dherr Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 Hi, I used the Vandermotten plug ins sinc years wit Paint.net. Now I bought a new PC, installed Paint.net 4.2.8. and the plug ins too. But the plugins doesn't work. What can I do? I need this effects of the plug ins! Regards- Dietrich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dherr Posted January 23, 2020 Author Share Posted January 23, 2020 Hi Welshblue, I'm using free version 4.2.8. (Final 4.208.7276.37737) and I used the install program of Vandermotten. The DLLs are in the Effects folder. The menue points of the effects are shown and I can use the dialogues to set options but at start nothing happens... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixey Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 Please try using the.exe option instead of the installer. Then close paint.net and restart. Quote How I made Jennifer & Halle in Paint.net My Gallery | My Deviant Art "Rescuing one animal may not change the world, but for that animal their world is changed forever!" anon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dherr Posted January 23, 2020 Author Share Posted January 23, 2020 Hi Pixey, thanks for your tipp. I only have this as files from Vandermotten. Look at picture And I do always the install.exe. Don't know which EXE you mean... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixey Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 Can you see the Plugins in the Effects Folder? Also, did you copy the .dll into the Effects Folder? Quote How I made Jennifer & Halle in Paint.net My Gallery | My Deviant Art "Rescuing one animal may not change the world, but for that animal their world is changed forever!" anon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IHaveNoName Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 (edited) It looks to me if dherr maybe hasn't unpacked the zip file first. The Vandermotten pack comes in a zip file which has to be unpacked before you can install it. Clicking on the zip file will usually just open it in Windows Explorer unless you have an integrated zip manager. That shows you the contents and you may not realise it is not actually unpacked. Anwendung is German for Application and that is how Windows Explorer describes files like that when you use it to view the contents of a zip file. The point is it is not unzipped. Use 7Zip or Windows built in unzipping tool to unpack it correctly to a new folder/desktop/wherever and then try running the installer.exe. The DLL can be anywhere on the PC but best to leave it where it is. Edited January 23, 2020 by IHaveNoName typo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixey Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 @IHaveNoName Surely he would have to unzip the pack in in order to get to the .exe, which he said he'd already used? Quote How I made Jennifer & Halle in Paint.net My Gallery | My Deviant Art "Rescuing one animal may not change the world, but for that animal their world is changed forever!" anon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toe_head2001 Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 Maybe you all missed this vital piece of information: 12 hours ago, dherr said: The menue points of the effects are shown and I can use the dialogues to set options but at start nothing happens... Clearly the plugins are installed. dherr's issue is something else. Quote My Gallery | My Plugin Pack Layman's Guide to CodeLab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IHaveNoName Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 (edited) The accompanying installer.dll was not unpacked when the main installer.exe was launched - perhaps that is the explanation as to why the plugins are in the Effects folder but not working. Nah, I was wrong - just tested it on a substituted in empty Effects folder and even if the installer was launched using Windows Explorer from inside the zipped file it still installs them correctly and they work*. Uninstall likewise. * All tested and function as intended (Win7 64bit PDN 4.1.5). So, agreed, dherrs' problem must be something else. But what? Win10 + newer PDN version? Somebody should check that in the same way. Edited January 24, 2020 by IHaveNoName Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dherr Posted January 25, 2020 Author Share Posted January 25, 2020 Dear friends, thank you very much for the tipps and ideas in this cause. Meanwhile I have deinstalled all, paint.net and the plugins, then reinstalled all and - it's working!!! I don't know why it now works but it's a delight! Have a nice weekend - Dietrich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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