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JEFF SICKLES asked ·

Bifrost not rendering

I have a simple bifrost simulation that has a liquid and some foam. The liquid renders fine after exporting the mesh to alembic... the foam however doesn't render as points... or spheres... or volumes. The error I get seems to indicate that mtoa is the culprit rather than some settings problem. Here is the error I get...

// Error: Bifrost to Arnold package not installed in /Applications/Autodesk/bifrost/1.5.0/arnold-5.0.0.0/lib // // Error: [mtoa.translator] bifrostTranslator: Arnold node type bifrost_polymesh does not exist. // // Error: Bifrost to Arnold package not installed in /Applications/Autodesk/bifrost/1.5.0/arnold-5.0.0.0/lib // // Error: [mtoa.translator] bifrostTranslator: Arnold node type bifrost_points does not exist. //

Anyone have an issue like this? Is this perhaps a Maya Env/Path problem?

Maya 2018/Arnold 5

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Stephen Blair answered ·

Do you have Maya 2018 Update 1? That installs the Bifrost to Arnold package, which you are missing.

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JEFF SICKLES answered ·

Boom - that did it. Thanks Stephen!

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Juanjo Bernabeu answered ·

How can I render without Update 1.

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Ahmed Elmorsy answered ·

MtoA 3.3.0.1 not render bifrost

i'm using maya 2018.1

and Mtoa 3.2.0 render normally

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Please do not answer a three-year old question with another question.
Please ask a new question and please supply an Arnold (verbosity level = Info)

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