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Autodesk iPad Game Attempts to Make Engineering Fun | PadGadget

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via Autodesk iPad Game Attempts to Make Engineering Fun | PadGadget.

Tinkerbox is an entertaining physics app designed to spark the interest of teens and get them curious about mechanical engineering.

Tinkerbox requires players to get creative and think outside the box in order to solve a series of physics puzzles in Puzzle Mode. Players are presented with problems and must then insert parts, assemble systems, test their inventions and finally find out whether or not they were successful.

Think you’re ready to tackle something more advanced? Then get creative in Invent Mode and design your own systems. Creative something original, test your invention and then show it off to your friends.

Composite 2011 SAP: Error while initializing plugin libDLofxUi.dlmodule

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A customer reported that Composite crashed while loading libDLofxUi.dlmodule:

Error while initializing plugin: C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Composite 2011 Subscription Advantage Pack/plugins/libDLofxUi.dlmodule :

Before we could do any investigation, he emailed back to say that he found the problem: it was a conflict with Furnace 4.2. When he removed the Furnace ofx plugins from the system, Composite started without error.

I downloaded and installed Furnace 4.2 for Nuke, but I couldn’t repro the problem at first.

By default, Furnace 4.2 for Nuke installs in the folder C:\Program Files\Common Files\OFX\Nuke\Furnace_4.2_Nuke, and that doesn’t cause any problems for Composite.

However, I knew that Composite searches the following folders:

  • C:\Program Files\Common Files\OFX\Toxik
  • C:\Program Files\Common Files\OFX\Plugins
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\OFX\Plugins
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\OFX\Toxik

so I moved the contents of the Nuke\Furnace_4.2_Nuke folder into C:\Program Files\Common Files\OFX\Plugins, and Composite would not start, and in the logs I found this error:

00:00:48.17 [Fatal Error   ] [Messages       ] Error while initializing plugin: C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Composite 2011 Subscription Advantage Pack/plugins/libDLofxUi.dlmodule : Input srcColourSpace received null policy.

BTW, the Composite logs are in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Temp\toxik\logs.

The discussion in this AREA thread also mentions that OFX plugin conflicts do happen with Toxik/Composite. The error mentioned in the original post is a different libDLofxUi.dlmodule error:

Error while initializing plugin: C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Composite 2011 Subscription Advantage Pack/plugins/libDLofxUi.dlmodule : Assertion ‘_sortedPairs.find( defaultVal ) != _sortedPairs.end()’ failed..

PS – The shotgun approach to solving a Composite error like this is to rename the offending plugin file, so that it is no longer loaded.