Failed to load BulletMayaPlugin

[James ZHAO]

First thanks for your great work guys!

I used the Updated-Dynamica-Bullet-2.71-MayaPlugin.zip (latest updated version by Erwin) and run the install.bat.
In this case I can not find bullet plugin in maya plugin manager at all.
So I changed the install.bat to from
xcopy /S /Y /C /I /h plug-ins\*.* "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2008\plug-ins"
to
xcopy /S /Y /C /I /h plug-ins\*.* "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2008\bin\plug-ins"
And now I can find BulletMayaPlugin option in maya plugin manager but when I checked "load", it alerts that "Error: cannot find the module" without detail information.

So could you please help me use this plugin, thanks in advance.

OS: Windows XP Home SP2 Simplified Chinese
Bullet: 2.71
Maya: 2008 200708022245 installed in the default location

[Erwin Coumans]

Thanks for the feedback.
Some dll's should be copied in the Maya/bin folder indeed:
glew32.dll
GLUT32.dll
msvcp80.dll
msvcr80.dll
and the other in the bin\plugins folder:
BulletMayaPlugin.dll

Can you try out the updated Dynamica plugin revision 3, and see if that works for you?

Has anyone experience writing an installer for a Maya plugin, such as Windows Installer .msi or NSIS http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page?
Thanks,
Erwin

By the way, if all this fails, you could try to to load the BulletMayaPlugin.dll in dependency walker (http://www.dependencywalker.com) and see what is missing (ignore MSJava.dll).

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C:\tempmaya2\MayaPlugin>xcopy /S /Y /C /I /h bin\*.* "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2008\bin"
bin\glew32.dll
bin\GLUT32.DLL
bin\msvcp80.dll
bin\msvcr80.dll
bin\plug-ins\BulletMayaPlugin.mll
5 File(s) copied
C:\tempmaya2\MayaPlugin>xcopy /S /Y /C /I  /h icons\*.* "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2008\icons"
icons\dynamica.xpm
icons\dynamicaCreateActiveBoxRB.xpm
icons\dynamicaCreateActiveBoxRBArray.xpm
icons\dynamicaCreateActiveHullRB.xpm
icons\dynamicaCreateActiveHullRBArray.xpm
icons\dynamicaCreateActiveMeshRB.xpm
icons\dynamicaCreateActiveMeshRBArray.xpm
icons\dynamicaCreateActivePlaneRB.xpm
icons\dynamicaCreateActivePlaneRBArray.xpm
icons\dynamicaCreateActiveRB.xpm
icons\dynamicaCreateActiveSphereRB.xpm
icons\dynamicaCreateActiveSphereRBArray.xpm
icons\dynamicaCreatePassiveBoxRB.xpm
icons\dynamicaCreatePassiveBoxRBArray.xpm
icons\dynamicaCreatePassiveHullRB.xpm
icons\dynamicaCreatePassiveHullRBArray.xpm
icons\dynamicaCreatePassiveMeshRB.xpm
icons\dynamicaCreatePassiveMeshRBArray.xpm
icons\dynamicaCreatePassivePlaneRB.xpm
icons\dynamicaCreatePassivePlaneRBArray.xpm
icons\dynamicaCreatePassiveRB.xpm
icons\dynamicaCreatePassiveSphereRB.xpm
icons\dynamicaCreatePassiveSphereRBArray.xpm
23 File(s) copied

C:\tempmaya2\MayaPlugin>xcopy /S /Y /C /I  /h mvl\*.* "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2008\mvl"
mvl\base.h
mvl\mat.h
mvl\quat.h
mvl\traits.h
mvl\util.h
mvl\vec.h
6 File(s) copied

C:\tempmaya2\MayaPlugin>xcopy /S /Y /C /I  /h scripts\*.* "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2008\scripts"
scripts\AEdCollisionShapeTemplate.mel
scripts\AEdRigidBodyArrayTemplate.mel
scripts\AEdRigidBodyTemplate.mel
scripts\AEdSolverTemplate.mel
scripts\dynamica.mel
scripts\dynamicaUI.mel
6 File(s) copied

[James ZHAO]

Thanks a lot Erwin. It works with your updated version. Cheers.