dear forum,
we did some excercise on controlling particles/dynamics using expressions at school,
then when i open the .mb file from home,
click on the render option,
Error: Cannot use data of type no type in a scalar operation.
this error pops up and all i got was a blank window.
(the dropdown list at the top: maya software/ hardware/ mental ray
was the only thing there)
from this point on no matter what kind of file i open,
(whether its particle related or not)
the render option continues to be dead (blank window)
we've worked on other complicated files and this only happens when
i open the particular particle related file (3 files causing the problem so far)
the only way to solve it is to restart maya and not to touch those files.
if i try harder to solve the problem while the file was opened,
say reload the mayatomr plug-in, i get totally black render outputs
(if i dont touch anything and forget about the render options,
the render works fine, on the default preview quality.)
(edit: thats using the render current frame button in maya,
batch render gives black outputs)
the particles and dynamics behaves fine without any problems as they do at school.
the school and home computer both have maya 2008 installed,
im not sure about the sub versions and the mentalray version,
could these be causing the problem?
any help is appreciated because i really need to work from my home computer,
thank you for your time.