topic Re: Can't Get Redshift plug-in to work on Maya 2024 in Maya Forum

Can't Get Redshift plug-in to work on Maya 2024

vdickra153 — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 22:51:13 GMT

Redshift works on C4D on my Mac Studio, but for some reason it does not work for Maya 2024

Re: Can't Get Redshift plug-in to work on Maya 2024

damaggio — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 23:10:33 GMT

load it in the plug in manager.

Re: Can't Get Redshift plug-in to work on Maya 2024

warnold2 — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 23:50:52 GMT

more info would be helpful to understand what doesn't work.

does the plugin load, are there any messages, in either the script editor or if one launches Maya from the terminal is there any output to the Terminal window

from a Terminal Window, launch Maya as:

/Applications/Autodesk/maya2024/Maya.app/Contents/MacOS/Maya

Re: Can't Get Redshift plug-in to work on Maya 2024

vdickra153 — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 13:19:03 GMT

Hi Wayne,

Thanks for the reply

I launched Maya from the terminal and did not notice any Redshift loading errors.

However, from Maya's script editor: // Warning: file: /Applications/Autodesk/maya2024/Maya.app/Contents/scripts/others/supportRenderers.mel line 76: The renderer "redshift" used by this scene, is not currently available. The "arnold" renderer will be used instead. To prevent this message from being displayed in the future, set the environment variable: MAYA_NO_WARNING_FOR_MISSING_DEFAULT_RENDERER=1

I have installed Redshift and did exactly as per their (Maxon's tech support) spec.

Did the following:-

Applications/Autodesk/Maya2024/Maya/Contents/Modules/redshift4maya.mod

Copy redshiftRenderer.xml to Maya's rendererDesc directory (required for Maya command-line rendering)

Copy the file /Applications/redshift/redshift4maya/common/rendererDesc/redshiftRenderer.xml to /Applications/Autodesk/<MAYAVERSION>/Maya.app/Contents/bin/rendererDesc/

Still won't work and get the "Maya's script editor: // Warning", as shown above

Re: Can't Get Redshift plug-in to work on Maya 2024

vdickra153 — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 17:11:07 GMT

Hi Sgt_Rock,
Redshift does not show up in Plug-ins window.
I tried browsing to the Redshift folder, and it shows up, check mark, but when you restart Maya, its not there anymore.
I tried adding it to the Plug-ins folder (redshift4maya.bundle), then in Plug-ins window Redshift shows up, but cant checkmark it.

Re: Can't Get Redshift plug-in to work on Maya 2024

warnold2 — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 18:44:49 GMT

is Redshift plugin a Universal Binary 2 (Intt64+arm64) binary ?

from terminal can run the "file" command to see what the architectures are included in the file.

ie: file redshitft4maya.bundle/Contents/MacOS/redshift4maya

are you running Maya as native arm64 or running under Rosetta2

Re: Can't Get Redshift plug-in to work on Maya 2024

vdickra153 — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 12:53:14 GMT

I don't see why I have to go through all this checking as neither Maya or Redshift were "custom" installed, nor did I make any alterations to where they downloaded, etc, etc. They are standard apps and all you do is install and use. That's how I have used all my apps on an Apple.

Thanks for all the suggestions/recommendations

I guess I will have to delete Maya and Redshift and start again.
One thing I forgot to mention that Maya 2023 worked with Redshift.

Re: Can't Get Redshift plug-in to work on Maya 2024

warnold2 — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 15:32:35 GMT

Maya 2023 was Intel only build running under Rosetta2 on an Apple Silicon Mac based machine. if your build of redShift for Maya 2024 is Intel only then one would need to run Maya 2024 as Intel in order for the plugin to load. which was why I suggested to check what architecture your plugin was and if there is an updated release. I don't have redShift available to check

to run Maya as intel process on Apple Silicon

arch -arch x86_64 /Applications/Autodesk/maya2024/Maya.app/Contents/MacOS/Maya

in reply above you did change "<MAYAVERSION>" to the actual maya2024 path

Re: Can't Get Redshift plug-in to work on Maya 2024

warnold2 — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 02:03:03 GMT

what version of Redshift are you using. from https://help.maxon.net/r3d/maya/en-us/#html/Release+Notes+3.5.html?TocPath=_____2

there was on updated versionb

3.5.19 (2023.09)

Release Notes

[Houdini] Added support for Houdini 19.5.716 and dropped support for 19.5.605
[Hydra] Added support for Solaris 19.5.716 and dropped support for 19.5.605
[All] Fixed corruption and crash bugs that could occur when rendering scenes with photons, IPC and SSS

3.5.18 (2023.09)

Release Notes

[Maya] Fixed support for Maya 2024/macOS on Apple Silicon hardware

Re: Can't Get Redshift plug-in to work on Maya 2024

vdickra153 — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 10:44:44 GMT

3.5.19

Re: Can't Get Redshift plug-in to work on Maya 2024

Stephen.Blair — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 19:46:39 GMT

@vdickra153 wrote:
Redshift does not show up in Plug-ins window.

Then Maya is not finding the module file.