Hi,
I'm using the 2017 Maya Studentversion on Arch Linux and tried to do an ocean simulation with bifröst. Unfortunally I can't find either a Boss nor a Bifrost menue. I looked at thethe bifrost/plug-ins section in the Plug-In Manager: Everything except "bifrostshellnode.so". Sadly I didn't suceed to load this Plug-In, I found it in the filemanage, but when I clicked on "load" the check could not be set.
Maybe someone has an idea why the menu isn't shwon....
Thank you very much in advance for your help!
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Hi @Anonymous and welcome to the community!
You can try selecting load shelf, and then manually loading the bifrost/boss shelves.
Let me know if this solves your issue!
All the best,
Sean Heasley
Technical Support Specialist
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Thank you for your answer.
I loaded the "shelf_Bifrost.mel" shelf from /usr/autodesk/maya2017/plug-ins/bifrost/scripts folder and a "Bifrost" Menue appearedin the lower menu bar. 🙂
But I'm still missing the Boss menu and also the bifrost menu in the upper menu bar. For the boss menu I tried a few shelfes but I doesn't get the right one. Is anyone knowing exactly which shelf I have to load? I could try each one in the folder but this might be a little stressful because of there are about 1044 files in the folder... o.O
Because of I always get error messages like "Cannot find procedure ..." when loading only a few of this 1044 shell scribts I tried again to load the missing .os files via the plug-In menager. This time I startet maya from console as administator to ensure that there is no authorization problem. I got the following error messages:
Is there any setup for loading all .mel files together? I tried the setup_bash in the folder but this changed nothing...
Hmm. Try deleting your settings/preferences and then following the shelf step again I posted above.
If this still doesn't work you may want to do a full uninstall of Maya by deleting all Autodesk/Maya folders after uninstalling and then reinstall again.
All the best,
Sean Heasley
Technical Support Specialist
Autodesk Here to Help | My Screencasts | Autodesk Virtual Agent | How To Reset User Settings | Installation and Licensing Forum | Maya Certified Hardware |
After some tries the solution was very simple:
I found the missing "libtinfo" library in the pacauer repos and installed it. After that I linked the library with maya:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libtinfo.so.6 /usr/autodesk/maya2017/lib/libtinfo.so.5
After this step I load the bifrost stuff from the plug-In Manager and everything worked 🙂
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