Kangaroo Rhino 5

I cannot get Kangaroo to install in Rhino 5.

Is it possible? If so, what is the trick?

Thanks,

Aaron

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by taz on March 9, 2012 at 7:11pm

In Grasshopper:

File > Special Folders > Components Folder

Copy + Paste the "GH_Kangaroo0080.gha" and "KangarooLib0080.dll" files

-----

For each of the files:

Right-Click > Properties > Security > Toggle "Unblock"

-----

Restart Rhino (maybe?) after completion. That's it!

Permalink Reply by Hannes Lechner on November 5, 2012 at 3:58am

:/ still not working here...

Everything is working fine in Rhino4, but in Rhino5, Grasshopper is somehow unable to load Kangaroo properly.

As far as you can judge it, everything works fine, except the (most important) "KangarooPhysics"-Box.

Any ideas?

Permalink Reply by Daniel Piker on November 5, 2012 at 5:41am

Hi Hannes,

Not sure what could be causing this. Which versions of GH/Rhino5 are you using ?

Do you get any error messages on starting GH ?

Permalink Reply by Hannes Lechner on November 5, 2012 at 5:49am

Thanks Daniel for the quick reply!

I'm using the Rhino version from 09/27/2012 and GH 0.9.0014.

The message is that:

Permalink Reply by Daniel Piker on November 6, 2012 at 8:14am

So it seems it is not correctly finding the location of the dll. I'm not exactly sure why, but I've tried rebuilding with some different settings. Can you try placing the attached file in your Components folder (and making sure it is unblocked). Anyway, I'm hoping to maybe have an installer for the next version that should make this easier.

Attachments:

KangarooLib.dll, 39 KB

Permalink Reply by Hannes Lechner on November 7, 2012 at 1:14am

Thank you a lot, but it's still not working :(I can't explain it... but don't waste too much time. It works fine with Rhino4 and I can kangaroo my things there ;)

Permalink Reply by Anders Holden Deleuran on November 14, 2012 at 6:49am

I just installed the Rhino 5 Evaluation version on a freshly formatted laptop today. After installing Kangaroo per the instructions provided by Taz and adding/unblocking the KangarooLib.dll I am experiencing the same errors as reported by Hannes.

Seeing as how Rhino 4 is now no longer supported this now is a bit of a problem. Hope to see an updated solution soon. Happy hunting :)

Permalink Reply by Anders Holden Deleuran on November 21, 2012 at 2:43pm

After a bit of fiddling about I think I've tracked down what went wrong here. In my case I noticed that performing the "unblocking" of the files wouldn't stick, hence the .dll wouldn't load properly. It turns out that my Windows user account security clearance was the culprit here. To fix this I simple went "Properties -> Security tab -> Change permissions to "Allow" for all the check boxes under your user name". I did this on all three files, but one could probably set this for the entire folder as well I suspect. Hope this will work for you as well Hannes :)

Permalink Reply by Hannes Lechner on November 22, 2012 at 1:45am

unfortunatly not :(

Permalink Reply by Jonatan Schumacher on January 16, 2013 at 2:18pm

Thank you taz!

I initially had the same error messages as described by Hannes. Unblocking the GHA and DLL files did the trick for me with 'GH_Kangaroo0080.gha'. I tested both Rhino 5x64 and x86 on Windows 7, and it works. Interestingly, it did not work for Kangaroo 0.084, so I reverted back to 0.080 for now.

Permalink Reply by Aaron M. Ryan on November 22, 2012 at 12:11am

Well...I am having the same problems as the other posters here in this thread...everything is unblocked...new .dll is in Component folder and permissions are all set to 'Allow'...but no Kangaroo Component...all other components in the Kangaroo Suite are available.

Any further thoughts?

Aaron

Permalink Reply by Anders Holden Deleuran on November 22, 2012 at 1:54am

I'm afraid not! I had the exact same symptoms and loading error messages, so it stands to reason that the fix might be the same. I guess your files could potentially be caught by an antivirus screener or a firewall, but that makes little sense since they are not executables! The plot thickens..