V-Ray standalone for Linux is not reading *.aur files properly.

[Fridayvfx]

Hey,
I quickly wanted to shoot a question into your direction regarding *.aur files and V-Ray standalone.

I'm trying to render a vrscene (Exported from 3ds Max and phoenix for 3ds Max) that contains a phoenix sim, the sim input points to a sequence of .aur files.
It works and renders fine (in standalone) on my windows workstation where I have phoenix installed. Now Phoenix is not installed on the linux rendernodes but V-Ray standalone is.

Now I'm assuming that I need to have PhoenixFD installed on those Linux boxes in order to have the necessary libraries that can read .aur files.
I've tried to install the trial version of Phoenix but I don't own anything Maya and Autodesk is not letting me download the trial for some reason.
(I get a Java null pointer exception when I try the download).

Now For a quick fix, I wanted to ask if it is possible to make it work in any other way?
I'm assuming that .vdb files will work work but they are not nearly as small and will not be able represent Foam, Mist, Splashes etc, right?

So I guess my question is, would it be possible to get a "library installer" for Linux that does not need Maya. And if that is too much of a hassle, would it be possible to somehow get the necessary libraries as a zip file and manually copy them in the plugins directory?

Thanks for any info on that issue.
-Robert

[Paul Oblomov]

Even from smartphone you can't download ?

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Hey,

You don't need anything from Autodesk Maya in order to install Phoenix. Just ignore the warning and continue. Phoenix also has ZIP installations from where you can just grab libvray_phoenix.so and paste it together with the other libvray_* plugins.

Hope this helps!

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

You can find the ZIP installs here: https://download.chaosgroup.com/?product=46&platform=48

[Fridayvfx]

Hey, thank you!
I only have the Windows/Max downloads for Phoenix Enabled since I've only bought it for this software package.
I Guess I do need the Should I contact support about enabling the Maya/Linux download? Or can you do it?

Thanks for the hint!
-Robert

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Hmm, if you enable a Phoenix trial for Maya, do you see the ZIP installs there?

[Fridayvfx]

Hmm, if you enable a Phoenix trial for Maya, do you see the ZIP installs there?

Well my trial for phoenix went out prior to buying it. Yet I've created a new account with a new Email, then registered for the trial and that worked! Thank you.
I've contacted the support about enabling the download for my regular account though because making a new account in order to update anything in the future seems kind of redundant.

Thank you for your help though!

-Robert

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Ah, if it has already expired, Support would be the way to go.

Cheers!