XSI Plugin Problem

[neubsi]

Hi Folks,

hope you can help me out here, i installed the ogre plugin 1.2.0 for xsi 5.0, but it doesn´t load.
In the plugin-manager from xsi, the OgreXSIExporter.dll is marked with a red triangle and tells me a library is not found...



tried the install package from the website, even compiled it on my own... but no use...

thx for your help

greetz
neubsi

[Slicky]

I'll take a stab here.

You need to make sure that you have the ogre supporting dll's in the binary directory i think it was. So in summary you need more than just that one dll.

[neubsi]

Hi thx for your support;)

if you mean the ilu.dll, ilut.dll, zlib1.dll and the ogremain.dll then i have copied them into the right directory... but still no working export:(

what surprises me is, that the install package didn´t work, never got any problems with xsi plugins... very strange

i couldn´t find any other dependencies other than the included dlls, maybe i´m missing something...

the output of xsi is very limited in this matter, so i can´t even tell what the problem really is... damn...

jfi, i use xsi 5.01

greetz
neubsi

[neubsi]

Yea, found the problem, the dlls need to be in the factory bin directory from xsi, not in the addon bin directory...

works now!

greetz
neubsi

[sinbad]

You probably pointed the installer at the wrong folder - it needed to be the root folder of XSI, not your personal preferences folder.

Unfortunately XSI doesn't have a way to detect the install directory from an .MSI installer because of a poor choice of registry path that .MSI can't locate - basically the registry key that tells you where XSI is installed is located underneath a key which is itself dependent on the install path! MSI can't pattern-match on registry paths so it's impossible to auto-set it. Therefore the user has to pick the right install directory.