aescripts + aeplugins

clayton douglas · July 2018

seems to only want to install to cc2017....any work around?

Lloyd Alvarez · July 2018

clayton douglas said:

seems to only want to install to cc2017....any work around?

please open a support ticket

Lance Moody · August 2020

how does one tell what version one has installed?

Lloyd Alvarez · August 2020

Lance Moody said:

how does one tell what version one has installed?

Right click on the effect name in the Effect Controls panel and select About:

Wes Richardson · March 2021

I'm getting a "failed to load, please reinstall these plugins" error when opening AE 2020. Then when I try to apply the plugin I get the error: After Effects Error: Couldn't find main entry point for mettle-flux.aex .

Lloyd Alvarez · March 2021

Wes Richardson said:

I'm getting a "failed to load, please reinstall these plugins" error when opening AE 2020. Then when I try to apply the plugin I get the error: After Effects Error: Couldn't find main entry point for mettle-flux.aex .

please open a support ticket

Chris Bobotis · March 2021

Please try downloading and installing the latest builds from the 'My Downloads & Licenses' section in your user account.

We just fixed some issues. This should do it, if not please open a support ticket

Eduard Apetnakian · June 2021

Chris Bobotis said:

Please try downloading and installing the latest builds from the 'My Downloads & Licenses' section in your user account.

We just fixed some issues. This should do it, if not please open a support ticket

Hi, how can i get latest trial build? Same problem as described above. Want to try it out before buying as it is pretty expensive.

Lloyd Alvarez · June 2021

Eduard Apetnakian said:

Chris Bobotis said:

Please try downloading and installing the latest builds from the 'My Downloads & Licenses' section in your user account.

We just fixed some issues. This should do it, if not please open a support ticket

Hi, how can i get latest trial build? Same problem as described above. Want to try it out before buying as it is pretty expensive.

Click on the green TRY button: https://aescripts.com/mettle-flux/

Eduard Apetnakian · June 2021

Lloyd Alvarez said:

Eduard Apetnakian said:

Chris Bobotis said:

Please try downloading and installing the latest builds from the 'My Downloads & Licenses' section in your user account.

We just fixed some issues. This should do it, if not please open a support ticket

Hi, how can i get latest trial build? Same problem as described above. Want to try it out before buying as it is pretty expensive.

Click on the green TRY button: https://aescripts.com/mettle-flux/

That was first thing i've tried, but "failed to load, please reinstall these plugins" error appears.
Applying flux to solid gives me "Couldn't find main entry point for mettle-flux.aex (48::72)" and "invalid filter (25::3)" errors.
Windows 10 20H2, AE 2020 17.1.4, Ryzen 5800x / 3900x, GTX 1080 / RTX 2060 SUPER, nvidia studio drivers latest.

Lloyd Alvarez · June 2021

Eduard Apetnakian said:

Lloyd Alvarez said:

Eduard Apetnakian said:

Chris Bobotis said:

Please try downloading and installing the latest builds from the 'My Downloads & Licenses' section in your user account.

We just fixed some issues. This should do it, if not please open a support ticket

Hi, how can i get latest trial build? Same problem as described above. Want to try it out before buying as it is pretty expensive.

Click on the green TRY button: https://aescripts.com/mettle-flux/

That was first thing i've tried, but "failed to load, please reinstall these plugins" error appears.
Applying flux to solid gives me "Couldn't find main entry point for mettle-flux.aex (48::72)" and "invalid filter (25::3)" errors.
Windows 10 20H2, AE 2020 17.1.4, Ryzen 5800x / 3900x, GTX 1080 / RTX 2060 SUPER, nvidia studio drivers latest.

please open a support ticket

weird core · July 2021

i'm trying to install the TRIAL, but on install i get error message "error opening file for writting: c:program...."

& when i launch it in AE, the plugin loads but an error message comes up = 'error: can' initialise Mettle OpenCL Manager"

so can't try the TRY version,,,, not a good start...

Lloyd Alvarez · July 2021

weird core said:

i'm trying to install the TRIAL, but on install i get error message "error opening file for writting: c:program...."
& when i launch it in AE, the plugin loads but an error message comes up = 'error: can' initialise Mettle OpenCL Manager"
so can't try the TRY version,,,, not a good start...

