Need help, NCSU FreePDK45, non-SKILL Pcell, not supported in Virtuoso

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I have installed NCSU FreePDK45 design kit for Cadence IC615 but have problem instantiating device layout with the following warning.
*WARNING* (DB-220704): The Pcell super master: NCSU_TechLib_FreePDK45/nmos_vtl/layout is not a SKILL super master. The usage of non-SKILL Pcells in Virtuoso is not a supported feature.

I can only see a white box with cross of the device instance in layout but when I open the layout view of the device itself, it is visible with correct metal layers.

I followed the Setup Files section of the following link to install the kit with correct paths:
https://www.eda.ncsu.edu/wiki/FreePDK45:Manual
and for P-Cells I have installed 64-bit PyCell Studio from Synopsys using instructions from the following link:
https://www.eda.ncsu.edu/wiki/FreePDK45:Using_P-Cells
 

When did this happen? I've used plain old, dumb old native
PCells in Virtuoso for many years.

But then I'm still on IC5.xxx - if this is a "feature" of IC6
then it's a good reason to pick another tool set. Say "no"
to forced obsolescence.

I wonder if anyone has a translator that turns regular old
native PCells into fancy code based ones.
 

The NCSU FreePDK45 is not Pcell, it's Pycell, that's why Virtuoso doesn't support, but I have already install the Pycell Studio, it's suppose to help Vitruoso to support the Pycell, but it doesn't work.
I don't know what happened, or something I did wrong.
 

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