Upgrade to Arnold 5? No Cryptomatte?

[Anonymous]

I'm debating whether I should upgrade to Arnold 5 in Maya. I see there is no longer support for the alShaders. Cryptomatte is amazing and losing this is a deal breaker for me.

What are the material id / object id workflows in Arnold 5? I haven't been able to find any info convincing enough to motivate me to upgrade. Thoughts?

[zenop · Accepted solution]

There's a cryptomatte release for Arnold 5.

https://support.solidangle.com/display/A5AFMUG/Cryptomatte

[Anonymous]

Thanks. I'm just trying to install now but with difficulty. I'm working in Maya 2017.

The download link you provided has an empty INSTALL.txt. So I followed along on the solid angle page. I copied the .dll and .mtd to:

C:\solidangle\mtoadeploy\2017\shaders\

But they aren't being recognized in Maya. Is there something I'm missing?

[zenop]

What is the Arnold log telling you? And the maya script editor? It's definitely in the right place so something else must be wrong, and usually arnold is pretty good at telling you!

[Stephen.Blair]

You must have Arnold 5.0.1 or later (MtoA 2.0.1 or later).
Open a command prompt and run these commands:

cd C:\solidangle\mtoadeploy\2017
bin\kick -nodes -l shaders

Do you see any errors? Are the cryptomatte nodes listed?

[Anonymous]

import arnold
// Successfully imported python module 'arnold'
import mtoa
// Successfully imported python module 'mtoa'
...
// Warning: file: C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2017/scripts/startup/autoLoadPlugin.mel line 32: Loading plug-in "mtoa" has resulted in changes to the scene that may need to be saved. //

Nothing super out of the ordinary? I'm expecting to see cryptomatte in the aov browser, but no luck.

[Anonymous]

Where is the Arnold log?

[Stephen.Blair]

Arnold log

[Stephen.Blair]

in the Maya output window
in the Render Settings, increase the verbosity level (Diagnostics tab)

[Anonymous]

Careful with that log

[Anonymous]

Got it working 🙂

[Anonymous]

Hey David,

I'm stuck with the same problem, which you managed to solve.

I've put corresponding files to:

C:\solidangle\mtoadeploy\2017\shaders\

C:\solidangle\mtoadeploy\2017\scripts\mtoa\ui\ae

And still can't see those appear in my add AOV tab in render settings.

By any chance do you remember solution ?

Thanks in advance.

[Stephen.Blair]

What version of MtoA? The instructions in the docs are all you need to do if you have MtoA 2.0.1 or later

[Anonymous]

I'm running MtoA 2.0.1 on Maya2017.
Just to be clear:
I've put - my cryptomatte.lib and cryptomatte.mtd in:
C:\solidangle\mtoadeploy\2017\shaders

and

cryptomatteTemplate.pc/.pyc in:
C:\solidangle\mtoadeploy\2017\scripts\mtoa\ui\ae

[Anonymous]

My issue was that I was not using MtoA 2.0.1. So I upgraded and copied cryptomatte.dll, .lib and .mtd to:

C:\solidangle\mtoadeploy\2017\shaders

That's it! You should see cryptomatte in the Render Settings AOV Browser

[Anonymous]

So after further investigation I checked Arnold log and thats what I'm getting:

"unable to load dynamic library C:/solidangle/mtoadeploy/2017/shaders\cryptomatte.dll: The specified procedure could not be found. "

@Stephen Blair

[Anonymous]

Hi

Create "Cryptomatte" folder or any name you want in C:\> driver or other drive, and add theses variables to your OS
ARNOLD_PLUGIN_PATH=C:\Cryptomatte\bin
MAYA_CUSTOM_TEMPLATE_PATH= C:\Cryptomatte\aexml
MTOA_TEMPLATE_PATH=C:\Cryptomatte\ae

[Stephen.Blair]

Cryptomatte has two dependencies:

• Arnold 5.0.1 or later
• Visual Studio 2010 redistributable
  

[Anonymous]

@Stephen Blair

I'm really starting to giving up on this, since I've tried nearly everything I've found on web.

I'm running Arnold 5.0.0.2 to be clear

I got VS2010R installed.

And thats it, I tried manually uninstlling any other VS redistributables which ended up messing up my mtoa installation, aswell as shutting down antivirs and whatnot.

And still getting the same error:

unable to load dynamic library " C:/solidangle/mtoadeploy/2017/shaders\cryptomatte.dll: The specified procedure could not be found. "

Does it have something to do with last slash being reversed?

[Stephen.Blair]

5.0.0.2 is the problem.

You need Arnold 5.0.1 or later. Download MtoA 2.0.1 or later