When I try to render, I get an error “Unable to load render plug-in, render command not available.” I’m running Windows 8.1, Rhino 5 SR10. The problem only occurs in 64-bit Rhino, the 32-bit version works fine. Have tried safe mode, reinstalling Rhino, no luck. Any ideas?
Try right-clicking on the Rhino icon and choose Run As Administrator - does that do anything different?
-Pascal
No change unfortunately.
Hi Parker - in Options > Plug-ins, do you see either of these entries-
Enabled check on or off?
thanks,
-Pascal
Sure enough, Rhino Render was somehow unchecked. Thanks pascal!
Hello,
I have the same problem as parkerrueve. For a moment, the “run as admin” solution worked, but now it repeats that the plugin was unable to load. I also checked the options -> plugins. I’ve got always the rhino render check off, but nothing changes if I turn it on. Whe I want to load the plugin, a new window appears saying that “the rhino render was built with an old version of RDK. Please update the plugin and restart rhino.”
Any ideas how to solve it?
Thanks!
@calenthio same issue with her. can anybody help us ? I keep trying every option like run as admin and the checking of the rhino render but it always state old version.
Hi Sarah - so, you check in Options > Plug-ins, and Rhino Render is checked as ‘Enabled’ correct? What version/Service release of Rhino are you running and on what version of Windows?
thanks,
-Pascal
Hi Pascal
Yeop it is enabled but they would say that “the rhino render was built with an old version of RDK. Please update the plugin and restart rhino.” I am using Rhino 5 on Windows 10 which is the latest window. My friends do not have the issue that I am having.
Hi,
Im having the same problem so was wondering if you have found a solution?
I am also looking for answers. I can’t even get RhinoRender to show up in the list of installed plug-ins, and appear to be missing the RendererDevelopmentKit as well. We’re using the version of Rhino5 released May 23, 2016, on Windows 10.
Go into Options > Plug-ins and set the list filter to “All plug-ins”.
Scroll down and find the Render Development Kit and Rhino Render:
Make sure the Enabled check is filled in for both.
If one or both are not Loaded, right-mouse click on the RDK and choose Load plug-in.
Then do the same for Rhino Render.
Now does it work?
Unfortunately, those two items are not listed at all in the list of plugins. If I double-click the RhinoRender.rhp for Rhino 64-bit, I get a Rhino 5 Plugin-Developer run time debugging window with the following error message:
“Plug-in commands must pass a pointer to their parent plug-in. Your command class structure must look like:
MyPluginCommand:MyPluginCommand() : CRhinoCommand( false, false, ::Plugin() )”
I am searching for our old installer for rh50_5.12, but have been unsuccessful in locating it on any number of backups and external drives.
Are you sure you plug-in list filter is set for “All Plug-ins”?
The RDK must be loaded before the Rhino render will load.
I tried to make all of that clear in my message.
Very odd.
The only thing I can guess is somehow the plug-in registration on that system is buggered.
Try this:
Close Rhino
Run REGEDIT
Browse to \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\McNeel\Rhinoceros\5.0\Plug-ins
Delete the Plug-ins folder and the folders under it
Close REGEDIT
Start Rhino
The missing registry keys should be recreated and the default plug-ins reregistered so they will load and run.
See if that works
The structure is a little different on my machine(s), but deleting the Plug-ins key and all of its sub-keys didn’t produce any results:
\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\McNeel\Rhinoceros\5.0x64\Global Options\Plug-ins
The 32-bit version still works fine, but the 64-bit version still can’t load the default render plug-in. The render development kit and Rhino Render plugin are listed as expected in the 32-bit version, and are not found in the 64-bit version (which is the one we need to use).
double-weird…
Okay, a reinstall worked to get the render plug-in working in Rhino 5 64-bit. Unfortunately, I have a lot of 3rd party plugins that our instructors have insisted upon having installed by default. Now I get to check to see if any of them break Rhino Render…
Those are different plug-ins in a different area of the registry.
Perhaps a better option is to fully uninstall all 4 parts of Rhino V5 in the Control Panel applet, then manually clean out the registry.
Here are the details:
http://wiki.mcneel.com/rhino/5/uninstall
Then reinstall Rhino using the V5 SR13 full installer.
Yep, that’s what I did to get it working again. I have other plug-ins to install that may have caused the problem… I’m sorting through now.