Please open a support ticket: hhttps://aescripts.com/contact/?product_id=1262&direct=1

weird core · July 2021

weird core said:

i'm trying to install the TRIAL, but on install i get error message "error opening file for writting: c:program...."
& when i launch it in AE, the plugin loads but an error message comes up = 'error: can' initialise Mettle OpenCL Manager"
so can't try the TRY version,,,, not a good start...

also i have Mantra, that seems to work fine, not sure why FLux is not even installing

Joshua Mosher · April 2022

I am gonna give a buyer beware on this one. I have tried to get the latest version to work on both my PC and my newly purchased M1 Macbook pro.

1 minute 4K 30FPS comp. Load any preset from the dropdown menu. Animate with keyframes on any axis. You can scrub the timeline but the moment you hit spacebar to see it in motion it will hang the whole application . This behavior is now on 2 separate OSs. If you attempt to render it without a preview its a 50/50 on success. Older versions do work but are not available through official channels. Support gave me a run around. PS: the demo here is still broken as it throws errors and they know it. The saving grace is aescripts excellent refund policy.

PC 1 Specs

Ryzen 9 3900x

128 GB Ram

RTX 3070TI

1 TB cache drive

Macbook Pro M1 Pro 14 inch

10 CPU 16 GPU 16 GB Unified Memory running Rosetta After Effects as no Apple Silicon update for the Addon exists.

Lloyd Alvarez · April 2022

Joshua Mosher said:

I am gonna give a buyer beware on this one. I have tried to get the latest version to work on both my PC and my newly purchased M1 Macbook pro.
1 minute 4K 30FPS comp. Load any preset from the dropdown menu. Animate with keyframes on any axis. You can scrub the timeline but the moment you hit spacebar to see it in motion it will hang the whole application . This behavior is now on 2 separate OSs. If you attempt to render it without a preview its a 50/50 on success. Older versions do work but are not available through official channels. Support gave me a run around. PS: the demo here is still broken as it throws errors and they know it. The saving grace is aescripts excellent refund policy.

PC 1 Specs
Ryzen 9 3900x
128 GB Ram
RTX 3070TI
1 TB cache drive

Macbook Pro M1 Pro 14 inch

10 CPU 16 GPU 16 GB Unified Memory running Rosetta After Effects as no Apple Silicon update for the Addon exists.

Sorry it didnt work out for you but yes, we guarantee your satisfaction, sorry it was a refund and not a working plugin but there's lots of edge cases out there that can't all be solved unfortunately.

Filippo Marchetti · April 2022

Hello.

Is there any plan to update the mettle suite to the recently released Apple Silicon version of After Effects (22.3)?

Thank you very much.

Joshua Mosher · April 2022

Lloyd Alvarez said:

Joshua Mosher said:

I am gonna give a buyer beware on this one. I have tried to get the latest version to work on both my PC and my newly purchased M1 Macbook pro.
1 minute 4K 30FPS comp. Load any preset from the dropdown menu. Animate with keyframes on any axis. You can scrub the timeline but the moment you hit spacebar to see it in motion it will hang the whole application . This behavior is now on 2 separate OSs. If you attempt to render it without a preview its a 50/50 on success. Older versions do work but are not available through official channels. Support gave me a run around. PS: the demo here is still broken as it throws errors and they know it. The saving grace is aescripts excellent refund policy.

PC 1 Specs
Ryzen 9 3900x
128 GB Ram
RTX 3070TI
1 TB cache drive

Macbook Pro M1 Pro 14 inch

10 CPU 16 GPU 16 GB Unified Memory running Rosetta After Effects as no Apple Silicon update for the Addon exists.

Sorry it didnt work out for you but yes, we guarantee your satisfaction, sorry it was a refund and not a working plugin but there's lots of edge cases out there that can't all be solved unfortunately.

While I can understand "edge case" if it was only one PC. I have now taken the demo / release to 5 separate machines . 4 Windows 10 1 Macbook Pro using Rossetta with clean installs of everything. Not a single one can render previews or a final product. I really like what I saw of this software trying out the 2018 edition enough that I took off my peg leg to support the developer. Something is very wrong with the way this plugin handles rendering animation since MFR support was added. Hell I would have been happy to get a old version that I knew worked.

Chris Bobotis · April 2022

Joshua, thanks for the kind words about Flux - it really is wonderful. We are working with engineering to try create a non "MFR" (Multi Frame Rendering) build for cases like yours.

No excuses but I have not had any other reports like yours to date. Nonetheless, we are taking this seriously.

