
/usr/lib/log/liblog_network.dylib

Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino
/Users/pascalheussner/Library/Application Support/McNeel/Rhinoceros/packages/8.0/maxwell_rhino/Maxwell for Rhino/maxwell_rhino_8.rhp “Maxwell for Rhino” 5.2.6.7

Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
/Applications/Rhino 8.app/Contents/Frameworks/RhMaterialEditor.framework “Renderer Development Kit” 8.11.24226.1002
/Applications/Rhino 8.app/Contents/Frameworks/RhCore.framework/Resources/ManagedPlugIns/Commands.rhp “Commands” 8.11.24226.6002
/Applications/Rhino 8.app/Contents/PlugIns/NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots” 8.11.24226.1002
/Applications/Rhino 8.app/Contents/Frameworks/RhCore.framework/Resources/ManagedPlugIns/RDK_EtoUI.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 8.11.24226.6002
/Applications/Rhino 8.app/Contents/Frameworks/RhCore.framework/Resources/ManagedPlugIns/MeshCommands.rhp “MeshCommands” 8.11.24226.6002
/Applications/Rhino 8.app/Contents/Frameworks/RhCore.framework/Resources/ManagedPlugIns/RhinoRenderCycles.rhp “Rhino Render” 8.11.24226.6002
/Applications/Rhino 8.app/Contents/Frameworks/RhCore.framework/Resources/ManagedPlugIns/RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 8.11.24226.6002
/Applications/Rhino 8.app/Contents/PlugIns/SectionTools.rhp “SectionTools” 8.11.24226.1002
/Applications/Rhino 8.app/Contents/PlugIns/Displacement.rhp “Displacement” 8.11.24226.1002
/Applications/Rhino 8.app/Contents/PlugIns/PanelingTools.rhp “PanelingTools” 8.11.24226.1002
/Applications/Rhino 8.app/Contents/Frameworks/RhCore.framework/Resources/ManagedPlugIns/RhinoDLR_Python.rhp “IronPython” 8.11.24226.6002
/Applications/Rhino 8.app/Contents/Frameworks/RhCore.framework/Resources/ManagedPlugIns/GrasshopperPlugin.rhp “Grasshopper” 8.11.24226.6002
/Applications/Rhino 8.app/Contents/Frameworks/RhCore.framework/Resources/ManagedPlugIns/RhinoCodePlugin.rhp “RhinoCodePlugin” 8.11.24226.6002

Hi Pascal, we do not support running in service releases, but regardless, I have just backed up my Rhino 8.10.24226.13002 and then updated to 8.11.24226.06002 to check, and I confirm Bella is not being loaded properly in this version. Its RUI file appears to be loaded correctly, but Rhino is not even attempting to load the plugin itself – this is why you are seeing the Bella main menu & toolbar but missing any actual functionality. Starting Rhino with -RhinoLog I do not see any attempt to load the plugin, nor any error reported.

8.10.24226.13002 is still loading the plugin fine here, both in native Apple Silicon mode, or running under Rosetta.

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Just to make sure it stays on the radar I’ve logged: RH-83330 Bella plug-in fails to load in 8SRC11

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RH-83330 is fixed in Rhino 8 Service Release 11

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thanks guys, I confirm the plugin loading again on mac with this build

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