Beginner with a problem (other than being a beginner)

[TimRatliff]

Hi

I have just downloaded Lux version 0.5 with the 1.0 exporter (I think), managed to load into Blender on my Mac (Powermac G5 running OSX.4) and am receiving an error message when I attempt to render a very simple test scene.

error reads

"scene file parse error"

Log reads

2008-Nov-24 21:01:17 Severe error: (3) Unable to read scenefile 'Show'

Funny thing is, that it begins to render fine when I try on a blank scene with no destination path for the outputted file. Obviously I'm doing something extremely basic and fundamentally wrong, but I'm pretty new to 3D stuff so just don't have a clue what to look for or adjust. Has anyone got any suggestions please?

[lempour]

hi, welcome.

I assume when you try to render some of the testsuite scenes there is no issue -> luxrender launches and does the expected stuff, right?
I would stick to the "Unable to read scenefile 'Show'" message - you try to render file named "Show" but luxrender cannot find it. What happens when you open the scenefile directly from luxrender (or render with luxconsole?)
Are you using any spaces in the filename or the path?

regards,
lem

[Radiance]

Hey,

It could be because you have a whitespace " " in your directory or filename ?
This is a bug which got reported on linux too a few days ago.

Try renaming your file/directory.

Radiance

[TimRatliff]

Thanks guys

Tried opening my .blend file with luxrender although I suspect that wasn't what I was supposed to be doing because the file was greyed out?! need to look into rendering from console... just as an afterthought...is the 'show' part of the error message supposed to read as the actual file name?

I'm pretty sure that there aren't any breaks in my file name/path, but will double check anyway.

So is this problem something definately to do with the way I'm naming the file? in which case I presume the only thing I need make sure of is that I don't have any spaces?!

thanks again for your help...

[lempour]

Thanks guys

Tried opening my .blend file with luxrender although I suspect that wasn't what I was supposed to be doing because the file was greyed out?! need to look into rendering from console... just as an afterthought...is the 'show' part of the error message supposed to read as the actual file name?

I'm pretty sure that there aren't any breaks in my file name/path, but will double check anyway.

So is this problem something definately to do with the way I'm naming the file? in which case I presume the only thing I need make sure of is that I don't have any spaces?!

thanks again for your help...

Luxrender's scene files have the *.lxs suffix, so locate yours (generated by luxblend) and try to open it and render from luxrender' file menu.

[TimRatliff]

Got it working!!

Thanks guys, changed my destination from my file in Documents to the desktop and it has worked...thanks a lot for your help, this is going to be very useful!