Kick can't find Maya Fluids data at render

daniel.j.rutter — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 22:23:42 GMT

Hi All, Trying to render out a cached fluid effect. It shows up in Arnold render view but when I send the .ass frames to Kick to render it gives the error below, that it can't find MayaFluids or Fluid data. Anyone know how to tell Kick where to find the fluid info? Screenshot shows render view but it renders the fluid volume as magenta.

00:00:00 89MB | log started Wed Mar 26 14:19:15 2025
00:00:00 89MB | Arnold 7.2.5.3 [b573dc8c] windows x86_64 clang-15.0.7 oiio-2.4.1 osl-1.13.0 vdb-7.1.1 adlsdk-7.4.2.47 clmhub-3.1.1.43 rlm-14.2.5 optix-8.0.0 2024/03/13 15:09:16
00:00:00 89MB | running on ARDWL0123024005, pid=15192
00:00:00 89MB | 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4216 CPU @ 2.10GHz (32 cores, 64 logical) with 130775MB
00:00:00 102MB | NVIDIA driver version 572.60
00:00:00 102MB | GPU 0: NVIDIA RTX A4000 @ 1560MHz (compute 8.6) with 16375MB (3798MB available) (NVLink:0)
00:00:00 102MB | Windows 10 (version 10.0, build 19045)
00:00:00 102MB | soft limit for open files is set at 2048
00:00:00 102MB |
00:00:00 113MB | [color_manager_ocio] default ocio.config found in C:\Arnold-7.2.5.3-windows\bin\../ocio/configs/arnold/config.ocio
00:00:00 113MB | loading plugins from C:\Arnold-7.2.5.3-windows\bin\..\plugins ...
00:00:00 113MB | alembic_proc.dll: alembic uses Arnold 7.2.5.3
00:00:00 113MB | cryptomatte.dll: cryptomatte uses Arnold 7.2.5.3
00:00:00 113MB | cryptomatte.dll: cryptomatte_filter uses Arnold 7.2.5.3
00:00:00 113MB | cryptomatte.dll: cryptomatte_manifest_driver uses Arnold 7.2.5.3
00:00:00 121MB | usd_proc.dll: usd uses Arnold 7.2.5.3
00:00:00 121MB | loaded 5 plugins from 3 lib(s) in 0:00.09
00:00:00 122MB | [color_manager_ocio] default ocio.config found in C:\Arnold-7.2.5.3-windows\bin\../ocio/configs/arnold/config.ocio
00:00:00 126MB | [kick] command: C:\Arnold-7.2.5.3-windows\bin\kick.exe -i C:\Users\drutter\Desktop\01_viper_drill\scene_0023.ass -o C:\Users\drutter\Documents\maya\projects\VIPER\images\Lander\Exhaust.0023.exr -dw -dp -v 4
00:00:00 126MB | loading plugins from . ...
00:00:00 126MB | no plugins loaded
00:00:00 133MB | [ass] loading C:\Users\drutter\Desktop\01_viper_drill\scene_0023.ass ...
00:00:00 134MB ERROR | [ass] line 140: node "MayaFluid" is not installed
00:00:00 134MB ERROR | [ass] line 171: node "MayaFluidData" is not installed

Re: Kick can't find Maya Fluids data at render

daniel.j.rutter — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 18:56:29 GMT

Wanted to add that I updated MtoA to 5.4.8 and also include additional error message that Kick could resolve references to the Fluid data.

Re: Kick can't find Maya Fluids data at render

daniel.j.rutter — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 21:25:01 GMT

I updated to MtoA 5.5.0 and Arnold 7.3.7.0 and updated Maya to 2025 and that solved the issue.

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