Page 1 of 1
XSI Plugin Problem
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:57 pm
by 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
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 2:43 am
by 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.
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:58 am
by 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
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 1:00 pm
by 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
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 2:47 pm
by 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.