Thanks for your patience.
Chris

John Franklin · September 2022

I originally bought Flux about a year ago. After using the AEscripts plugin manager to install the plugin, I always received the error "plugin failed to load" in any version of After Effects. 2020, 2021, 2022.

The workaround I was given was to go to the Mettle website and download the 1.0 version of the plugin. This version does load and does work.

I just tried again with the latest update for Flux and it's the same issue. The plugin does not load.

Windows 10 - up to date as possible.
Creative Cloud - up to date as possible.

There's no way this is only happening to a couple of people.

Lloyd Alvarez · September 2022

John Franklin said:

I originally bought Flux about a year ago. After using the AEscripts plugin manager to install the plugin, I always received the error "plugin failed to load" in any version of After Effects. 2020, 2021, 2022.
The workaround I was given was to go to the Mettle website and download the 1.0 version of the plugin. This version does load and does work.

I just tried again with the latest update for Flux and it's the same issue. The plugin does not load.

Windows 10 - up to date as possible.
Creative Cloud - up to date as possible.

There's no way this is only happening to a couple of people.

Please open a support ticket: https://aescripts.com/contact/?product_id=1262&direct=1

Joshua Mosher · September 2022

John Franklin said:

I originally bought Flux about a year ago. After using the AEscripts plugin manager to install the plugin, I always received the error "plugin failed to load" in any version of After Effects. 2020, 2021, 2022.
The workaround I was given was to go to the Mettle website and download the 1.0 version of the plugin. This version does load and does work.

I just tried again with the latest update for Flux and it's the same issue. The plugin does not load.

Windows 10 - up to date as possible.
Creative Cloud - up to date as possible.

There's no way this is only happening to a couple of people.

It boils down to at this point that any version provided to AE Scripts is broken. You have to go to their hidden download page on their site to get the working file for the most up to date version. This has been a known issue for awhile and they said it was going to be fixed awhile ago. If you go to their website and add /dld it will give you access to the most recent installers that work.

Lloyd Alvarez · September 2022

Joshua Mosher said:

John Franklin said:

I originally bought Flux about a year ago. After using the AEscripts plugin manager to install the plugin, I always received the error "plugin failed to load" in any version of After Effects. 2020, 2021, 2022.
The workaround I was given was to go to the Mettle website and download the 1.0 version of the plugin. This version does load and does work.

I just tried again with the latest update for Flux and it's the same issue. The plugin does not load.

Windows 10 - up to date as possible.
Creative Cloud - up to date as possible.

There's no way this is only happening to a couple of people.

It boils down to at this point that any version provided to AE Scripts is broken. You have to go to their hidden download page on their site to get the working file for the most up to date version. This has been a known issue for awhile and they said it was going to be fixed awhile ago. If you go to their website and add /dld it will give you access to the most recent installers that work.

Please open a support ticket: https://aescripts.com/contact/?product_id=1262&direct=1

Lance Moody · October 2022

This does not currently work with AE2023. I opened a ticket here and was directed to open a ticket with Mettle--which was sort of diappointing.

Joshua Mosher · October 2022

Lance Moody said:

This does not currently work with AE2023. I opened a ticket here and was directed to open a ticket with Mettle--which was sort of diappointing.

Can confirm not working at all after AE 2023 Update.

Lance Moody · October 2022

Received word from Mettle that new version is now available. Flux is working now.

Chris Lee · August 2023

Getting error message "Plugin failed to load" on AE 2023 startup. Appears to be the same issue on 2022. Submitted a job ticket

Robert Kruh · September 2023

This plugin does not work! I asking for help but no answer

Be careful

Chris Bobotis · September 2023

Please download again from here and install again Let us know if it works now

Joshua Mosher · October 2023

Installer no longer works with AE 2024. Looks like Adobe changed where plugins are supposed to go and broke alot of them.

Adam Trotman · October 2023

Yet another paid for, expensive, plugin not working in AE 2024

Adam Trotman · October 2023

Joshua Mosher said:

Installer no longer works with AE 2024. Looks like Adobe changed where plugins are supposed to go and broke alot of them.

YES I AGREE JOSHUA

Lloyd Alvarez · October 2023

Adam Trotman said:

Yet another paid for, expensive, plugin not working in AE 2024

Just copy the plugin files from your previous version

Joshua Mosher · October 2023

Lloyd Alvarez said:

Adam Trotman said:

Yet another paid for, expensive, plugin not working in AE 2024

Just copy the plugin files from your previous version

I would be all for that working but Mettle does not want that to work as their installers put files in like 4 different places that all point to the creative cloud folder which Adobe no longer supports. So until the installer and mettle authinticator which handle your license for all their products are fixed we cannot use it in AE 2024

Nancy Eperjesy · October 2023

We are working on the new installers. Thanks for your patience!

