OSX Mavericks - vray renders the scene, but image won't show up in blender

[Aneurisma]

Hey,

I've got the latest vray 2.4 build for maya 2014 (standalone of course) and I can see that blender renders the image fine (it's present in the tem directory and it also writes the file correctly if I set it up). But it won't show in Blender's image editor. No VFB either, wether I use the 32 or the 64 bit build of blender from your repository. I'm currelty usign blender version 2.68.5 and here's my log:

V-Ray/Blender: Writing scene...
V-Ray/Blender: Exporting meshes...
V-Ray/Blender: Exporting meshes done [00:00.00]
V-Ray/Blender: Writing frame 1...
V-Ray/Blender: Writing frame 1... done [0.00]
V-Ray/Blender: Writing scene... done [0.01]
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:27] Reading configuration from "/Applications/Autodesk/maya2014/vray/bin//vrayconfig.xml"
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:27] ===============================================
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:27] V-Ray Standalone, version 2.40.01 for x64
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:27] Copyright (C) 2000-2010 Chaos Group Ltd. All rights reserved.
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:27] Use -credits option for additional third-party copyright notices.
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:27]
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:27] Build from Nov 4 2013, 17:19:17
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:27] Compiled with GCC-compatible compiler, version 4.2
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:27] Operating system is Mac OS X
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:27]
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:27] V-Ray core version is 2.00.02
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:27] ===============================================
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:27]
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:27] Loading plugins from "/Applications/Autodesk/maya2014/vray/vrayplugins/libvray_*.so"
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] 104 plugin(s) loaded successfully
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] Finished loading plugins.
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] Reading scene file "/var/folders/gt/zhv10crs09d5l5_26s8_387r0000gn/T/vrayblender_rafa/scene_scene.vrscene"
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] /var/folders/gt/zhv10crs09d5l5_26s8_387r0000gn/T/vrayblender_rafa/scene_scene.vrscene: done [ 0h 0m 0.0s]
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] scene_lights.vrscene: done [ 0h 0m 0.0s]
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] scene_materials.vrscene: done [ 0h 0m 0.0s]
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] scene_environment.vrscene: done [ 0h 0m 0.0s]
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] scene_geometry_00.vrscene: done [ 0h 0m 0.0s]
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] scene_geometry_01.vrscene: done [ 0h 0m 0.0s]
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] scene_geometry_02.vrscene: done [ 0h 0m 0.0s]
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] scene_geometry_03.vrscene: done [ 0h 0m 0.0s]
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] scene_nodes.vrscene: done [ 0h 0m 0.0s]
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] scene_textures.vrscene: done [ 0h 0m 0.0s]
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] scene_camera.vrscene: done [ 0h 0m 0.0s]
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] Scene file parsed successfully in 0.0 s.
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] warning: Unknown property "progressive_showMask" in object "SettingsImageSampler"
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] warning: Unknown property "progressive_bundleSize" in object "SettingsImageSampler"
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] warning: Unknown property "progressive_maxTime" in object "SettingsImageSampler"
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] warning: Unknown property "progressive_threshold" in object "SettingsImageSampler"
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] warning: Unknown property "progressive_maxSubdivs" in object "SettingsImageSampler"
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] warning: Unknown property "progressive_minSubdivs" in object "SettingsImageSampler"
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] Scene created successfully.
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] Objects in scene: 28
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] Starting render sequence.
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] Preparing renderer...
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] Preparing scene for rendering...: done [ 0h 0m 0.0s]
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] ========================
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] Starting frame 0.
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] Preparing scene for frame...: done [ 0h 0m 0.0s]
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] Compiling geometry...: done [ 0h 0m 0.0s]
Building static raycast accelerator...: 0.00% [ 0h 0m 0.6s] [ 0h 0m 0.0s es[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] Building static raycast accelerator...: done [ 0h 0m 0.0s]
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] SDTree statistics:
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] Total number of faces stored: 12
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] Max tree depth: 6
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] Average tree depth: 4.22222
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] Number of tree nodes: 21
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] Number of tree faces: 42
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] Number of tree leafs: 9
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] Average faces/leaf: 4.66667
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:28] Memory usage: 1.68 MB
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:29] Rendering image...: done [ 0h 0m 1.1s]
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:29] Number of raycasts: 659035
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:29] Camera rays: 588203
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:29] Shadow rays: 70832
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:29] GI rays: 0
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:29] Reflection rays: 0
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:29] Refraction rays: 0
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:29] Unshaded rays: 0
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:29] Number of intersectable primitives: 12
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:29] SD triangles: 12
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:29] MB triangles: 0
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:29] Static primitives: 0
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:29] Moving primitives: 0
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:29] Infinite primitives: 0
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:29] Frame took 1.08 s.
[2013/Nov/25|14:24:29] Closing log - 0 error(s), 6 warning(s).

Thanks a lot for looking into this.

Cheers

[Aneurisma]

sorry for double post... browser weirdness going on!

[bdancer]

V-Ray Standalone 64bit doesn't have V-Ray Frame Buffer on OS X (only 32bit version). You could try using feature "Render Feedback" under Exporter panel - this will load image into Blender while rendering, but it still experimental. Always use Output panel to save the final image.

[Aneurisma]

What is the issue with the framebuffer in OSX? Is it a work in progress at Chaos or an integration with blender kind of issue? What are the appropriate channel to ask about this issue?
Also I noticed that the custom builds for windows are way more up to date than the ones for mac... are the source files available if I was interested in learning to build it myself? I might never know enough to do it, but I'd like to give it a shot...

Thanks!

[bdancer]

Framebuffer issue on 64 bit OS X is still a work in progress related to some third party libraries, hope to have some results very soon. Anyway I've checked a yesterdays nighlty build for x86 and VFB work fine there.

Custom builds for mac are currently broken due to some blender libs issues and I believe BF guys will fix it very soon (have some IRC session with them yesterday). Anyway there is a possibility to build it yourself.
Check this tool - https://github.com/bdancer/vb25-patch/wiki/autobuild

You will need to install XCode with Command Line Tools, git > 1.8.4 and python > 2.7.
Then basically you will need several command:

mkdir ~/build
cd ~/build
git clone git://github.com/bdancer/vb25-patch.git
python vb25-patch/build.py

Then you'll have your build under "install" subdirectory.

Anyway first I have to check if BF guys fixed the build linkage (or check why this linkage fails more deeply).

[Aneurisma]

Thanks a lot, man!!!
This thread put a smile in my face today!

Cheers