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stop posting images that absolutely say nothing......

start doing basic steps with sIBL_GUI started and a empty scene in Softimage:

- from sIBL_GUI send a HDR scene and corresponding template to Softimage, does this work? yes/no

- in Softimage check if all came in properly by looking at the sIBL setup in the explorerview and the pass in the rendertree. Is everything there? yes/no

- with an empty scene, does rendering work when drwaing a region? Do you see a background and empty plane? yes/no

- open the sIBL Control panel. Turn of background. Does it dissapear? yes/no

- If all of the above work, continue by adding a sphere/cube to the scene.
Also, use the architectural shader from now on. The why has already explained to you.

- With the material properly set up with reflection, you should see the environment on the sphere? yes/no

- in the sIBL controls, turn off reflection. Does it disappear on the sphere? yes/no

- Lastly, tun off the lighting. Does the scene go black? yes/no

Try this before posting any other questions. If something fails down the list, try to figure out first why.
If all fails, post proper screendumps of the Softimage interface (settings in PPGs, rendertrees, viewports etc.), so we can see what's going on.

So give us proper information, or theres nothing more to help.

Softimage 2013?

Hi, only just started using sIBL yesterday and was having some issues with the xsi loader script, figured I'd add a post incase any other new user comes across the same error, I googled for ages and couldnt seem to find anything .

Basically every time I tried to import from sIBL (either just running the standard import script or using tcpserver) I kept getting

# ERROR : Invalid procedure call or argument - [line 1131 in C:\\Users\\Spooky\\AppData\\Roaming\\HDRLabs\\sIBL_GUI\\4.0\\io\\loaderScripts\\
sIBL_XSI_Import.js]

which seemed to relate to the

if(Options.createBackground)
if(Options.createLighting)
if(Options.createReflection)

areas, e.g. xsi would point to the setexpression of creatbackground, and if I turned that off in sIBL it'd report an error with lighting etc. It still looked like the imports were working though untill today when I noticed the background at render time wasnt matching up with what I was seeing in the viewport.. and also couldnt find the ground shadow plane, which prompted me to investigate further .

Just fixed it now by replacing Softimage_MR_Standard with an older version I came across googling around, the one that was giving me issues has date modified 05/02/2012 .. the one I'm using now where everything is error free is 25/01/2012 .

The actual set expression lines look to be identicle in both versions to me, so not sure where in the code the issue would be .

So yeah, just thought I'd share my experience on the offchance anyone else comes across this error code, though given the release dates and my inability to find any mention of similar errors on any forum I could well be alone in this one hehe. It wouldnt be the first time I'v had issues with xsi that no-one else has come across, support guys used to love me

Loving sIBL btw, even more so now its importing fully ! , keep up the good work.

Edit: just curious, were there any major issues with the january version that I should be aware of ?

Where is the option to toggle y - is up, I can't remember.  I have shadows on for a light, I recall that is the option to make shadows work.

I got it working

seems like you're not running the server script (installed it), or somewhere the server cannot find sIBLGUI.

For all to work, you need the addon to 'see' sIBLGUI within Softimage menu, but you also need the server script to make the connection between the two.

see page 1 of this thread to see if you missed something.

Hope that helps,

rob

In what way does it conflict?

Did you uninstall the old server addon that was used for the older versions of Softimage? If not, that might explain the conflicts.

You only need the latest python server script for it to work with sIBLGUI.
Other than that I'm out of ideas for now..

rob