LuxBlend25 and pylux on Ubuntu 64 - HELP!

[homer]

AFAIK the "Toggle System Console" entry in the help menu is only available on windows version of Blender.
On Linux/Mac simply start the blender executable from a console shell.

Most issues with pylux could be adressed with "ldd -r <path_to_pylux_so>/pylux.so"

[BrunoCornelsen]

OK, i tried via terminal but it opened the old version, 2.49b. I need to open 2.59.

I just need to access the folder where my Blender 2.59 is and type "blender" and press "Enter", right?

[SATtva]

Blender 2.5 is usually symlinked to blender-2.5, that's how you need to invoke it from console. Of course, only if it's properly installed in the system. Otherwise change working dir to the one where Blender 2.5 is untarred and run ./blender in there.

[BrunoCornelsen]

OK, got it. Nothing wrong with luxrender. It is giving the preview, but not with JPG format

[BrunoCornelsen]

I guess jpg is not supported yet. Thanks everybody for the help!

[Abel]

JPG should work like any other image format, it would be good to figure out what causes the problem as others might suffer from it too, now or in the future. The following information could be helpful:

-where did you get LuxRender? do you know the exact version you have?
-where did you get LuxBlend?
-which version of Blender do you have and how have you installed it?

-when using other image formats, do the textures work in the preview? if possible, please try png and tif
-have you tried different material preview shapes, like the sphere and the cube?

[SATtva]

Well, that's really odd. When the texture is set to JPG, and material preview is started, on the console it reports

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[Lux 2011-Aug-17 13:56:15] Rendering material preview: Material.001
[Lux 2011-Aug-17 13:56:15 ERROR : 4] Image unsupported

However JPG texture renders just fine once you start the normal rendering process. Other image types are correctly displayed both in preview and the normal rendering. Looks like something's wrong with pylux...

[BrunoCornelsen]

- Blender version 2.59.0 (39358)
- Luxrender I got from the official link: http://www.luxrender.net/release/luxren ... CL.tar.bz2
- Installed Luxblend 2.5 following these instructions: http://www.luxrender.net/wiki/LuxBlend_ ... structions
- PNG and JPG dont preview but renders
- Changing the preview shape dont work

[SATtva]

- Blender version 2.59.0 (39358)

Did you compiled it yourself or got binary from blender.org?

- Changing the preview shape dont work

That's ok, shapes aren't supported yet.

[BrunoCornelsen]

Got the build from Graphicall.org