Questions regarding installation of RealityServer and viewing 3D objects

[Watchman]

I've successfully installed Reality Server and Reality Designer, however, I'm not getting any graphics user interface from which to view objects exported from 3dsMax 2010 into Reality Server and rendered by Iray. I've got Reality Desiger installed inside 3dsMax 2010 and can view the Reality Designer icons tool bar or menu in Max with the export command visible. Can anyone give me a detailed step by step procedure on getting Reality Server up and running to the point where I can see my objects created in 3ds Max 2010 in the viewport window, or worldview window of Reality Server?

[johan]

Hi Watchman,

RealityServer is designed to serve web applications that you access using a normal browser, such as Firefox or IE. RealityServer does not come with a standard object viewer at this point, so you will have to create a viewer application yourself and deoploy it on RealityServer.

Luckily RealityDesigner makes this step very easy, and can create a viewer application for you directly from Autodesk Max and Maya. Please try these steps:

1. Install RealityServer, see RealityServer documentation.

2. Start RealityServer by calling the "realityserver" bat or batch script depending on OS located in the bin folder, for instance on linux:

<rs_install_dir>/bin/realityserver

3. Install RealityDesigner for Autodesk 3ds Max or Maya, see the RealityDesigner documentation. Don't forget to set the environment variable RD_HOME to point to the <rs_install_dir> folder, i.e. the one containing the "autodeks-max", "autodesk-maya", and "cmdline" folders.

4. Start Max or Maya and create/load your scene.

5. Select "Export Application" (3ds Max) or "Load a RealityDesigner Application Template" (Maya) in the RealityDesigner menu.

6. In the file browser that pops up, open the file multiview_ws.xml located here:

<rd_install_dir>/autodesk-max/examples/templates/

Replace autodesk-max with autodesk-maya if you are using maya.

7. After opening this application template file, a new dialog will pop up. Click on the "Export To" button.

8. In the file browser that pops up, select the <rs_install_dir> folder, i.e. the top level folder of the RealityServer installation directory. This directory contains the "bin" and "applications" folders among others.

9. Leave all the rest of the settings at their defaults and click on the "Export" button.

10. This will create a new RealityServer web application here:

<rs_install_dir>/applications/multiview_ws

To view this web appliaction, browse to the following address:

http://localhost:8080/multiview_ws/

Replace localhost with the name of the server if installed on another host. Also, depending on how you installed RealityServer, the port might be different. Another standard port for RS is 9091.

10. This will bring up a flash application that gives you three views of the object you exported, one perspective view and two orthogonal views. Click and drag in the perspective view to orbit, and control the camera in the orthogonal views.

Hope this is what you were looking for, let me know if anything is unclear.

Also, note that a new version of RealityDesigner has just been released. It has some bug fixes, but most importantly it has been updated to produce scenes compatible with the RealityServer iray renderer. Get it here:

http://www.mentalimages.com/products...downloads.html

Regards,
Johan

[jozefdobos]

>> To view this web appliaction, browse to the following address:
>> http://localhost:8080/multiview_ws/

>> Replace localhost with the name of the server if installed on another host. Also, depending on how you installed RealityServer, the port might be different. Another standard port for RS is 9091.




So what do I do if I get page not available and log shows the following:
1.21 CPLG plug error: VirtualDirectory matched request for but failed to load: /manager/multiview_ws
1.22 API disk error: URL "/multiview_ws" connected to "127.0.0.1:53168": file "" has no file extension, cannot determine script language or file MIME type

The same happens when I try loading some of the bf examples that are present in the applications directory. I'm going to try the same on my linux box....

Update: linux is the same, for bf too. Any ideas what am I doing wrong?


Fix: there has to be a trailing slash after the name of the application, what a requirement!

[johan]

Hi jozefdobos,

Looks like you forgot the ending slash in your URL. The URL:

http://localhost:8080/multiview_ws

instructs RealityServer to get the file called multiview_ws. This URL:

http://localhost:8080/multiview_ws/

should work as intended. I have missed this one several times myself. scratching my head wondering what is wrong

Regards,
Johan