Hi all,

I have the same problem - brand new installation of 3dsmax 2014, everything smooth, then I install a dig-o-matic plugin and some ephere system can not find its dll any more. Dig-o-matic points at ephere - so does the 3dsmax error!! See below. Unlike Ephere's response above, however, the missing dll is neither on the installation media, nor on in the autodesk folder. Here is the 3dsmax startup error dump:

System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'Ephere.Utilities.Evaluator' threw an exception. ---> System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'file:///C:\TMP\12i2xy45.dll' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

   at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly._nLoad(AssemblyName fileName, String codeBase, Evidence assemblySecurity, RuntimeAssembly locationHint, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, IntPtr pPrivHostBinder, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean forIntrospection, Boolean suppressSecurityChecks)

   at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly.InternalLoadAssemblyName(AssemblyName assemblyRef, Evidence assemblySecurity, RuntimeAssembly reqAssembly, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, IntPtr pPrivHostBinder, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean forIntrospection, Boolean suppressSecurityChecks)

   at System.Reflection.Assembly.Load(AssemblyName assemblyRef, Evidence assemblySecurity)

   at System.CodeDom.Compiler.CompilerResults.get_CompiledAssembly()

   at Ephere.Utilities.Evaluator..cctor()

   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

   at Ephere.Utilities.Evaluator.EvalToDouble(String statement)

   at Ephere.Gui.NodeViews.Skin.Area.GetLeftValue(Dictionary`2 parameterValues)

   at Ephere.Gui.NodeViews.NodeView.Node.LayoutNodes()

   at Ephere.Gui.NodeViews.Schematic.ValueNode.LayoutNodes()

   at Ephere.Gui.NodeViews.Schematic.InternalInputsNode.LayoutNodes()

   at Ephere.Gui.NodeViews.Skin.SetBoilerPlateSchematicView(Schematic view)

   at Ephere.Gui.NodeViews.Skin.get_Default()

Would be great if someone at Ephere would take a serious look at their runtime assembly sequence? Many thanks

Hans

Hi Marcel,

Thanks for taking an interest

The crash happens no matter whether you start 3dsmax or try to open somesthing opening it - 3ds max will not start, period.

By the way, it runs through its entire initialization sequence, but then crashes at the end. Not been able to trap anything in the c:\tmp folder during this process.

I found two installation localities of the ephere.utilities.dll, one in 3dsmax, one in edsmas/plugins  - deleting either had no effect. What should their directory look like - both eleetions call for differentially named dlls on C:/TMP, but I think the names are created on the spot. No use searching for missing dlls.

Regards,

Hans

Dear Marsel,

then Max crashes at startup without an error message. Tried to then repair max, but that just installs the statesets.dll again - and max crashes with warning again, Seems to me each time I do this, the file missiong in the C:\TMP folder has a different name...

Regards,

Hans