topic Re: Arnold Procedural loads but doesnt show or render in Arnold for 3ds Max Forum

Arnold Procedural loads but doesnt show or render

RenderQ — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 13:30:03 GMT

Hi, when I load procedural file it shows in modifier panel but is empty in the viewport. Tried this with my own .ass as well as Arnold tutorial .ass file (soldier model). Using latest max24 and up to date MaxToA.

Re: Arnold Procedural loads but doesnt show or render

CiroCardoso3v — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 06:52:19 GMT

The Display Mode is set to Bounding Box. What does it happen when you change to display geometry?

Re: Arnold Procedural loads but doesnt show or render

lee_griggs — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 08:41:20 GMT

Yes, change the display mode as Ciro says. I have had something similar where it is so big that my camera is inside it or that it is off to the side of the camera view.

Are you using the latest plugin?

Re: Arnold Procedural loads but doesnt show or render

RenderQ — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 08:36:07 GMT

I am on the latest update, I exported teapot as an .ass file and loaded using procedural, set display as shape and still nothing. file is stored on my desktop

Re: Arnold Procedural loads but doesnt show or render

CiroCardoso — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 06:18:31 GMT

Can you provide de file, for a quick test on my side?

Re: Arnold Procedural loads but doesnt show or render

RenderQ — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 09:33:00 GMT

try anything, export teapot like me, I even tried with a tutorial scene from arnold docs
https://areadownloads.autodesk.com/wdm/arnold/maxtoa/Procedurals-soldiers.zip

Re: Arnold Procedural loads but doesnt show or render

wernienst — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 15:25:55 GMT

Same problem here. See this:

(the soldier_stand.ass file from the Arnold Tutorials)

And finally I've found the reason: It's an old acquaintance: Windows Non-US Regional Settings!!

If you set it to English (US), it works fine!

I've sent a notice to Autodesk Feedback.

Re: Arnold Procedural loads but doesnt show or render

wernienst — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 15:28:43 GMT

Even more strange: an .ass file I created 2 years ago works fine!

Re: Arnold Procedural loads but doesnt show or render

CiroCardoso3v — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 05:46:18 GMT

That is weird.

On my side it seems to be working properly

Re: Arnold Procedural loads but doesnt show or render

wernienst — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 08:53:00 GMT

Well, it's definitely a decimal character, not a language setting thing. If I set Regional to German (Switzerland), it works, if to German (Germany), it does not!

Re: Arnold Procedural loads but doesnt show or render

CiroCardoso3v — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 05:53:41 GMT

That is weird. I am going to report this to the Devs.

Re: Arnold Procedural loads but doesnt show or render

RenderQ — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 18:02:45 GMT

Thank you guys for looking into it

Re: Arnold Procedural loads but doesnt show or render

MiquelRamos — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 11:04:52 GMT

EDIT: Solution found, was changing the units system in Windows to English (US).

Re: Arnold Procedural loads but doesnt show or render

RenderQ — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 06:43:18 GMT

Thanks guys, I tried changing decimal character in windows from "," to "." and it now loads. I hope devs will catch this at some point.