LuxBlend v0.1 Alpha 7

[Radiance]

Ok here's another update.

I've removed (eg remarked all the buttons which weren't active.

keep in mind that this exporter only implement something like 1% of all the features of the engine
most of the scene file options are still hard coded.

Have fun.

I'll post some documentation tomorrow regarding how to use it and how to tune materials and how they're mapped
to the blender sliders. (if you want to figure it out have a look in the code, it's fairly straight forward and a bit like
indigo 0.6 and earlier exporters.)

gonna go sleep now, very, very tired

if you find any errors, be my guest to post updates here...

Greetz,
Radiance

[Tuxer]

Thank you! Works fine!

Small Win/Unix problem: Following lines uses backward slashes as a path separator and those don't work in Unix. I had to change those to forward slashes.

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   geom_filename = filepath + "\geom-" + filebase
   geom_pfilename = "geom-" + filebase

   mat_filename = filepath + "\mat-" + filebase
   mat_pfilename = "mat-" + filebase

Doesn't Windows accept also forward slashes as a path separator?

[pinko]

Tnx Radiance i try it as soon as possible!!!
Pinko.

[deadReaper]

yes please use os.path.join() like i said yesterday in the initial version thread.

good decision to remuve the unused Buttons

[scyguo]

nice, is't working - thanks Radiance!
some object, in my test scenes, render without textures (exr btw - thanks for tip) and on luxrenders conslole was message "Warning! degenerated uv in triangle mesh, discarding all UVs"

[thoro]

Hmm, strange - I tried the exporter on my Windows XP system and the exported files (geometry and material) lack extensions.

If I try to open the scene LuxRender crashes (even if I rename the geometry/material files and change the entries in my scene file).

Thorsten

[Radiance]

did you define a lightsource ?

leaving the 'env type' to 'none' and not using a mesh emitter results in a silent crash in rc1 (it's in the release notes).

the extension issue is weird, i'm using blender 2.43 on windows xp here and it seems to work fine...

EDIT: are you using any non-alphanumeric characters in your scene file name ?

greetz,
radiance

[Radiance]

scyguo,

i've had some problems with uv maps too,
the uv map exporting functionality in the current blender exporter is not very good,
there's still bugs in it...

I will try and solve these asap.

EDIT: it would be cool if we could get some bpython developers on board to give us a hand

greetz,
radiance

[thoro]

Hi radiance,

you are quick - and I am dumb . I used a spotlight - replaced it by an emitting mesh now and it works. Doing this I found the reason for the missing extensions: I had to save my Blender scene to get extensions from the exporter.

Preparing some tests now...

Thank you very much

Thorsten

[Radiance]

sweet, can't wait to see some work

be carefull with mesh emitters with large amount of faces (see the release notes)

greetz,
radiance