Lightwave 2019 and 2020 crashing when I hit Edit Mapping, and general issues

Benjamin_Schweighart · July 28, 2022, 11:12pm

Edit: This is on macOS Monterey (and Big Sur, co-worker’s). Everything works fine on the PC build of LW and Turbulence as far as I can tell.

Upgraded my OS because High Sierra was finally too old, and so I had to upgrade my Lightwave. Well I tried out some Turbulence and lo and behold builds 1416 and 1443 (the older and the latest) don’t work in Lightwave 2019 or LW 2020. It works in Lightwave 2015 though. Sadly Lightwave 2015 menus are all broken when you upgrade your Mac OS past High Sierra.

The issue: If you just calculate simple temperature and render it with the smoke shader, it’s black. If you map it temp to fire, it renders fire, but if you map temp to smoke it’s black. If you turn off illumination, it renders white smoke, but not with illumination.

If you click the Edit Mapping under the smoke shader tab, it instant crashes 100% of the time. It does it for me, it does it for a co-worker in Houston. It does it in LW 2019.0.3 and LW 2020.0.2. It does work in LW 2015 though, but like I said, 2015 no longer works in any OS past High Sierra.

I know lightwave is basically dead but I’m still supporting clients and animations so if it’s possible to have turbulence working that would be awesome.

Has anyone run into this issue at all? Is anyone successfully using turbulence in LW 2020? I’m going to do more digging, but my initial searches didn’t turn up anything. Thank you for any advice.

Ben

I’m not sure if this is helpful. Here is the Mac Crash report:

Translated Report (Full Report Below)

Process: Layout [23599]
Path: /Applications/NewTek/*/Layout.app/Contents/MacOS/Layout
Identifier: com.newtek.LightWave.Layout
Version: 2020.0.2 (2020.0.2)
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [1]
User ID: 503

Date/Time: 2022-07-28 19:27:50.2420 -0400
OS Version: macOS 12.5 (21G72)
Report Version: 12
Anonymous UUID: 00907B87-81DE-D7D5-2E64-271634D2FC48

Time Awake Since Boot: 280000 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Application Specific Information:
abort() called

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 2 libsystem_c.dylib 3 libwx_baseu-3.1.0.0.0.dylib 4 libwx_baseu-3.1.0.0.0.dylib 5 libwx_osx_cocoau_core-3.1.0.0.0.dylib 6 libwx_osx_cocoau_core-3.1.0.0.0.dylib 7 libwx_osx_cocoau_core-3.1.0.0.0.dylib 8 AppKit 9 QuartzCore 10 QuartzCore 11 QuartzCore 12 AppKit 13 AppKit 14 CoreFoundation 15 CoreFoundation 16 CoreFoundation 17 CoreFoundation 18 HIToolbox 19 HIToolbox 20 HIToolbox 21 AppKit 22 AppKit 23 libtools.2020.0.2.dylib 24 libtools.2020.0.2.dylib 25 Layout 26 Layout 27 dyld queue: com.apple.main-thread
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Thread 1:
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Thread 2:
0 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x7ff8170a2f48 start_wqthread + 0

Thread 3:: com.apple.NSEventThread
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x7ff81706a97a mach_msg_trap + 10
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2 CoreFoundation 0x7ff81716d560 __CFRunLoopServiceMachPort + 319
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Lots of thread stuff… not sure it’s helpful… skipping ahead…

Thread 91:
0 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x7ff8170a2f48 start_wqthread + 0

Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
rax: 0x0000000000000000 rbx: 0x000000010f964600 rcx: 0x00007ff7b807bca8 rdx: 0x0000000000000000
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rip: 0x00007ff81707100e rfl: 0x0000000000000246 cr2: 0x000000013725f59c

Logical CPU: 0
Error Code: 0x02000148
Trap Number: 133

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lardbros · August 8, 2022, 10:19am

I’m still using the PC version, so not sure if this helps, but I’m successfully using Tfd on LW 2020, but there are a few problems with it.

The smoke colour gradient doesn’t work at all, this has to be disabled, and just use the colour swatch instead. Also, smoke thickness needs to be bumped up to even see any smoke.
On PC though, it doesn’t crash when I go to Edit the Smoke Mappings though, but have you tried removing the smoke colour gradient, to see if this helps a little?

Benjamin_Schweighart · August 8, 2022, 3:05pm

No, I’m not sure how you disable the smoke color gradient. Usually I go to Render > Smoke Shader > Mapping and apply temperature to the Smoke Channel. Then I hit Edit Mapping and clip off just the edge the simulation on the nearly 0° temp. So 1 to 1 and 0 to 0.001. That makes it render SO much faster. But that’s when it all worked, not it won’t render any smoke with temperature mapped to the smoke shader. It’s just a bug, probably with newer Mac OS. On the PC it works pretty normal from what I’ve tested.

Now for the color gradient, I don’t usually deviate the color. But I assume you mean in Render > Smoke Shader > Color & Opacity - Smoke Color and checking off the [T]?

I tried unchecking it and the smoke still doesn’t show up. It renders an alpha, but no visible smoke. I also tried hitting Edit Mapping after unchecking the T, but it crashes still.

I have a feeling he’s focused on the new software coming out and bug fixes are probably on pause or something. This is obviously a large bug that makes the software pretty useless unless there is a workaround I haven’t found yet, like maybe mapping something else other than temp.

Hopefully he has the bandwidth to address it someday. I emailed the support email, so maybe they at least know about the issue.

I"ll plan to use it on the PC for the meantime.

lardbros · August 8, 2022, 4:02pm

How frustrating, bugs on PC and Mac side. I don’t think Jascha is planning on doing any further updates to tfd, but I do hope he reconsiders. Maybe if LW gets a new lease of life, he may reconsider??

Benjamin_Schweighart · August 8, 2022, 4:43pm

Ya, hopefully so, at least to fix the big issue, maybe not dig too deep into TFD for Lightwave considering it’s fate. I don’t want him to waste a ton of time, but it’d be nice for legacy use until the dust settles with his new software.

Ya, I’ve abandoned all hope for Lightwave to get sold to someone. Trying to move forward but it’s hard when you’re constantly working and not a lot of time for exploring and learning something new. I have a feeling it’ll be C4D for me, but I’m still on Lightwave pumping out work lol.

lardbros · August 8, 2022, 4:59pm

I’m still holding out hope and still enjoying using LightWave I use other things to get the work done, like Blender, Substance etc.
UE4 and LightWave work well together, so will continue until LightWave’s fate is sealed. The realtime fluid/smoke stuff in UE4 is pretty remarkable, considering it’s in a game engine