Joshua Mosher · December 2023

Nancy Eperjesy said:

We are working on the new installers. Thanks for your patience!

Do we have a ETA? Did not think installers were month long updates to repackage.

Joshua Mosher · February 13

Lance Moody said:

Good Lord! In October these guys said they were working new installers. Then crickets. This developer should be removed from AE Scripts.

Bout to start taking bets on if AE2025 will drop before they give us a update. I was gonna pick up their other products but not with this level of support. I have patience but 4 months I am willing to bet it's their own DRM stopping the update because the guy who wrote it is likely gone and they cant work with Adobe's new file structure.

Lloyd Alvarez · February 13

Joshua Mosher said:

Lance Moody said:

Good Lord! In October these guys said they were working new installers. Then crickets. This developer should be removed from AE Scripts.

Bout to start taking bets on if AE2025 will drop before they give us a update. I was gonna pick up their other products but not with this level of support. I have patience but 4 months I am willing to bet it's their own DRM stopping the update because the guy who wrote it is likely gone and they cant work with Adobe's new file structure.

We agree that it is taking longer than it should and we are in talks with Mettle to try and assist them but they have not allowed us to do so unfortunately. In the meantime, I would recommend you consider Helium as an alternative.

Joshua Mosher · March 1

Working great here. Thanks to the Mettle team for getting this to us.

Lance Moody · March 8

Hmm... not working for me here.
Did you just do the normal install Joshua?

Ehren Addis · April 23

Is this product defunct? From reading the comments and no current AE support. Thanks.

Lloyd Alvarez · April 23

Ehren Addis said:

Is this product defunct? From reading the comments and no current AE support. Thanks.

No it is not defunct. If you need assistance please open a support ticket instead

Ehren Addis · April 26

Lloyd, Don't need assistance for something not purchased since there is no current installer available today. Sorry. I've moved on.

Lloyd Alvarez · April 27

Ehren Addis said:

Lloyd, Don't need assistance for something not purchased since there is no current installer available today. Sorry. I've moved on.

You can download it by clicking the "TRY" button on the product page: https://aescripts.com/mettle-flux/

Thomas Shaw · June 5

I am also using the older version. I have to install the new one. Thank you for the link.

Chris Bobotis · July 13

Please post links to work you have created with Flux. I would love to see what you do with it.

Chris

mettle.com

Jason Fletcher · October 4

I really love exploring Flux and then layering on some Deep Glow to really bring it to life. Here's the result of my experiments - https://www.jasonfletcher.info/vjloops/astral-mist.html

For anyone having issues getting the Flux plugin working (demo or purchased), for some reason the installer offered by aescripts is broken. Instead download the installer from the official website listed below. After that you can use the license key from aescripts to activate it.

https://www.mettle.com/dld/

Honestly just ignore the comments below saying that this plugin is broken. It works great and renders volumetric fractals amazingly fast.

Chris Bobotis · October 4

Hi Jason,

thank you for the kind words, here and directly to me via email, on your youtube post and on your website. Your VJ pack looks great and I am very happy to read that you enjoy using Flux as much as I do.

Like you, I was intrigued by Fractal Flames but I believed that I could do better than the implementations I saw in the past. Rendering time was one of the biggest drawbacks (back then) to working with Fractal Flames. Variety was another, I believe what I created in Mettle's Flux did wonders that way. It was my absolute pleasure to "imaginate" and develop Flux and to move Fractal Flames forward. I still create personal work using Flux and I thoroughy enjoy it.

Regardng "broken" installer on aescripts, you may be referring to an installer that did not install in AE 2024 (or previous versions). If yes, we have to recompile Flux and other Mettle products every time Adobe releases a new version because of the file structure and dependencies that we need to have Mettle products run at the speed they do.

Another cause for a "broken" installer could be incomplete or corrupt downloads.

So yes, in the event that the Aescripts or Mettle installers do not seem to work, then try downloading again from AEscripts and if you see the same issue then go to the Mettle website. Please report any "broken installers" to AEscripts tech support. Once you get an installer that is not "broken" then you should be able to install successfully. One thing that I should stress is that you should definitely reboot after an install.

Keep on Fluxing :-)

Cheers, Chris

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