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Forest Pack => Forest Pro (*) => Topic started by: Shawn Olson on November 27, 2021, 09:18:29 PM

Title: Loading Presets causes MAXScript error and Geometry don't connect to Forest
Post by: Shawn Olson on November 27, 2021, 09:18:29 PM

Whenever I try to load the Stone Presets from FP, I get a MAXScript error:

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Warning : Can't find object "" in the source scene

After this warning, Forest gets populated with a bunch of Geometry entries but none of the imported geometry gets tied to those entries... and the materials are not loaded onto the geometry.

I tried going into the presets to check for bad scripts or if one of the XML/json files pointed to an object that doesn't exist, but I could not find anything that stuck out. This issue

Title: Re: Loading Presets causes MAXScript error and Geometry don't connect to Forest
Post by: Shawn Olson on November 27, 2021, 09:24:05 PM

As a hint, I opened the preset source Max file ( _FP_Rocks_Presets ) and removed the first Empty entry, and it stopped crashing. I suspect the MAXScript just needs to check for an entry with no object assigned.

Title: Re: Loading Presets causes MAXScript error and Geometry don't connect to Forest
Post by: Paul Roberts on November 29, 2021, 09:49:13 AM

Thanks for reporting this Shawn, I'll look into it. An empty entry is often used to create empty clusters in a distribution so it's not necessarily an error for them to be in the preset. If the library isn't able to open them though - then that's something we'll need to look into!

Title: Re: Loading Presets causes MAXScript error and Geometry don't connect to Forest
Post by: Paul Roberts on November 29, 2021, 01:07:01 PM

Confirmed! Out development team are looking into it. Thanks again for letting us know.