Maya 2018 : problem with the loading of custom shader

[Anonymous]

Hi!

As you may understand, we are switching to Maya2018.

We have an issue with our custom shader which is basically a directX shader as the one in the devkit.

So here is the error we have :

[mel] sourcing folder: .../tools/art_pipeline/maya/mel/core/OurCustomEngineShader
// Error: file: C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2018/scripts/others/getPluginResource.mel line 66: Plug-in resource lookup failed, resource ("OurCustomEngineShader","kReloadTool") is not registered
 //
>/!\      [mel]    error while sourcing: .../tools/art_pipeline/maya/mel/core/OurCustomEngineShader/ourCustomEngineShader_initUI.mel

I manage to fix it by loading the c++ shader first before sourcing the mel but it creates other errors.

And them putting the MEL before the c++ works perfectly.

What is actual way to load custom shaders?

Thanks 

[cheng_xi_li · Accepted solution]

Hi,

It looks like resource strings haven't been loaded before they are accessed.

I think this i18n related article might be helpful.

Yours,

Li

[Anonymous]

Thanks a lot Li!